High as a kite, Low as a worm
152 November 8, 2023 There’s just over two weeks before my two-book launch. These are my fifth and sixth books on Amazon, but the first time I’ve had the nerve and strength to do some marketing. It’s truly a ‘Coming-out party’ for me. A really big deal. For the first time, I’m handing out invites to […]
Everyone’s not like me. Yeah! Darn!
153 November 15, 2023 As I’m beginning to share my last two books with people, something that I’ve rarely done with my first books, I’m noticing that it’s usually impossible to predict people’s reaction, unless I’ve talked with them before concerning similar topics. It’s natural that I would hope and even expect people who are close […]
J.D. and others: Please Get Your Lives Together
156 Nov. 29 I write this in reaction to my double book launch of yesterday, and the many who weren’t there to celebrate with us. J.D., I hope you don’t mind me using you as a way to focus on a reality that most of our culture share: […]
A Matter of Perspective: You Choose
158 Dec. 3, ’23 There are two lenses through which we view our existence. We are either worms or potential giants. In most of our experiences we are treated as the former. We are cogs in a wheel among innumerable other wheels. Our votes don’t really count. Conform. Don’t rock the boat. Don’t talk […]
The God of Bread or the God of the Sword – Which?
159 Dec. 4 We’re a complicated and inconsistent bunch. We want to be coddled and taken care of, yet we yearn for freedom and independence. We seek to control others even though we take offence when others do the same. Instinctively, we try to make God, however named, into our own image. Because we instinctively […]
The Underlying Truths of Christmas
160 Dec. 8, ’23 If you’ve followed my stuff, you know how I challenge tradition. I guess that’s my traditional way to find the truth. For all tradition was founded by truth. It may have not been an historical fact, but a Truth, never-the-less. Take our Christmas traditions. Are they based upon historical facts? Probably […]
A Miracle on Ford Street
160 Dec. 12, ’23 I’ve got to finish this and get it out. Before I change my mind. Again. I claim to be honest and sharing, yet I find it so easy to hide my deepest experiences and emotions. “I’m not a hypocrite,” I tell myself, “I’m just being careful. They probably wouldn’t understand.” […]
A Message To Churches from the Street
163 Dec. 16 On most Friday mornings from 11:30 to 12:30, you can find me at the corner of Wellington and Princess Streets here in Kingston, demonstrating with other members of the local chapter of ‘350’, one of the oldest international organizations, acting against Climate Change. In that hour I usually have about […]
What A Morning!
164 Dec. 17 9:51 Just awoke, trying to remember old words. Realized they didn’t matter. They were gone. But new ones were already there, bubbling up, wanting to get out. Get out of bed! Don’t waste this ‘what-ever-it-is’. It feels too […]
Thoughts on this Morning (edited and sent the next day)
165 Dec. 17, noonish This will probably be the second part of a 2-4-1, connected with what happened this morning. I wrote that earlier part pretty well as it happened, just correcting it a bit for clarification, for me as well as for others. I needed a while to mull it over. My […]
