Category: Philosophy
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The Great Divide
I have been thinking a lot this week about how divided the country has become. (Actually, I was partly wondering if we have always been this way, but that omnipresent news and social media have made us more aware of it). That part doesn’t matter though. Here’s what I was thinking: Increasingly, we are being…
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Why is everyone so “judgy”???
What is it about people? It’s a strange question to have to ask – Why is everyone so “judgy”??? There probably as many reasons as there are “judgy” people. Ok, I have a confession to make. But first, I want to say that it infuriates me that what I am about to share would…
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How would you begin?
Random thought that has been kicking around inside of my head – “If you had to write your own story, how would you begin?” In other words, what would the first sentence of your autobiography be? I don’t know why this has suddenly become important to me. But it seems to be where my mind…
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Random Thoughts. A Mini-Autobiography
I had no idea that my random thoughts were going to turn into a mini-autobiography. If that’s not your thing, or not why you are here, feel free to pass over this one. Unfortunately, I need a bunch of background to support the thing that I have been thinking about. History time My parents split…
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Secrets
Trivia question: How many people can know a secret? Whatever you answered, you were probably wrong. Unless your answer was “1”. Because as soon as more than one person knows a secret, control has been lost and it is no longer a secret. So what? The same problem applies to conspiracies. The more people that…
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Moving Pictures
The title of this post, Moving Pictures, is kind of a play on words. My mom passed away a little over a year ago, and we have been slowly and intermittently dealing with her “stuff”. We had downsized her quite a bit before she moved in with us several years before, but the number of…
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Thoughts on Life
When I originally set up this site, I never intended it to contain my serious thoughts on life. I had a vision of sharing funny stories from my interactions with people – sort of a long form version of the kind of thing that I usually share on Facebook. Somehow, it never really got to…
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The world has gone crazy!
When I wrote my last post, I read through my older ones and realized that most of the thoughts that I have felt were worth sharing have been negative – here, here, here, etc. I swore that I would find something upbeat to write about. But in the intervening week or so, the world has…
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Sometimes, Eeyore doesn’t need you to help him find his tail.
Life lessons are hard. I have spent my whole life fixing things. It’s my superpower. Facing things that I can’t fix is a new experience for me, and I suspect that it’s a skill that I am going to need to perfect as I get older. This past spring, my mother fell and broke her…
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I don’t understand greed
I don’t understand greed. I really don’t. Well, I understand the definition – I just don’t understand the motivation. I get that we all want to maximize our return. That is natural. It’s when people want to maximize their return at the expense of others that I struggle with. I suppose that it has always been around…