Fatigue is part of CLL. So is bone pain. So is a compromised immune system, night sweats, and a host of other maladies, some of which can be chalked up to CLL, and some simply exacerbated by being closer to sixty than to fifty. I have been too tired for too long, and had taken…
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. C.S. Lewis Superlatives have been on my mind a lot lately. No, not Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, as they actually fit the bill…
Plain old aggression is no longer enough. Now we have micro-aggression, or so I have learned. We are going to carry sensitivity to such heights we will soon be offending others by not being offended when they think we should. That would not be micro-aggression, but macro-aggression. I first heard of micro-aggression over the Harvard…
I appreciate the intentions behind the Bay Cities gun buy-back program as reported in the Breitbart News link below. http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/12/13/Bay-Cities-Hold-Handgun-Shotgun-Assault-Weapon-Buybacks-To-Commemorate-Sandy-Hook Now, before some of you begin to think about the foolishness of me looking at Breitbart, please close your open windows on Salon and Daily Kos. Good intentions don’t always produce good results. Sometimes good…
I just read that women’s rights activist and attorney Gloria Allred, representing three women who have accused Bill Cosby of being a sexual predator, has demanded that Cosby pay $100 million to her clients or waive the statute of limitations on civil lawsuits. Apparently, Ms. Allred would have Cosby agree to legal terms which she…
I have been unaware of too many things for too long. Or, maybe not. You’ll have to decide. Lately though, I have become aware of more things than I wanted to be aware of. I think I am tiring of the whole “Awareness” industry. Within the past few weeks, I have regretfully become aware of…
How many times will I write about this, I wonder? John Donne’s Meditation XVII never grows old, because the hopes, fears, and dreams of mankind never change. Donne tapped into something universal in all men. Donne tapped into a powerful essence in the hearts of all men. Today, we laid to rest a long-time friend.…
I am a real fan of the truth, when I can find it. I write about it a lot. It is as elusive as one of the free-range emus we have here in Kemper County, Mississippi. Earlier in this sleepless night I wrote about Seneca, the Roman Stoic philosopher and some his contemporaries and colleagues.…
I can hear them. Thump! Bumba-Bumba! Thump Thump! Bumba-Bumba! A-rap-a-rap-a-rap! Bumba! Thump! [repeat and increase in tempo] Hearing the drums is one thing, but the increasing tempo is mesmerizing, even paralyzing. I hear it ringing in my ears, my pulse matching the increase of the tempo. Last May, I got the message back from the…
The Book of Job is worthy of a lifetime of study, yet it is mysterious and unsearchable. For as surely as Job labored to understand the workings of the Divine, he failed. In his desire to comprehend, and declaring his own understanding, he only received unanswerable questions from God designed to illustrate for his benefit…
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