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Category Archives: Longreads
This planet
I attended the funeral of a church member yesterday. Now my “designated” protestant affiliation is with the Presbyterian church but if you have spent anytime reading my blog you know that I also mix in my Kool-Aid some Universalism, Buddhism … Continue reading
Posted in Longreads, Thoughts
Tagged Air, Climate Change, Donald Trump, earth, environment, Environmental, extinction, Future, ocean, planet, pollution, Trump
11 Comments
Happy Anniversary to me
How time flies when, well, how time flies. I started this blog a year ago with this post, Waiting for Tomorrow which included the quote from John Burroughs – “The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is … Continue reading
Big personality
“I just want to get to the end of my personality and just lay in the sun.” – Carrie Fisher Carrie Fisher (RIP) was a big personality. Now part of her persona was a mental health issue with a dose of … Continue reading
Posted in discover wp, Life, Longreads, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged Big personality, Carrie Fisher, Characters, humans, People, persona, personality, Turned off, Turned On
9 Comments
Celebrate everyday like it’s your birthday
“They say it’s your birthday, It’s my birthday too, yeah, They say it’s your birthday, We’re gonna have a good time, I’m glad it’s your birthday, Happy birthday to you” – The Beatles “Birthday” Today is the celebration of my birth. I am pretty sure … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Longreads, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged Birthday, Celebrate, Celebration, Grateful, Happy, Living, Party, Thankful, thankfulness, The Beatles
11 Comments
The Chicken Truck
This is one of the chicken trucks that travels past my neighborhood ten to twenty times a day to the processing plant. It is a flatbed tractor-trailer stacked deep and wide with chickens headed for the slaughterhouse and then to … Continue reading
Posted in discover wp, Life, Longreads, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged Animals, chickens, Compassion, Creative Writing, grilling, Joy, Love, meat, Pets
15 Comments
Getting my ass kicked by a bug
Back in June I wrote a post called The balance of good vs. mosquitoes (evil). I wrote in this post that “More than one person has asked the question why mosquitoes live among us. I am sure some think they are simply a sadistic joke God … Continue reading
Posted in discover wp, Life, Longreads, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged Balance, Charleston, SC, Francis Marion National Forest, mosquitoes, Mountain Bikes, Nature, South Carolina
7 Comments
Finding our rhythm to dance too
“I’m trying to find a new rhythm in my life” – Fabian Cancellara Cycling, like any competitive sport, requires discipline and a plan. As a recreational cyclist, it is easy for me to look on, with envy, at that those men and women … Continue reading
Posted in discover wp, Life, Longreads, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged Creative Writing, Cycling, Cyclist, Fabian Cancellara, Journey, Living, rhythm, Zen
5 Comments
“Such a nasty woman”-Donald Trump
Let this sink in, “Such a nasty woman”. That is what Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton last night towards the end of the debate, “Such a nasty woman”. No matter what you think of Hillary Clinton and her fitness to be the President of … Continue reading
Posted in discover wp, Longreads, Thoughts
Tagged Clinton, Debate, Donald Trump, election, Hillary Clinton, Politics, President, Presidential Race, Such a nasty woman, Trump, women
13 Comments
Searching for our field of peace
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” – Jalaluddin Rumi When I can’t sleep at night, when my mind is … Continue reading
Posted in discover wp, Life, Longreads, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged dreams, forest, John Muir, Nature, Peace, Reflection, Rest, Rumi, Zen
8 Comments
The Endangered White Male
“In the popular culture of the ’40s and ’50s, white men were role models. They were the detectives and cops who ran down gangsters and the heroes who won World War II on the battlefields of Europe and in the … Continue reading
Posted in discover wp, Life, Longreads, Thoughts, Writing
Tagged Angry White Men, demographics, Donald Trump, Endangered White Male, Middle Age, Opinion, The Great White Hope, Trump, White Male
21 Comments