As I contemplate what Fathers’ Day means for me, there are two veins of thought. The first is being a son and the other is being a father. Reflections of being a son: I guess some would say that being…
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Fathers’ Day Reflections
Tagged with: behavior choices, Gratitude, hope, Love, parenting
Posted in hope, Life, love, parenthood, Self-reflection
Posted in hope, Life, love, parenthood, Self-reflection
The evolution of the Republican Party from Roosevelt to the present
WARNING: Conservative thinking voters please proceed with CAUTION: For those of you that are in support of the current Republican candidates, I suggest you STOP reading here and go on to some other enlightening reading. The following is my subjective…
Simple Arithmetic Logic regarding the Republican Senators’ refusal to consider a SCOTUS nomination.
I spent some time trying to comprehend the difficulty the Republican Senators are having in actually doing their constitutional obligation that they were elected to do regarding the “advise and consent” of a U.S. Supreme Court nominee. To me the…
Tagged with: behavior choices, enlightenment, Humble Service, humor, nonsense, understanding
Posted in Answers, Dogma, hate, Humor, Politics, Tolerance
Posted in Answers, Dogma, hate, Humor, Politics, Tolerance
Being a baseball fan, and living and dying with the New York Metropolitans (Mets)
When I was a little lad, my first memory of professional baseball was of the New York Yankees. They were the only professional baseball team in NYC because shortly before my long term memory became conscious to me, the…
Tagged with: baseball, behavior choices, Love, NY Mets, personal wares, questions about life, sports
Posted in Baseball, hope, love, Questions, Sports
Posted in Baseball, hope, love, Questions, Sports
Happy Birthday wherever you are…
Today is a day that has a timestamp in my memory and on my heart because it is the birthday of someone who, at one time, was very dear to me. This significant someone still owns a piece of my…
Tagged with: behavior choices, friendship, harmony, hope, letting go
Posted in Behavior, Friendship, Life, love, nostalgia, Prayer
Posted in Behavior, Friendship, Life, love, nostalgia, Prayer
National Love Note Day
Today (09/26/2015) is National Love Note day, which leads me to the question: How do you write a note that encompasses all that you love and know and encompasses the vastness of relationships that accumulate across many years and venues. …
Tagged with: behavior, behavior choices, community, enlightenment, friendship, Gratitude, harmony, hope, Love
Posted in Behavior, hope, Life, love
Posted in Behavior, hope, Life, love
Buddhist thinking applied to politics
I have a daily practice of reading inspirational materials at the start of each day. Recently I have been reading Buddhist offerings and many times I have wondered how the suggested behavior could be applied, and sometimes an offering strikes…
Evolving Relationships
This quote from T.S. Eliot’s play “The Cocktail Party” has stimulated my thinking for many of you with whom I have connected via Social Media. “We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our…
Tagged with: behavior, behavior choices, enlightenment, Facebook, friendship, hope, letting go
Posted in Answers, existentialism, Friendship, Life, nostalgia, Questions
Posted in Answers, existentialism, Friendship, Life, nostalgia, Questions
Flowers and roots
I have never done much gardening before. However, now that I am more engaged in my yard work and I embark upon the effort to upgrade our yard’s flower beds I have discovered fascinating roots. Where do they come from? …
I am a hypocritical heretic
I am a hypocritical heretic ensconced in the paradoxical problem of didactic diatribes. No matter what I write I am sure there will be notorious notions, contradicting comments, suspicious statements, piqued prejudices, erroneous eradications, indeterminate identities, misguided miscalculations, conflicting conclusions,…
Tagged with: behavior choices, community, enlightenment, hope, humor, ignorance, letting go
Posted in Answers, Behavior, Community, hope, Humor, Life, Questions, religion, Self-reflection, Spiritualism, Tolerance
Posted in Answers, Behavior, Community, hope, Humor, Life, Questions, religion, Self-reflection, Spiritualism, Tolerance
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