For some reason that word admitting is one of the most difficult words for me to, well, admit. For me admitting has always been a negative word. I remember many times growing up when Mom and Dad would search for truth and that feeling of impending doom would be crippling. Even if I wasn’t to…
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I have determined that 2007 was an upside down year. I had no idea our stop in Wisconsin October of 2006 on the way to visit relatives was a premonition for the year to come, but there can be no doubt that 2007 for me was the beginning of undoing. Time has a funny way…
Read moreSurrender is not an option. To surrender is to admit defeat, and I will be damned if I will ever admit defeat. That was my position on just about everything until last Saturday. Stubborn? Me? I never really thought I was, but I could certainly always see stubborn from here. I looked at my position…
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In a never ending goal to completely confuse myself about all things cultural, I grabbed a book in the library about religion. I only read the preface, so I can’t recall the author, but I agreed with everything she had to say. I figured if I could agree with the preface, why ruin it by…
Read moreFrom the National Priorities Project Website:Proposed Total Federal Outlays, FY2008 The following pie chart illustrates proposed total federal spending for fiscal year 2008. Fiscal year 2008 runs from October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2008. The ‘national defense’ portion of the budget includes money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, if the wars…
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For my regular readers, or reader as it may be. 🙂 You may have noticed that every so often Davie gets all, you know “in his head” on a post or two. I feel an explanation is in order. I am a very complicated dude. For one, I am predominantly “right brained”. Basically, I think…
Read moreThere have been times in my life when a decision was made with little or no evidence to support that it would be sound. The ones that have mattered the most have had equal amounts of pro’s and con’s and sometimes the con’s outweighed the pro’s. Sensing a calling, destiny, fate, or God there have…
Read moreI hesitate to post about this. The simple reason is that posting about religion is an exercise in futility. Most people that know of what I speak are already turned off to the institution of the church, so this is a case of preaching to the choir. This is the oldest Gothic church in the…
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You know that feeling you get from time to time like you have been here before? Its like the soundtrack of life s l o w s d o w n for just a second revealing that life itself is out of sync? No? Me either. I wish! It used to happen so much when…
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I love flying. I used to have dreams as a child that I could jump and just keep floating all the way to the top of the house of my youth. The dreams were so real and vivid, I would have to convince myself that jumping out the second floor window would end in a…
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