It’s time for me to spend a lot more time looking for housing, and a lot less time on this blog. Continue reading Shifting gears
Monthly Archives: March 2019
Keep the focus on you
(Originally published 09/15/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 06/25/14.)
Teddy is an old man. He wears a rosary around his neck, and never fails to “testify” in chapel. “I talk to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost every day,” he says. Every time there’s an altar call, he runs right up there to get born-again — again. Five times a week, he’ll do that.
He got barred out a year ago for selling someone oxycontin.
Friday night 09/07/12, he came back. He insists to everyone that he’s never been here before, and said he wants to get into the program.
Aside from those things, he hasn’t changed at all. Still all the same empty religious talk.
Sunday night he said he changed his mind about the program. They require you to sign over all your benefits, and he’s not willing to do that. That tells me you don’t want to get well.
I get bad feelings every time I see him.
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Sitting outside waiting to be let in, Wednesday 08/29/12 Fallon and a couple other guys I don’t like too much got into reminiscing about how this shelter used to be, years ago, before the renovation. This upset me.
Open heart
There is no truth without love.
Put differently, an open mind requires an open heart. Continue reading Open heart
Myanmar’s Buddhist bigots, etc.
Appeal
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“Thoughts and prayers” are just as important as cash!
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Loving the psychopath
Society’s worst actors aren’t necessarily beyond redemption. Continue reading Loving the psychopath
This Ancient Philosophy Is What We Desperately Need In Our Modern Lives
Another link from Brian Williard:
This Ancient Philosophy Is What We Desperately Need In Our Modern Lives
Growing up, all the word “Stoic” meant to me was keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of adversity.
Not until 1989, when I was taking the Synoptics course at St. Mary’s Seminary, did I learn — from Sean Freyne’s The World of the New Testament, which I highly recommend for many reasons — that there is a great deal more to it, including much to like.
Stoicism is a life of ordered joy.
As you read this article, please note the many similarities between the approach to life described there, and the things I have said here about presence.
Carolyn Gregoire also wrote the first article I mentioned about emotional intelligence, “How emotionally intelligent are you?”
And yet another link from Brian Williard:
Google’s ‘Jolly Good Fellow’ On The Power Of Emotional Intelligence
Looks like links to Carolyn Gregoire are becoming pretty common on this blog.
Don’t scoff at the headline. From the gentleman in question here, Chade-Meng Tan, comes another ringing endorsement of meditation and presence as I have discussed them. I note that the first exercise described in the article is tantamount to what I call prayer, and practically the same as I proposed in “You don’t need an invitation to love people.”
(Originally posted 2014-06-21.)
The Bogeyman
The fact that you’re afraid of it
doesn’t mean it exists.
This guy is a career criminal, and other news
(Originally published 06/15/13 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 06/18/14.)
3 Years Is Just Desserts for Man Who Refused to Pay Dinner Bill
No comment. Read the story.
Fatherhood programs teach men to be dads
This is a good thing. Many young men are eager to step up to the plate and, in these circumstances, overcome the disadvantages of their own background.
Give ’em a chance.
With exposure to babies, rodent dads’ brains, like moms’, become wired for nurture
We mammals aren’t reptiles.
Do you lie?
How do you feel when someone calls you a liar?
It’s best to assume people are honest — that they really believe what they say. You have no need to believe the same things, but you do best to believe they do. Continue reading Do you lie?
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