“I never met a man I didn’t like.” — Will Rogers
Will Rogers must have had an exceptionally bright aura.
A tattoo is a permanent blemish.
Period.
(Originally posted 05/21/12 at Trojan Horse Productions.
Reposted 2014-02-26.)
Lesson 8: Words containing “ain”
Word list:
vain rain gain lain main pain gains pains mains
train brain rains pained gained vainer brains
trains rained trained trainer
train brain rains pained gained vainer brains
trains rained trained trainer
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The request of James and John, part 1
Social predation consumed more of Jesus’ energy than any other single issue. This comes to my attention lest my current ambitions for upward mobility leave me in a position to be tempted to look down on people.
For me, all my life until this writing, the foremost example of Jesus’ stance on this has been his response to the request of James and John.
Eggsactly right; and other news
Bookmarks:
The flap over eggs • Amanda Knox • Another child star meltdown
Child porn is not so simple • Promise for Parkinson’s • Bail is for the birds
Birth injury fund sought
Missouri AG challenges California egg law
This came up in Yahoo!’s “Trending Now,” and the search results included pages at newsmax.com and examiner.com. I had to search a bit to find an article at a REPUTABLE site. For everyone’s information, in general henceforth I will avoid clicking anything leading to newsmax OR examiner: the former is disreputable, and the latter generates too many ads … too many for me to cause y’all to have to deal with.
The new law, in short, seems to me to be good for everyone (read: humanity), and IMO though it’ll cost ’em money, Missouri has no reason to cluck.
Lesson 7: Words containing “ight”
Word list:
eight right fight light might night plight
height mighty nights flight eighty fright slight
lights rights rightly flighty nightly freight
lightly
height mighty nights flight eighty fright slight
lights rights rightly flighty nightly freight
lightly
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Sales pitch
Friday, November 3, 2017
This message is principally addressed to me, myself. After a couple weeks of doing pretty well at The Way of Peace, I’ve come again to a juncture where I seem to have tired of being happy, and am inclined to let go of this Way and return to, frankly, the way most people live.
Related: Learning curve
I may need to reason with myself, to persuade myself that self-management (1) is really worth the effort and (2) deserves to be a “First Thing” — a concern to be given priority, and to be held more important than other concerns.
A short route to agony
On one occasion sometime between 1983 and 1990 — I can recall where I was living, but not where I was working — I came home from work and became suicidal. I don’t recall the basis of my agony, but it almost certainly pertained to certain foibles of “the flesh” that my “spirit” seemed powerless to overcome.
A former student had left a cassette tape at my door that day, full of music he wanted to share with me, beginning with “Bad” by U2. I had a second floor apartment, and had sometimes heard this from the boom boxes of people who walked by outside; and I knew what effect it would have on me, particularly the opening section, with the bells. Given my state, for that reason I intentionally delayed playing it.
When I couldn’t bear the pain any more, I put it on, and was at once transported from the pit of despair into a place of perfect peace. I count this as a case of divine intervention: by means of that young man and that music, God saved my life.
Continue reading A short route to agony
Lesson 6: Words containing “aught,” “ought,” and “ere”
Word list:
caught taught naughty ought fought wrought soughtbought thought thoughts ere where there here mere
were
were
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Two Jews, three opinions
Ethnic differences don’t all need to be A Problem.
A certain woman has struggled for some years with alcoholism. I have followed her case because she’s close to me and because I am, after all, an alcoholic myself.
The Homeless Blogger 