An interesting life is a choice

Perhaps The Best One Of All

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Life today is awash in quotes, sayings, bromides, and any short take on the language. Some are dreamy wisps of the impossible or improbable. Others are commands that leave no doubt as to what we need to do to live well and die happy.

Some are as old as civilization while others are so new they are a near perfect match to our present condition. Some come from history’s greatest philosophers and leaders while others have been written by common folks able to give new thoughts a different twist.

Not only are they persuasive, they are everywhere — used as … Read the rest “Perhaps The Best One Of All”

The Immediacy Of Everything

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From minute to minute, day to day, and year to year, everything in the world is changing. What is alive is dying. What is new becomes older. What is already old will eventually disappear or change into a form alien to the original.

We react with a mix of shock and sadness as we become painfully aware that everyone and everything everywhere are no longer what they were, nor will they ever be again.

Everything on earth is slip-sliding its way down a seemingly endless one-way street to be replaced by the same or something different.

We become depressed as … Read the rest “The Immediacy Of Everything”