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In the 33 years since I stopped waking up before dawn to catch a city bus to a school bus which then drove me 34 miles to the promised land, I have only recently processed the significance of the 900 days I spent hunting down equity.
Category: Character, For Further Study, Submission to Truth, Today's Post
I don’t know what I want my son to do for a living. People, “…bet he’s hoopin’ as soon as he can dribble” but why would I force him to do that? He seems athletic but maybe y’all can chime in as to whether or not 15-month olds demonstrate anomalous athleticism this early. Right about …
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Category: For Further Study, Skills, Submission to Truth
I listen to far more books than I read because I’m in the car so much. I’m wading through C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity and it’ll be worth three more reads at minimum before next year. Needless to say, something jumped out at me as he discussed how free will factors into our existence. In this …
Continue reading “WARM YOURSELF.”
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, For Further Study
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must end one life before we can enter into another.” – Anatole France, French Poet/Journalist/Novelist Departure is forced, volunteered and unforeseen. Change exhilarates while it alienates. But change isn’t change if you haven’t …
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Category: Bigger than Me, Character, For Further Study, Skills
There’s nothing more troubling than when elite public figures receive preferential treatment or conversely when they are ridiculed and berated because they’ve let down the expectations of a fan base. No one gets a pass from the human condition.
Category: Bigger than Me, Character, For Further Study
Anthony Robles is not amazing because he won a National Championship in wrestling for Arizona State University after posting a 36-0 season. He’s not even amazing because he did that despite being born with one leg. I heard him interviewed this morning on “The Herd” with Colin Cowherd and I found him amazing because he …
Continue reading “1 LEG 1 HEART”
Category: Character, For Further Study, Skills
Phil Jackson once was quoted as saying, “I gave it my body and mind but I have kept my soul.” I think the newly retired Lakers coach also said after Dallas swept his squad that he was kind of glad the season was over and only a man still possessing his soul could say that. …
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Category: Bigger than Me, For Further Study, Skills
