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Pondering

Ten Life Lessons From Doctor Who

are you my mummy?

I bought a new pair of shoes a couple weeks ago. They’ve been a tremendous help to my sanity. They’re just a pair of plain Converse sneakers to most people, but to me and a few of you, there is a special significance to this brand of shoes. Because Converse sneakers, like a bow tie, [...]

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Time and Money: A Parable

When I was ten years old, I fell into a small windfall of sorts. I had won a contest at school and was about to walk into a long summer with more cash than I ever had in my life. A whopping twenty dollars. Imagine that. I don’t recall what the contest was for, but [...]

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Being Out of Sync

Being synchronized has two connotations for me. First is what I imagine most people think of when they talk about being either in sync or out of sync: that is “synchronization.” It is, at least to me, a world of Newtonian clockworks, a vast system of gears, levers and pulleys that keep the world and [...]

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The Irrelevance of Television Culture

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What are your primary sources of news and information? I use several. Online, primarily, I use Twitter. I also subscribe by email to the RSS feeds of a handful of online publications. I’ll use Google News to dig into more information if I need it. On weekends, I will read a newspaper or magazine like [...]

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Why Being Single Sucks

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I fell in love last week. Her name is Julia. I discovered that she was on a dating website, and I actually considered logging on, creating an account, and paying a few bucks to find her. Yeah, seriously. And I don’t do “the dating thing”. So there I was, weighing my principals against this sudden [...]

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The World Wide Head

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You and I have something in common. Just by the fact that you are reading this, I know that you and I belong to a select minority of people in the world, estimated now at the beginning of 2011 to be 2 billion strong.  A large number, yes, and nearly a third of the world’s [...]

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Lest We Forget… The Madness

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On November 11th, 1918 at 11:11, a cease fire began in the War to End all Wars. It was not actually the end of the war. It was just a cease fire. The Great War, as it was called for a while, would not officially end until Germans signed Treaty of Versailles, on June 28th, [...]

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When in Doubt

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Sometimes we approach what appears to be a fork in the path ahead of us, but we are unable to determine what we should do. Perhaps we have not had enough time to consider the options, but need to act quickly. Perhaps we are caught up in something else and the whispers of the Spirit [...]

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Why Quotations Work So Damn Well

One of the interesting thing about social media is that after pictures and videos, the most widespread sharing seems to be, not original work, but quotes from other people, usually famous, dead and white. Now I don’t have an issue with quotations, not by any stretch of the imagination. They are philosophical and literary icons, [...]

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Moving Towards the Essential

As I’m writing this, I’m thinking of one person in particular who is at a crossroad in her life and has hinted that some advice may be of use to her.  So here it is: If you want to set out on your own in this world, if you dream of becoming an artist, a [...]

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