Well, so far so good on the dopamine reset. Sort of. I started these resetting shenanigans late Sunday evening. Early Tuesday evening, I opened up the Instagram app to check messages. Yes, I know I’m supposed to be avoiding social media. But I set myself the rule that this means doom/scrolling and doesn’t include private …
So, long story short, I’m trying to get back to blogging again. Actually, I’m trying to get back to a lot of things. Contrary to popular belief, we are still in a pandemic. COVID numbers in OKC are rising, and my understanding is that it’s the same in most areas of the nation. No shocker, …
In Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler writes: …Kindness eases Change.Love quiets fear. …Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. …(T)hat makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God.…It’s a hard truth. Too hard for some people to take, but that doesn’t make it any less true. …
When I last left this blog, I was in the middle of Atheism for Lent, bleeding my thoughts onto the digital page as I processed everything I was reading, watching, listening to. I remember feeling as though I were in a good place in life. My writing was going well; we had recently gotten our …
So. Here’s the two-hour fireside tale in a two-minute summary: I was raised in and spent most of my adult life committed to a conservative Christian denomination. Outwardly, I always seemed fully committed to all of the faith practices the denomination taught; but inwardly, I was on a journey of questioning, doubting, experimenting, discarding, deconstructing, …
i have set you a place at my tablecome now, sitdon’t be shywe both know i’m quit of ignoring you you shudder with terrible lifeyour shackles clink and rattlethrow them offsee?i don’t tighten them anymore drag yourself across that lightless spacethrough the muck and the squalor i imposedcreep slink slither stompup the stairs i splintered …
First off, you know that feeling when you get an inner urge to revamp your blog but when you go to do it you find that you’ve forgotten your password and when you click “forgot password” WordPress decides heyyo we’re not gonna send you one so you end up locked out of your blog whilst …
My reading goal for 2019 was to equal or exceed my number of Books Read in 2018. I didn’t make the goal.But that’s okay.Because that’s just how life flows sometimes.Forward.Backward.Sideways.Pooling on the ground.Dripping through the cracks.Flowing up. And I flow with it. * = extra memorable and/or illuminating** = the author has been spying on …
