Category: Life
Lifestyle, People, Family, Relationships, Parenting, and Introspection according to how life be lifing.
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Our sight only allows us to see things within the world we’ve created in our minds In other words, experiences and interpretations shape perception. The older we get the harder we fight to protect those perceptions – think of how true the adage of old dog/new tricks. You can see the evidence in everything from…
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This morning, I thought about why we see less value in things given to us versus things we buy. Actually, I just thought about why I’m like that. I think the key is ownership. On my last trip to Alabama, my mom sent me off with a bag of yellow apples. I don’t remember what…
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Today, I needed to be reminded that I can’t rely on motivation. The power to get things done is in performing habits See on Pinterest
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I’m angry. Very, very angry. But I’m not violent. Today, I drove to South Carolina for a medical appointment that involved needles, lidocaine, epideral steroid, and a herniated vertibral disk. Don’t gasp. The steroid is a piece of cake in comparison to the radiofrequency ablation I used to get: 3 needles, 3 times as much…
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When one of the kids asks me to explain irony: When someone with Geico auto insurance has a claim, Geico sends an inspector to assess the damage and estimate the repair cost. These inspectors drive Geico branded white sedans Well, one Thursday morning in Georgia I saw one of those Geico branded sedans run a…
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To all my courteous friends be your wallets so kind to briskly pour into my cup and buy every book i write i want few things more in life than streams of adulation but i seek to pad my pockets nigh and spare meine Kinder Mississippi education
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This is a flashback to a FB post I made 16 Sep 2016 when I was active duty. I had been offered a more technical job in another unit. There were a lot of feels, but mostly relief. I was not happy being in charge of almost 20 other adults. In 2016, I wasn’t happy…
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The kids were not visibly sad when I let them go with their mom.
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The kids give me life. It would be so awesome if they could have a conversation with me. It’s so many years from now when they’ll understand all of this visitation and short phone calls. I’m not a patient man. I have to slowly watch the hours and days and weeks go by until my…
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I don’t have much to say except that it would be nice to have more time in the day In the military, I learned the value of time, but I seem to have resisted budgeting as well as I have money I recall calling time a currency waaay before that Timberlake movie I called time…
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Sometimes, I have some really, really Animal Kingdom thoughts. Today while swimming in morbid thoughts, I wondered if we put too much effort into separating ourselves from other animals. Not Superior I don’t think we’re Superior. In fact, based on our intentional failure to adapt in areas of human relations, natural resources control, and weeding…