Month: June 2026
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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance
I wonder whether kids are growing up too quickly nowadays; I waited until retirement to fully engage with what it meant to be alive, I think. But even now, my questions are personal; I can’t remember seriously canvassing others about Death except maybe late at night in university dorms after a few beers. I certainly…
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By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity…
I was never much of a skier; I could do the beginner slopes and even remain upright on the occasional mogul if I followed Girard’s coaxing, but I never enjoyed the challenge like many of my friends. Girard, however, gloried in dares whether on ski slopes or in his rather eclectic social life choices. He…
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Is it only in pardoning that we are pardoned?
The longer I live, the more emotional debts and the more decisions about perceived transgressions, I seem to accumulate. Some, undoubtedly I forget, but some still fester if I happen upon them again. I cannot always forgive; it is often easier merely to attempt to ignore rather than poking the hornet’s nest in my thoughts.…