Year: 2005
Surgery Updates
Posted on May 2, 2005 in Glands Health
Updates about my surgery will be posted here as comments for the next few days.
The Bare Butt Face Look
Posted on May 2, 2005 in Activity My Beard
Except for my moustache acting the part of ghost warden over the naked skin, it’s gone.
A Little Papistry
Posted on May 1, 2005 in Pontiff Watch
If the next pontiff takes the name “Dionysus II”, things could get very interesting.
Two to Four Hours of Being Terri Schiavo
Posted on May 1, 2005 in Activity Health
Sometimes it’s just healthy to be wicked.
The Three Presences
Posted on May 1, 2005 in Reflections Spirituality and Being
Everyone, I think, experiences three presences or senses of belonging. Actually I think the count is more than that, but throughout my life I have experienced three which pertain to my birth upon this world. All stem from the fact that I came into the world as a child and remain here composed of its substance and will, in time, lose my identity when I lose the sense of separation from the rest of the Universe. The coming to have an identity is birth and its loss death. The three presences upon which I meditate today are the literal, the practical, and the spiritual:
literal
I am one of two sons, two brothers
practical
I am an only child
spiritual
I am one of billions of children on this earth, a brother to all
How Republican am I?
Posted on May 1, 2005 in Quizzes
Nyah nyah Lauren! I’m more nonRepublican than you!
Why Fiction Doesn’t Sell
Posted on May 1, 2005 in Class Writing
I’ve seen a lot of better talent wasted (in both women and men) because they weren’t upper middle class and had to work for a living.
Needing to be caged
Posted on April 29, 2005 in Responsibility Sorrow & Regret
I see myself as adept at wrecking friendships. It was once said to me that “gentleness and kindness” would carry me a long ways. Good advice and I follow it, but I also realize that I have a parasitic personality about me.
In a sense, I am a stalker. I latch on to people and become obsessed with them. The only cure for this illness of mine is to break away and isolate myself — for their sake and for the sake of my sanity.
What brought me to this reflection were the words of K — who spoke of an disturbing, unrelenting dream — and the girl — who acquired an email stalker.
I’m not all that far from such obsessives except in this: I have said farewell to violence, farewell to invective, and farewell to surrendering to obsession. When I leave a girlfriend, I leave her forever. I do not haunt their love lifes, confront their new boyfriends (as one ex-boyfriend once did to me). Rather than hurt another person like this, I will direct all my fury, all my anger, all my hurt at my own heart. Why? Because I am a stalker and I must be caged.
Riding that Filisbuster
Posted on April 28, 2005 in Courage & Activism Secularism
I cannot agree with any Christian who buys into the myth that more religion in government is a good thing for the nation.
