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  • Admission of a lack of a Mission

    Admission of a lack of a Mission

    What is your mission?

    Mission I will define here as a strongly felt aim, ambition, or calling. I keep stumbling over the word calling.

    The calling has to come from within. The world is an unfair place and my mission is to make it a little fair and defend those with less resources than myself.

    I may get criticized for this but I see that mission in the eyes of humans and animals. I will harm neither.

    Come Clean

    The world could be a cruel place. People lean on religion as a crutch with little definitive action helping humanity.

    And I’m guilty of this as well. What’s happening in the United States is not that much different than Nazi Germany. And I have no fucking idea what to do.

    I lack a mission.

  • Sofa King Peaceful

    Sofa King Peaceful

    On many an evening
    we sit reading 
    me on the couch
    a cat or two and
    Luna our dog on
    my lap.

    My wife sits content doing crosswords or 
    lost in a book in
    a chair much different 
    than mine

    She is sleeping
    now and now
    I
    sit in her chair
    reading 
    because I rarely 
    venture here
    and it is a
    unfiltered completely 
    different view of
    this room where
    we both sit.

    I get it
  • The Empirical and the Empathetic

    The Empirical and the Empathetic

    What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

    The Math

    There are 8.2 billion people on this planet and between 109 and 110 billion who have died.

    Many people talk about this glorious afterlife, and I have no evidence either way. If our lifespan was only 50 years, the amount of people on this earth would be a more sustainable 5 billion.

    We might have a fighting chance against global warming. But then again that little blue dot many see as the center of the universe.

    I don’t endorse this, yet it is food for thought.

    This is my opinion

    I’m not pushing this opinion on anybody and you may have whatever religion you want. This is our life and there is no dress rehearsal. I don’t know what the afterlife holds, and in my opinion.

    Not much, but still I hold out hope.

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  • Take The Wrong Way Home

    Take The Wrong Way Home

    What could you do differently?

    Metaphors

    Soup

    The other day at book club I made a Vegan Pho that leaned toward chowder. I was asked for the recipe yet could not exactly produce it.

    I winged it and make it differently every time. I rarely do anything the same consistently. Yet the soup comes out consistently delicious every time.

    Art

    I honestly admit I’m not a great artist, but I still enjoy it. Right now I’ll concentrate on portraits. I enjoy drawing portraits, but I never do it consistently the same. I should measure, but I don’t imagine there’s a technique of where you should start. Life is about that spontaneity. At least mine is. I did buy a book on painting yesterday.

    Gift

    Last year I gave my son a cookbook for a gift. It was a cookbook I wrote. It had about 50 recipes in it. But they were partial recipes The recipes laid the foundation so he can go with whatever direction he wanted.

    Simple

    What colour colored pencil do you use? Was machen sie? Do you Walk to work or carry your lunch?

    Why Don’t You Drive?

     I rarely take the same way home. I don’t drive often. It probably drives my wife crazy.

    And it’s nice to do many things differently. It is a spice of life.