Monthly Archives: December 2023

Happiness: Fire & Ice

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To … Continue reading

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Happy Christmas fat man

Twas the week before Christmas, I’m searching my soul For rips and for tears and for fancies unwhole; I’m searching to understand common accord, In hopes that I find what I must have ignored; — My children were raised by … Continue reading

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Happiness. Four Minutes.

I am one of 8,078,859,508… 8,078,859,571… 8,078,859,601… 8,078,859,688… 8,078,859,762… 8,078,859,856… 8,078,859,937… 8,078,860,060… To increase the world population by five-hundred-fifty-two individual Humans, it took approximately four minutes with approximately one-hundred births for every forty-five deaths. All that drama (1,002 babies born, … Continue reading

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Raw, Ugly Happiness

This week I am reading “The Frozen Hours” from Jeff Shaara, a fictional account of the first months of the Korean War. About two-thirds of the way in, General Oliver P. Smith vows “to repair the raw, ugly stupidity that … Continue reading

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Happy Christmas Memories

Twas the light before darkness, when all through my head This word it escaped and that word it has fled; Intention’s been pushed and my thoughts thusly shoved, But still I remember how much I am loved; — My children … Continue reading

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