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Teaching Happiness
The greatest teachers are those duplicitous, conniving, manipulative individuals who do not know their self; who do not appear to have a clue. The greatest single teacher is my self. So much to learn; yet I don’t listen. Instead I … Continue reading
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Shortsighted Happiness
From pbs.org, 5/27/2022, reporting on the NRA convention in Texas last week: “Trump told the group that every school building should have a single point of entry, strong exterior fencing, metal detectors and hardened classroom doors and every school should … Continue reading
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Happiness, stretched…
Has our nation become one giant festering wound no longer capable of fighting off adulteration? When an infection attacks the body, the body sends white blood cells to the site, the white blood cells attack the infection and as they … Continue reading
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Happiness. What to do.
What to do? What to do? What depends on who. Where and when, depending on who, fall within what somewhere between constraint and freedom. Once at what, why is extraneous regardless of who. When who is empowered and when who … Continue reading
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Happiness. My God.
Substantial? Or essential? One’s choice. To be substantial is to cause or create. To be essential is to first struggle mightily with uncertainty. This is my God. God requires uncertainty. God demands that we question Her existence. God asks that … Continue reading
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