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A Long Way From Happiness

Salvation or, (if you prefer), meaning / purpose through the Ages has undergone multiple facelifts. From: The Catholic Church – Salvation through religious observance and good works, to The Protestant Reformation – Salvation through Grace alone, to Calvinism – Strenuous … Continue reading

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Throttling Happiness

Political discussion in recent years has retreated from a substantial, meaningful debate on civic and moral virtue to an entrenched academic exercise calculating market values. Going as far back as Confucius and Plato and as recently as Thomas Jefferson and … Continue reading

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Happiness – technically speaking

This is installment #3 of a sci-fi serial. Installment #1 was posted 1/23/21; appropriately a numerically-ordered palindrome. Follow the links forward from the last sentence and backward from the first sentence of each post. Of course we have the ships … Continue reading

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Happiness – Pastime

This is installment #2 of a sci-fi serial. Installment #1 was posted 1/23/21; appropriately a numerically-ordered palindrome. Follow the links forward from the last sentence and backward from the first sentence of each post. It has been just over four … Continue reading

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Popover Happiness

Early this week I spoke emotional truth; and I got in trouble for it. I declared to myself then that the rest of the week I was going to keep my mouth shut and make some popovers. I can’t remember … Continue reading

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