I told the truth I swear I did! But the truth is different now than when I was a kid I thought that truth was absolute Until that one truth got the boot Why did I first conflate the two- That to be sure, it must be true. When what is sure after all “I” … More A Poem: “Truth”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou Stories We all have them. We all love them. We all have heard them. We all seek more out whether we realize it or not. Stories further validate, help us to gain more knowledge, entertain us, sedate us with others … More Delicious Ambiguity
“Everything is an experiment.” ― Tibor Kalman “I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.” ― C.S. Lewis I used to ride my cruiser bicycle up the biggest hill my small town had, to get to the public library. … More …Processing…
**Trigger Warning** This post contains graphic recounting of sexual assault. “two types of survivors: the ones who did not die, and the ones who live. There will be those who will always remember and be the victim, and ones who just won’t. You have to go on, you have to learn, and you have to … More The night that changed it all
“Humans do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts … More My Kinsey Scale
“A great story is impossible to forget.” ― Adrienne Posey I heard this parable while living in China. It changed me forever. A traveler is moving to a new city, but does not know the way. He hires a guide to travel with him for a small fee. The traveler notices MANY things on his … More The Traveler and the Demons
“Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” ― Garrison Keillor *Disclaimer* If you are a … More God(s), Religion(s) & Me(s)
“Some of the smartest people there were also the most committed. Intelligence doesn’t make you less prone to taking on bad ideas, it just makes you better at defending them to other people and to yourself. Smart people can believe some truly ridiculous things, and then deploy all the reason and logic at their disposal … More Cult(s) and “strong” words
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ― Virginia Woolf “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” ― Mahatma Gandhi How long have you gone without eating? Can you imagine yourself in that state of … More Hungry
“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.” ― Veronica Roth What I live by, and do on my “weak-days,” until my “weak-ends.” (A summary) When life gets too complicated.I go simple. When a buffalo sees a storm coming. They walk towards it. … More “Weak-days.” “Weak-ends.”
“A Cleverly Named Blog” with Aubrey 