February 2011
8 posts
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Micheal: I need your undivided attention!
Dwight: You couldn’t handle my undivided attention.
January 2011
15 posts
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Micheal: Why do you keep a diary?!
Dwight: ..To keep secrets from my computer.
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Micheal: You know, sometimes, to get perspective, I like to think about a spaceman on a star incredibly far away, and our problems don’t matter to him because we’re just a distant point of light. But, he feels sorry for me. Because he has an incredibly powerful microscope and he can see my face. ‘I’m okay!’ … No I’m not.
Dwight: Oh I framed animals before. I framed a raccoon for opening a christmas present. I framed a bear for eating out the trash.
Micheal: It seems awful mean. But I guess sometimes the end justifies the mean…
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Dwight: Babies are one of my many areas of expertise. Growing up, I performed my own circumcision.
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Andy: I’ll drop an ethics bomb on you. Would you steal bread to feed your family? BOOM!
Dwight: It’s a trick question. The bread is poisoned. Also, it’s not your real family. You have been cuckolded by a stronger, smarter male.
Fulfillment
Of what? Our selves? Or those who can’t do it on their own?
What is your destiny? What is it that speaks to your most authentic self? We live in a world of unbounded possibility. We live on a planet covered with unimaginable pain and immeasurable beauty.
What’s your place? What is your calling? Listen. Hear it, and go there. Fulfillment is not about your needs, it’s the needs...
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Shades of Gray
Generations unfold. Father to son. Mother to daughter. Where one leaves off, the other follows. Destined to repeat each other’s mistakes, each other’s triumphs. How do we see the world, if not through their lens? The same fears, the same desires. Do we see them as an example to follow or as a warning of what to avoid? Choosing to live as they have, simply because it’s what we...
The innocent suffer at the hands of wicked people. It’s senseless, it’s dark, it’s evil. Sometimes we remember the enormous amount of cruelty, hatred, evil, senseless violence that surrounds us in the world. It’s happening all the time. The past, present, and future are a lineage of suffering. The details are horrific. We remember, and we fall to our knees in sorrow and...
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Meditations from the mat
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” - The Talmud
Practice. Letting go. My identity is carved by the tenets onto which I hold and the habits which I renounce. I want peace. I want freedom. I must change.
Everyday I am a walking contradiction. A hypocrite, and perhaps this is the source of my confusion, anguish, jealousy.
I know...
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How to stop an exploding man
Where does it come from? This quest. This need to solve life’s mysteries when the simplest of questions can never be answered. Yet still we struggle to make a difference, to change the world, to dream of hope. Never knowing for certain who we will meet along the way. Who among the world of strangers will hold our hand, touch our hearts, and share the pain of trying.
So much struggle for...
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Genesis
Where does it come from? This quest, this need to solve life’s mysteries when the simplest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream?
Perhaps we’d be better off not looking at all. Not delving, not yearning. But that’s not human nature, not the human heart. That is not why we are here.
This quest, this need to solve...
There is good and there is evil. Right and wrong. Heroes and villains. And if we’re blessed with wisdom, then there are glimpses between the cracks of each where light streams through.
We wait in silence for these times, when sense can be made. When meaningless existence comes into focus. And our purpose presents itself. If we have the strength to be honest, then what we find there staring...