Reaction to Random Catalysts

I have been going through the grieving process over the loss of a friend, and what I commented in a Facebook Message I find fit disclose here. The words are not necessarily profound, but they do provide a perspective about that unpleasant process: Sometimes one can be too close to the grieving... Sign in to see full entry.

I was browsing through the magazine rack at the drugstore and saw the football magazines. Most of them were on the draft prospectus, but I saw also a football forecast magazine--no, not for this uncertain lockout season--but for 2010. That was when Brett Favre was all the rave. That forecast... Sign in to see full entry.

I customarily write this blog on a daily basis at night. However, last night, I was suffering so badly from a cold. Going to work yesterday was of questionable judgment. I took cold medicine, and I was so absolutely out of it. I just wanted to sleep. I did not have the mental energy to write any of... Sign in to see full entry.

Sports fans are an interesting breed. Some will come shirtless to a football game in January with body paint on them. I heard of one Vancouver Canucks fan who is flying all of the way from Afghanistan to watch one of the Stanley Cup games and turn around and fly back in not mare than a turn of a... Sign in to see full entry.

It greatly disappointed me in a book introduction to learn that renowned Norwegian author Knut Hamsun was a Nazi sympathizer. I decided to be brave and add the movie Hamsun to my Netflix queue. I just recently watched it. The movie, starring Max Von Sydow, was well done. I was won over once... Sign in to see full entry.

It is great the numerous perspectives available on the issues since the late 80s, when the Fairness Doctrine was revoked. The conservatives have stepped in and filled the vacuum in the niche of talk radio. There is now a television news network, Fox, that is to the right of the left-heavy others.... Sign in to see full entry.

A text message came to me that admittedly makes me uneasy but nonetheless one to which I feel some obligation to respond. I will not go into much detail here, but it is a heavy matter. I have mulled over the best possible ways to respond, but I must be careful not to be rash. It is important I sleep... Sign in to see full entry.

I must preface my geographical pronouncement observations with the realization that in some cases I may still have it wrong. So now I dip into my dip into my figurative canoe and go exploring. •I heard the national news mention the flooding that could hamper Pierre (Pee-air), South Dakota. The... Sign in to see full entry.

Today was my most unusual Memorial Day I can ever remember. I went to a couple of memorials. I was moved by a young boy who led us in the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance and by a tenderly powerful rendition of "God Bless America." My eyes were beginning to water, but my mind was not exclusively... Sign in to see full entry.

An acquaintance told me about a lecture she attended given by Rumi, some religious philosopher of Eastern thought. She told me from what she gleaned from the teacher was that everyone should just be who they were meant to be, not engage in the fight of trying to change themselves. That means that if... Sign in to see full entry.