Category: Musings
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The Bunny Song
Injustice thrives in the periphery and the blind spots and lukewarm ambivalence does just as much harm as a full-bodied kneel. So yeah, all I have are these 2,000 words and a VeggieTales analogy, but I’ll be damned if I’m not using those to say that what’s wrong is wrong.
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The Bible Tells Me So
This isn’t to say that the Bible can’t inform politics, but that more often in this country it is the political slants informing Biblical interpretation. To illustrate my frustrations and the danger of politicians weaponizing the Bible, I’d like to make the following point; democracy is unbiblical.
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The Heat Around the Corner
“When we ignore what we are feeling, we make ourselves incapable of understanding ‘why we are feeling’. It took that unexpected and uncontrollable overflow of emotion for me to be able to acknowledge the internal work that I had to do. At the root of that work lies the ability to temper expectations and accept…
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Small Birds
I saw Inside Out 2, a bird tried to take my pretzel, and anxiety connects them both. Here is my review of Pixar’s latest film and a few nuggets about anxiety that the afternoon left me with.
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The Opposite
Doing “the opposite” isn’t about being who you think you want to be, its about knowing your place in the situation and ignoring the instinct to be a passive participant.
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Demon Box
I’m so used to just turning the little demon over and seeing what it has to say the moment it clears its throat to speak that when I’m in that environment where that behavior is prohibited I feel it weighing on me.
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Anxiety Spike
Combine those two and you get a concoction for an emotional tsunami, all of the water being suddenly sucked out from under you just to come crashing torrentially down on you moments later.
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Tempered Steel
Each of us have critical points, times in our life where the transition from one stage to another occurs. There are times when we are broken, picked apart, separated, and either added or subtracted to. Rarely can we choose when the temperature rises or what elements are added; like the iron in this metaphor we…
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Labels
“I was confronted with the actual substance of myself and particularly with the value I have that I’ve lost touch with in wider circles. I was confronted with the fact that I’m not an amorphous Ditto, I’m a freakin’ Blastoise.”
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Today of All Days
There’s never a good time for nuisances and costly hiccups. Our usual response to that situation is “on today of all days”.
Collin Willis 