Friendship Is A Two-way Street

I’ve have not as yet put the story into print—the day I looked, without realizing it—a survivor of the horrible Japanese Bataan March and prison camp—dead in the eye and said for all to hear, “Well, the sooner people like you are dead, the better. I had sat and listened to a new-comer to the [...]

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Unwise Territory?

Last evening, while visiting Doubting Thomas’ blogsite, I had occasion to leave a reply to a comment I read from another visitor to the site, one who took umbrage with D T’s disbelief in angels. 
Because I have spent a good part of the past fifty-five years studying the best I could, the origins of religious faith, I [...]

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Ah, Memories! Another Gem To Share

If only all my memories amused me as much as the one I recalled last evening while relaxing in my lounge chair. Musette and Penny, in a rare moment of ‘togetherness’, shared the top of the small turntable to my right and Scamp, stretched and snoring beneath the raised foot rest, filled the room with an aura of contentment. I [...]

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I Am Not Without My Limits

Not long ago, one Sunday Evening, a few minutes after 60 Minutes aired, I walked out of the house of a long time friend, never to return. I’ll try to be brief. Though a few months younger, she has allowed herself to grow old without retaining, or acquiring, so much as one redeeming quality. With no other interest in anything other than a [...]

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It’s Got To Happen, Sometime

I intend to remain in my own little home for as long as I can do so, completely on my own and a burden to no one, friend or family, but I’ve lived life facing facts and reality for far too many years to avoid doing so now. I do not want to, like my former, ninety-six year old neighbor, be found [...]

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Sharing a Gem

It’s a bit late and, at this moment, I feel very much the old woman I am . . . tired. So, I’m going to cheat a little. I want to share wtih you a small gem of a poem I came across years ago. I tried in vain, from the first, to contact the author and tell [...]

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Title, Coming Up Later

I just came from visiting a blog that I know I’ll be returning to rather frequently. I sincerely trust that I am not commiting plagiarism by taking a few words from a comment one visitor left, and in which I see the making of a future essay. I paraphrase somewhat. This world is just a tiny speck of dust in an ever-expanding universe, [...]

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A Greeting Card, Never Sent

It happened again. Yesterday evening, May 15, 08, another well-meaning friend  sent me another Online greeting card in hopes of penetrating and dislodging my deeply seated conviction: if there is a God, I have not yet been presented any valid reason for believing so. The card was complete with gospel music, fantastic photos of nature’s glorious landscapes, Bible verses and [...]

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Sharing Minnie’s World

Tuesday Evening: 7:30 P.M. As a rule, at this time I’d be sitting in my lounge chair in the living room watching a half hour of Everybody Loves Raymond, followed by my favorite news commentor, Keith Oberman, but I’m growing weary of Raymond and I sure am weary of listening to nothing but the election campaign. I want to [...]

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Making Butter From Skim Milk?

I’m still in a rather argumentive state of being. I don’t like being told by email that I’m unlearned and incapable of understanding what should be, according to the sender, a plain understandable explanation proving that metaphysics can be used to prove the existence of God. I say it doesn’t. 
Just because I am as ignorant concerning metaphysics, [...]

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