Who could have imagined 2020 would be the year from hades?
Thankfully Food makes everything better!
(I’m moving these from FB, so they are in NO order that makes any sense at the moment).
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Quarantine Eats 2020
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Well
Looking deep into the well,
Down into the depth of time.
Layers and layers repeating,
History full of turmoil and despair.
Will we ever clear the waters?
Can the cycle ever end?
Deep drinks of oppression,
Can only be washed away,
With deep draughts of knowledge.
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Pain
The need for closeness overwhelms,
My soul is split in two.
I fight to find what I have lost,
To reunite what has been torn.
Pain is all that exists,
Deep, dark, and overwhelming.
My heart has given up on itself,
exiled to its own prison.
Someday I will heal,
Today there is only pain.
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Soul
Day by day, we all waste our life away.
How easy would it be to ignore that empty feeling,
To be caught up in the redundant, the mundane, the fruitless.
My heart was empty, but I had all I should,
Friends, family, and career.
Ever nagging was that hole, ever in my heart.
Oh a whim, I followed my heart to the forest,
I, instead, had found my soul.
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Brave? Nah….
Rachel Maddow is my platonic crush. I would gladly sit in a room and listen to her spew awesome all day. Recently she called out Senator Rand Paul for being a liar.
The Republicans are in the middle of their “minority outreach” program. The thought that it takes a concerted effort for them to reach out to minorities should be enough of a sign that they will probably fail at it. Why do they have to strategize on how to appeal to minorities? Maybe they should re-evaluate their “moral compass”. I think it’s stuck on “asshole”.
In any event, Maddow calls out Senator Paul in typical awesome fashion.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/vp/51500273
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Don’t be a dick.
I have a fairly diverse background, so I know many different types of people, from many different cultures, religions, and educational backgrounds. Not one group of people is perfect, or should ever claim to be “always right”. To do is is pure arrogance and ignorant. I have talked to conservatives that care deeply for other people. I know liberals that would criticize an entire religious group without regard. I’ve heard some Christians with a wonderful grasp of science, they are at the top of their fields and simply see science as another way to be closer to their God. I know atheists that treat their view of science with such a radical obsession they make the Taliban look moderate.
I am guilty of making as many judgmental remarks as anyone else, but at the end of the day I do not think that any group of people is absolutely right. I know that my views are not universally shared, and I’m always willing to have a good, vigorous conversation about them. Compromise is essential in many aspects of life, and it saddens me to see that many people are no longer capable of it. -
Happy New Years!
Time for a mushy New Years post. I do want to say that I am thankful for all of my friends and family. I’m thankful for people who call me out on my bullshit, and who keep me honest. This has been a great year of new opportunities and new friendships. I hope the following year is full of the same.
Time to move forward!
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Be nice to a stranger day
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/14/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elementary-school/?hpt=hp_t1
The news of the school shooting in Connecticut is heart breaking. Regardless of your political affiliation, do something nice for another person. Let’s heal this country by caring for each other again. Let’s get the mentally unstable access to decent, free healthcare. Let’s increase the waiting period for a gun. Let’s DO SOMETHING to help keep our children, and each other, safe.
