I have debated in my mind if I would do any more “updates.” Part of me wanted to wait until I had nothing but good news to share. None of us like to hear about bad news and those who “over-share” their struggles are quickly marginalized within our optimism-longing brains. I’m not a whinner. I…

I am still working on Part II related to my last posting. However, events of this week (the mass hate-murders) have upset me and distracted my thoughts. I posted something very similar to what I want to post today a few years ago, but I know that I have a totally different audience today and…

Note: I wrote most of this the day before the most recent hate crimes and this article does not mean to reflect that information in any way.  When I started this blog, I mentioned that I will use this same space for my medical updates under the title “Updates” and where I just put down…

I came to do a very brief update, as people are asking, and am stunned by the massacre in El Paso. I think of how hard I’ve struggled to stay alive this year, and here are these poor people who were going to Walmart to simply to buy school supplies and were gunned down, lives…

I’ve lost count of the books I’ve devoured over this past three months. I often have one or two audio books going at one time. I get mine through the Washington state libraries, and maybe it is my lack of expertise, but it is hard to find the good books. The classic novels are often…

With such a macabre heading, I must quickly state that this topic has nothing to do with me … almost. The only connection is that I find it a bit more comfortable talking about my own death and dying than I did 9 months ago, when the concept was so abstract that it was “out…

Today, I did my walk on the Tommy Thompson trail. My plan was to continue listening to my novel Detroit; An American Autopsy, by Charlie LeDuff. I use the term “novel” loosely, as it seems to start as a novel but becomes an accurate book of modern history, accented with presumably fictionalized background and foreground…

Returning to the Question of Value and Math While I was alluding to the complex mathematical equations earlier, now I want to down shift to the very basic mathematical equation, like you would encounter in elementary school, and that is finding the balance, from left to right, over an equals (=) sign. In the third…

Mathematics is the Native Language of God. I will take, what may seem like a strange sidebar to this conversation, but I think is an essential concept and the philosophical root to this discussion. I think I’ve said this before, but I am convinced that mathematics is the native language of God. All other texts,…

This is where I take a very simple thought and expand it into its philosophical roots, loosing most readers in the process. Now that’s not my intention, to lose people, or not to be clear. Sometimes we don’t resolve arguments because we abandon them too early without thinking them to their conclusion. I don’t mind…