Archive for January, 2009
No, I’m not on vacation…
For those of you who keep checking Mead, sorry to not have written anything new lately…I will hopefully soon.
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Last Thursday night I slept for two hours, because I had seen a 10:45 p.m. showing of “The Wrestler” with a friend, came home and was going to write a few words just to get them off my chest, and those few words turned into 1008 words (I just counted). I went to bed at [...]
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Being a man of few words
Though I worked until nearly midnight last night and was dog tired, having got three hours of sleep the night before, I tossed for most of my six hours in the sack, trying not to wake my wife and thinking about that blasted NPR story on the “six-word memoir” that one of my Facebook friends posted.
I [...]
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Starting the year
Generosity is giving that which is most valuable. This holds true no matter what one’s worldview is. If giving away that value doesn’t affect the way we live, then it is not generosity. Yet through true generosity, authentic life change is possible, both in the giver and in the recipient.
In the Christian tradition, God establishes [...]
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