Tag: life
member name: Bill's Spirit
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June 28, 2006 02:36 PM EDT --
I wasn't a soldier in a war, aid worker in the Sudan or caught up in a great natural disaster. The dramatic, traumatic and tragic things that happened to me in 1995 all came in on personal fronts. . . . more
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September 08, 2006 10:06 AM EDT --
A few days ago, in a comment, I think someone said I was a bully. I was shocked at first, but I can see where I might come across like that.
I often come-on strong.
And I'm sorry if you've been . . . more
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October 19, 2006 07:47 AM EDT --
It's almost midnight. I'm sitting in the dark, smoking Blend 27s, watching Great Expectations with the sound down too low to hear over the fan blowing in the window. Keeping things quiet so . . . more
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January 06, 2007 04:57 PM EST --
My grandfather had a story he liked to tell; about how he came to select music as his vocation.
I'd heard this story discussed a number of times during my childhood. It was one of the many things . . . more
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January 18, 2008 02:55 PM EST --
Last night, one of my eleven o'clock news programs told me how deadly substances had been found at a man's house in a town less than thirty miles from where I live.
Part of the video footage, . . . more
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July 26, 2006 12:06 PM EDT --
It was 1998. I was still struggling to recover from the tragic events of 1995. (My article: "I Survived 1995 - a personal journey ")
1996 had been a year of trying to push on in a world whose . . . more
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October 17, 2006 10:34 AM EDT --
There are three cartoon panels.
A man wearing an ecumenical collar is praying.
"Father, help me to truly see this world... not through my own eyes, but through your infinite all-encompassing love." . . . more
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February 23, 2007 02:25 PM EST --
We Americans hail ourselves as a Peace loving society, but we have dictates for acceptable occurrences of killing.
Rules for executing certain types of criminals, the equipping and maintaining of armed . . . more
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October 12, 2007 03:41 PM EDT --
Bay County Sheriff's Boot Camp Death Case
Talk about disturbing video. Watching half a dozen officer's of the law, restraining, then pummeling a fourteen year old boy, has me actually quivering . . . more
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April 04, 2008 04:27 PM EDT --
I don't remember where I was when I heard that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been killed.
I was but eight years-old.
My life at that time was filled with forest and meadow wanderings, . . . more
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April 16, 2008 11:17 AM EDT --
His Holiness The Pope is visiting America.
Apparently, this is only the third time that a pope has visited our blessed land.
Father Thomas Williams, CBS News Faith and Religion Analyst, stated . . . more
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April 24, 2006 07:16 AM EDT --
I resist authority. Idealistically, by nature and most importantly, by conditioning. An authority figure seriously betrayed my trust and loyalty when I was very, very young. That authority figure ordered . . . more
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May 13, 2006 02:12 PM EDT --
Between allergies, physical disabilities, low tolerance for tyrannical management and my own inner restlessness I have worked in over a hundred different facilities in America. I changed jobs an average . . . more
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August 11, 2006 11:30 AM EDT --
When you arrive at the airport go immediately to the restroom and disrobe. Place everything in your luggage, except for one credit card, then walk to the ticket counter and check-in all your bags.
With . . . more
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November 09, 2007 05:21 PM EST --
I find it morally painful that our government sub-contracts private soldiers at a thousand dollars per day, while dictating cuts in medical care and benefits to our soldiers and veterans.
Capitalism . . . more
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November 11, 2007 03:51 PM EST --
I am a veteran.
Among the cadre of my veteran brothers, I am truly one of the least of them.
I fought in no war, and soldiered in no combat zone. Although I qualified with rifle and was expert . . . more
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December 18, 2007 11:51 AM EST --
If anyone on your shopping list is locally and culturally active, or an avid NPR listener, or plays it socially conscious, or is a regular Stewart/Colbert watcher, or seems intellectually savvy in one . . . more
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March 29, 2006 09:45 AM EST --
Suitcase dreams
lose ground
to suitcase realities.
Moving, that is.
Last November
sugar-honey-love-muffin
and I
moved north
twenty miles or so
the last of our belongings
now demanding a journey
to a . . . more
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July 18, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
I had a chance to wander this morning.
Just off the north-eastern corner of Columbus's outer belt is a fantastic 121-acre park. Inniswood Metro Gardens.
I visited the Rose Garden this morning. It . . . more
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March 05, 2008 06:00 PM EST --
They say that proof of dedication to an ideology can be shown by pointing to sacrifices made in the name of that belief.
On March 4, 2008, I again paid the price necessary to maintain my status . . . more
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