apples fall from trees

“I open my heart and send forth my energy of love and understanding to everyone who has made me suffer, to those who have destroyed much of my life and the lives of those I love. I know now that these people have themselves undergone a lot of suffering and that their hearts are overloaded […]

I shall begin in ernest.

I have investigated and found some reasonable followers and members of the Catholic Church. However, when the reasonable perspectives that are actually following Christ’s teachings are outliers few and far between, you do have to take a much closer look. Especially when the Church enables and cultivates Authoritarianism and Fascism. A crisis that took off […]

I don’t know anything anymore

violence, fanaticism, and dogmatism

With age, it is tempting to want to tell younger generations what it’s all about. I don’t think I feel this way, though. What I feel is that I wish I knew then, what I know now. Second best would have been to be able to go to my elders for advice and insight. To […]

As I was putting the desk together I needed to get a specific wrench from my toolbox. One of the feet was spinning and I couldn’t get it off to put the wheels on. I remembered that when I left home the first time, he and I put this toolbox together so I could fix […]