Revisiting the supernatural because of The Men Who Stare at Goats; remembering the randomization of chapters in Still Whispers and the “coincidence” it caused; revisiting The Matrix and setting a goal at this milestone.
Confirming the energy necessary to generate interest in the glossy world; documenting my failure with a friend; remembering that actions always mean more than words and that each of us makes disciples every day whether we think we do or not.
Ponderments on belief: trying to figure out what to wear every Sunday; rehearsing the events of the discover of a 29 year-old woman who had been kidnapped at 11; thinking about a man who has lived with wild bears for twenty years and wondering what the garden of my heart would truly look like.
An update on the “beta” phase of That Fated Shore; the amazing de-gaggling of the Oshkosh air show; reporting on my personal progress going 21 days without complaining and a rememberance of the wonder of my life.
Blessing my daughter on her birthday; using wrist bands to remind yourself to stop complaining; examining some of the excuses to justify complaining and embarking on the 21 days change from AComplaintFreeWorld.org
Finding truth in an aging bumper sticker; examining passages in the Bible that speak of the war between the flesh and the spirit and exposing a basic tactic of the enemy.
Overviewing some of the explanations from the major schools of philosophy for the contentious battle that we fight with ourselves every day and contrasting them with what I believe about the flesh and the spirit
Doing my civic duty by examining the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by Sgt. James Crowley and the mechanisms involved.
Offering an update on the challenge of hitting the moment in the last few pages of That Fated Shore; remember the joy of raising my daughter; sad stories from watching parents; remembering and embracing the Divine Father.
Acknowledging the challenge in hitting the moment with That Fated Shore; reviewing the research on ape versus human mentality documented in the Nova episode, “Ape Genius”: apes having pool parties, apes “outperforming” children with a puzzle box and the wonder of the human thought synchronicity (i.e. the “triangle”) through the simple gesture of pointing.
