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  April 2022     1 year ago

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Creativity

In secondary school did your art teacher ever ask you to draw your demon?
This is not an abstract question. It is the first thing all mentors should introduce as an exercise to their students
The power of the earth over all human activity is the...

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Lay Down Your Weary Tune Lay Down

I never heard Bob Dylan sing ever with this much nakedness. With this much beauty.
No song of his could ever make me cry, the way this one did.
Sometimes, it's true, that the live recordings of Dylan surpass his studio works.
And the songs that...

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A Mind for Stories

The garden gnome followed the squirrel across the road thinking he was real. But then a car drove by and smashed his head and...
The child saw disapproval from their parents
... it's getting late and it's almost your...

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Philosophy's Use

Philosophy, the source for all human morality has been used by the prideful, by the haughty, and the arrogant. It's only usefulness is when it has made it beyond the scope of a mind exercise.
It got me thinking to when I learned of Socrates
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Poetry In All Her Forms Transcended

There is a poetry of life that transcends the written or oral traditions of poetry.
This poetry is in and is creation itself,
it is the life that lives outside of the head and
body.
Poems of those two traditions have been eclipsed by the look...

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Yeah I am glad you took something from this. I read within the short introduction to my pocket Bible that it can be used for leading someone to Salvation in Jesus. I am not quite what people would describe as being born again in the conventional sense, for me I am letting The Bible, since being away from it for some time, speak what God intends to communicate to me.
I hope for your spiritual life to grow in whatever path it takes.

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