your face speaks

your lips are closed but your face still speaks, the message is clear for all to see, and you could not have chosen words that could compete, your lips are closed but your face still speaks…. your arms are crossed as if to say, this isn’t supposed to be this way, the challenge here that…

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meritocracy…….about as likely as nirvana

a beautiful thought that that we could someday be living in a ”meritocracy”…..but the truth of the matter is all systems are flawed and ”pigs get ribbons and hero’s get flogged” and if we are looking for fair then we best relocate, because it isn’t here……………here is distortion, anger and greed and the things that…

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leave a little room for doubt……..

after you think you have figured it out, i suggest you leave a little room for doubt…….the best minds would agree, you never quite get it totally…so you may have enough information to go ahead, but leave a little room for adjustments as you go on…… you are here and the solution is too, but…

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unconditional love…….

aspirations are ideals we aspire to achieve over time, but i have little faith i shall achieve unconditional love……except perhaps for God, and that may be pushing it………….perhaps one might best be equipped for such a feat at a distance, where the pain of misdirected acts lose some of their sting over time and distance,…

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you win…….and i didn’t lose

you win, because i defer to you, the things you said were far better than my excuse, so i capitulate and throw in the towel, but i may have learned a little, so i didn’t lose………..there are many ways to take things in your life, some don’t leave much room to decide, but most have…

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work not finished/ for Gill and Steve

not ready to go, you continue on, facing each day with a plan and a song, the one you hum as you carry on…………..the body fades, but not the man…..the man has come to terms, that life can best be lived one day at a time, and a simple completion of the trials of the…

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deontology

my theory of ethics that establishes a code of right and wrong actions is under constant attack by my unguarded will…..and i am forever reminding myself that flexibility is admirable in certain situations but not in core beliefs……if one doesn’t have basic tenants that form the foundation of their behavior, they are like a reed…

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fraud

least you think i am unaware, i profess the knowledge we both share……that on my best of days………………….i am a fraud…i share with You what you already know that much of what i do is show and in the closets of my mind therein resides my darker side, with demonstrates from time to time, i…

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sometimes i forget

sometimes i forget how good God is at being God, sounds funny but it’s true……..my humanity endows me with certain fears and apprehensions, my faith helps me to deal with those doubts so that they are dismissed when i recall how Good God is at being God……thanks Pop

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love isn’t blind, on the contrary

love isn’t blind, that would be stupidity, and a smear against ”true” love. true love is quite aware of what one is and of what one isn’t and chooses to love anyway. to be able to separate the bad from the good and accept the truth and dare to love anyway. love is conscious, not…

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