Iraq
After three years in Iraq (and three years worth of news and commentary on Iraq) I just had a new thought on the situation this morning. What would happen if we left Iraq now? I am not an advocate of…
Tag thoughts
Balance
In the past weeks I have been exploring my interests and finding out what I like to do with my time. It has been a nice discovery period. I now come back to a question I have had before –…
Time
I have noticed in many narratives how time seems not to flow but to jump and halt. It occurred to me today that real life is just the same. Sometimes you blink in May and find that it’s Christmas. Other…
Not My Will but Thine
I have been thinking about the prayer offered by the Savior in Gethsemane – specifically the plea “Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless, not as I will but as Thou wilt.” (Matthew 26:39; see…
Walking Blind
I spent much of last night awake and thinking about my current situation. It is not the unemployed factor that I was considering, but the repeated bouts of frustration and hope. Each time I get an interview I hope something…
What is “Me”?
As posted here, I lost my job yesterday. Naturally the people around me ask how I feel after that. I understand the question. This is one of those things that can be taken very hard. Thankfully I am completely at…
Social Scripts
Everybody has been a part of this little dialog: “How are you doing?” “Fine, how are you?” “I’m good, thanks.” “Glad to hear it.” And then both people go on about their day. The question is – what happens when…
Reprieve
Do you ever come to the end of a day and find that, although you intellectually know the structure of what you have done for the last few hours, you have no impression in your mind of what took place…
Stifled, Stiphled, Ctiphl’d
I have been struggling for some time now feeling that life did not allow for me to do the things that I would like to do. All I ask out of life is the opportunity to be a good father…
Blog, Journal, or Both
I am not new to blogging, but in some ways I am blogging from a new angle. On previous blogs I was posting enough to maintain three blogs and often posted multiple times each day. Since I have started this…