Uncategorized
-
What personal belongings do you hold most dear? Obviously, pictures would be among most treasured belongings. But only because of who is in the picture. So in that sense, it’s not really the picture I treasure, but the object in the picture and how that object made me feel at any particular time. I have…
-
How do you feel about cold weather? There is a time for everything under the sun, or the clouds, depending on the westher. What goes up must come down, and that includes the temperature. I live in an area with a mild climate, never too hot or too cold . Even with extreme weather of…
-
My best friend died over a month ago. I was with him at the end and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. As painful as it was to be present for his labored last breath, it would have haunted me to know he left this world alone. It would have been soul altering…
-
How do you balance work and home life? I was born in a time when the work and home life balance was found in the gender roles. My father went to work, sometimes holding down two or three jobs at a time, while my mother mother stayed home with their six children. With the divorce,…
-
When I was a child, we had a telephone that you could only use to talk. It sat on a desk near to where it was connected to the wall. You spoke into the handset and dialed the number from the base. We would say the phone is ringing. It had a bell. The same…
-
Everyday is someone’s birthday. Many someone’s. With a world population of nearly 8 billion people, one day has an average of nearly 22,000,000 birthdays. 22,000,000. That’s a lot of cake and ice cream. That would be like everyone in the entire state of Florida all having the same birthday. 22,000,000 million birthday cakes all lit…
-
I once told a friend of mine about how, when I was a young child, someone asked me my race in an indelicate way. “What are you?” he asked. “Filipino,” I answered. “What’s that?” he responded. After sharing this anecdote with my friend, she apologized for that experience. “I’m sorry that happened to you.” At…
-
By my own standards, I believe I have lived a long life. I am older than my mother ever got to be. I remain active, in mind, body, and spirit. I am at peace in my day to day life and occasionally will attempt an endeavor that challenges my view of the world I inhabit.…
-
Using someone’s skin color as a description is fine. Using someone’s skin color as a definition is racism. The benevolence of the one percenters isn’t benevolent at all. The acts are the mechanism by which they control the progress and direction of society as a whole. The most effective way an authoritarian maintains control is…
Ignite Life 