Blog Entries
This is a collection of prose entries, my thoughts and views on a WIDE variety of topics, more so than a daily/weekly “blog” of what’s going on in my life. Reading them in any sort of chronology is not really necessary unless it’s marked “Part 1” or something like that. Enjoy!
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#SOCS – “On your marks, get set, BAKE!”
“But Ben, you’ve had your starter kit since October 27. Why no bread yet?”
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On Why I Can’t “Church” Right Now
Yesterday I wrote about “rough drafts” – pieces and parts of articles in my inbox that are so emotionally raw to me and likely hurtful to people I love that I fear putting them out into the world.
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777 and counting…
Writing heals me. Writing gets my brain moving in the right direction. I FEEL BETTER when I write.
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Poetic License
But I learned – the very hard way – that if you never consider yourself, eventually you have nothing left with which to care for anyone else.
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#SOCS – I Met a Mutt on a Mitt, but Not on a Mat. A Bon Mot? I Think Not.
Read the title. Maybe a few times. That’s all I’m doing with the prompt today. I got nuthin’.
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Housewarming – 6:02 pm
I thought no one was going to show. I really did.
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happy place
If you know me, you know I DON’T SMILE LIKE THAT.
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Bagging ‘Murica – #SoCS
Well, I bagged it yesterday when I should have written (slept in gloriously – no regrets), so I’ll see if I can pull something out today.
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It’s a SIGN…
Or IS it a “sign” at all?
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Catching My Breath
I know, I know, my writing has been spotty (at best) for the last couple months. Ironically, this wordless patch hit me near the beginning of my favorite writing month, National Poetry Writing Month, in April. Two years ago, a friend encouraged me to try it, even though I’d never written poetry (or what I…
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What a Trip – #SoCS
Little things piled up. Thing which, under normal circumstances, would have rolled off my back, but they ALL. HAPPENED. AT. ONCE.
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See Where I Might Land – SoCS
The prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS) is: “let go.” Write about the first thing that comes to mind when you think “let go.” Enjoy! I’m about 36 hours late on my SoCS because, well, I just couldn’t “let go” yesterday. I had it SO firmly affixed in my mind what had to be…
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Enlarged Heart
Last night, my adopted son who bears my name met his paternal biological grandparents for the first time.
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Unwrapping the Gift of Wenceslas
I have to be honest; I’ve never liked this carol much.
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Into the Gray – #SoCS
These days, anyone who says the Bible is “crystal clear” on anything beyond “God is love” is immediately suspect in my mind.
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A Diagnosis is Not a Label – #SoCS
…here is where I take issue with how she eventually got to her place of peace. She (mistakenly, in my opinion) allows a diagnosis to become a label. She becomes afraid of her diagnosis because others are afraid of her diagnosis.
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Enjoying the Seasons
The writing will return.
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More Than Just a Pretty Face – #SoCS (NSFM)
When I saw the prompt for this week’s stream of consciousness, I literally laughed out loud.
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I AM NOT OK
Today (October 10) is World Mental Health Day. And I am not OK. Many around you are not OK. You may not be OK. But we live in a society where it is NOT OK to be “not OK”. We praise, reward, and seek to emulate those who portray “OK’ness” to the world at all…
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Some Missing Pieces Aren’t Meant to be Filled. – #SoCS
Here’s the truth: we’re all incomplete puzzles and will likely ALWAYS be incomplete, even if we finally get our shit together with healthy spirituality, quality therapy and/or the right medication. In fact, spirituality, therapy and meds just help us deal with the fact that we have missing pieces and (hopefully) stop us from trying to…
defying atrophy 