“Women are the culture bearers” used to be a common saying in anthropology. Though the expression now seems quaint, it still contains a lot of truth.
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thoughts on life
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I pretty much lost my 20’s to depression. But I was nearly 30 before I found out what beset me in vicious cycles of abyss and functionality. It was the…
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The animal spotted me jogging up the path in the park. It stopped and turned about 100 meters ahead, and then again at 75 meters. It was the size and…
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The smaller of the two creeks, just beyond town (and soon to be enveloped by it), is running full and strong again after a few good storms. One almost forgets…
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It’s the third day of a new year, in the as yet to be determined lucky or unlucky number 2013. I’m not getting any traction, so I decide to sit…
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From inside, the day is uniformly gray and dreary, as another in a long series of storms off the Pacific discharges rain and wind in northern California. But on the…
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In the United States, nearly half of the population believes God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. The creationist view is crazy, but the mechanistic…
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I’m struck by how many people these days believe they can create their own reality, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It’s become a national pastime in narcissistic America, and…