It appears to be more an opportunity to tear apart their own house. It also is a political tool. They were being used by the same system they thought they were fighting.
This city is very liberal. I look around me and see a lot of miserable people. It is recouping from rioting. Having lived here most my life, I have watched it fall from its former glory into a mess. I feel I share some responsibility. We have always been laidback, but in our good nature we...
My time in the city is proving interesting, to say the least. There is a recent acquaintance who I like. One morning he asked what I liked most about the devil, and I told him that I wasn't a student of the Bible. The truth is my understanding of the devil is that he hates you, with a...
I have a friend in town who I met while walking a patrol during the winter months. We cross paths from time to time in the city and talk for a bit. I see in her the potential of a beautiful person. Unfortunately she has problems, homelessness being just one of them. I sense that she is...
I have been following crypto. Last year I owned a stock in a company that mines Bitcoin. I paid .74 per share and sold it at a 30% profit (just over a dollar a share). It is now over $20.00 a share and had been over $46.00 a share. Imagine how I felt.
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I like to occasionally gamble on the market. We are talking hundreds, not thousands of dollars. So I have bought into the below stocks in recent days, and have gained maybe overall $15.00. I'm searching for others and am wondering if anyone else has a favorite penny stock or two or three...
Doing those things that make me happy.
I try to make the most of what I have, whether that be my morning walk to work or having a smoke on the front steps of the apartment building.
With each birth the world is recreated fresh and new.
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My neighbor has a puppy whose energy and enthusiasm brightens my day when he says "Hello."
I've spent a lifetime trying to define what is wrong with the World. At one point I thought a cold heart was the expectation. The opposite is true. What I understand is that...
I have no need for a substitute alter in my living room....
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The self-proclaimed...
Some say that silence is the canvas on which everything exists. For me this brings to mind the time I have spent sitting in nature and simply..."observed." To find quiet moments in life that allow us to simply appreciate seem more rare as we grow older.
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An alternative view is that everything we consider as "outside" is actually "inside" our conscious awareness. Even the body exists within the conscious being.
How do you feel about the above statements and what else might they imply?
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It's early morning...