a〝I believe that I do not have more concern and admiration for her than I love her and am under her spell. I often have to restrain myself forcibly from just quietly putting my arms around her and even-- I don't know ; it seems to me so natural that she could not misunderstand....
We would do well to remember the example of Jesus’s love and forgiveness instead of the hard, unmerciful wrath of an angry deity the next time we hear about a God who can’t forgive without someone first paying the price. If you and I can forgive without demanding payment, God certainl...
I’ve been readingLightning Strikingby Lenny Kaye (hat tip Alirio!), where each chapter goes deep into a specific music scene of the past. I was excited to find a spotify playlist that someone had made to go along with it, but it didn’t go deep enough. So when I was reading the...
We can feel that when we walk into a room, enter a club, or are near someone unhappy or hostile. It also emanates from the collective, our screens, and the TV. Social media also erodes empathy. It’s been said that lack of empathy is the real root of all evil. Additionally, a “...
I can almost imagine the warmth of the sunny spring day we picked and prepared the strawberries and rhubarb. If there is anything to console someone with the winter blues it’s a fresh homemade pie. The smell of the kitchen brightens even the dullest spirit. ...
Love what you guys have done. A massive step forward for IE and the web! I may even switch back to IE. Who knows. One question: What's with the cut-off back button? It looks out of place. Is it on purpose? Anonymous September 15, 2010 ...
I start the car and Anthony reaches over and turns the heat on full blast. Luckily I find a spot close to the front entrance of the church. I pull up to back in. "(You implied) too close to this other car," he tells me. "Someone dinged my Rover the other day and didn't ...
domain. And they had never had any contact with the computer science department. This was not a digital research area. When they first met us, and they saw, on the computer screen, someone breathing out, and a graph showing that breath, the peak of that breath, one of the...
memories. She had gone to a shopping mall, as she had so often with Ryan, a mall freak. A teen-aged boy was yelling, “Mom, Mom!” and, Jeanne says, “I thought I was going to faint. I thought someone was going to find me and not know who I was. I really had a downer. ...
My reaction to events is my story, but it involves details about someone else that i) I have a sense of privacy towards ii) I watch my tongue with personal information about other individuals, even if they are personally careless about what they reveal iii) I have some fear of revealing ...