whoa! i read through the responses to yesterday’s post and find that i have totally misrepresented my friend josh. i’ve posted his response in full, because it deserves to be pulled out of the confines of its little javascript pop-up window and dragged out for the entire readership (of seven–hi mom!) to see and ponder. […]

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more violence in the middle east.
i’m not taking sides on this issue. there are serious grievances on both sides. but each act of violence, each death, only tears at the wounds and makes them deeper. they may, in time, heal on the surface, but the aches take generations to remove. in one of the […]

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aaron’s mom has joined the readership and is sharing her wisdom with us! i have arrived! this has got to fit into the definition of success somewhere. i know that aaron respects his mom a lot, and i respect aaron a lot, so i’m excited that a busy person like her can take the […]

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had lunch today with ken, kimberly, tracey, bdove and mr. hoang. it is always good to get together with my friends from rare. we talked just a bit about this site, and it’s good to know that at least seven more people than my mom visit this site on occasion. thanks, kimberly, for reporting on […]

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i had a nightmare last night–my son got lost on a camping trip. i ran around, shouting and screaming his name at the top of my lungs. we finally found him in the creek. as we lifted him out, he had a worn-out, sad grin on his face, but he was all right. i woke […]

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when i was in salt lake city a few years back, five little girls trapped themselves in the trunk of a car on a hot summer day and perished. what really troubles me is the timeline of events surrounding this horrible tragedy. the mother watching the children realized within a short period of time that […]

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i’ve gone for over 48 hours without posting. i spent at least seven of those hours prepping for a well-received sunday school lesson (gospel doctrine) on the history of the mormons in kirtland, ohio and the opening of the lds mission to england in 1837 by heber c kimball. the underlying message i tried to […]

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preface: this is a topic i’ve been thinking a lot about. i’m interested in your opinions on the definition of success and how to reach it. please add your views to this post. challenge my post if you dare!
what is success? i know how we usually define it–wealth/power/sex/fame. if i say that joe is […]

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man, there is so much i want to write, so much i want to post. the menus are finally up, but not much content yet. in the religion section (mouseover the “more” link to the left) i’ve added a “humanist manifesto” i wrote when i was thirteen, and for josh, i posted the story of […]

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i love finding words that set me on fire and fill me with light. my scripture is found everywhere: in a whitman poem, in the bhagavad gita, in a friend’s encouraging words, in beastie boys lyrics, and yes, even in the christian bible. yesterday ken posted the following, which is definitely worth sharing with everyone:
“buddhism […]

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