once again, i have decided to run a marathon.
i don’t think that i’m capable of embarking on any endeavor without taking the deep dive into it. it seems to me that a sane person who felt the need to exercise would just commit to so many minutes per day at the gym. not john remy, […]

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last week, i was walking along the sidewalk and noticed the deep green color of the juniper bushes to my left. i was caught up in the color, and my pace slowed until i was stopped beside the stand of evergreens, lost in their deep hue. for a few moments, i noticed nothing else–the world […]

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i’ll be the first to admit that president george w. bush and i don’t see eye to eye on most things. i’ve chewed him out a few times on this site. today, however, i’d like to praise the man.
president bush made a statement against anti-islamic remarks made in recent months by prominent members of the […]

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this is a sad, sad, day.
even in the best of times, and even when i’ve supported the dominant party (it’s been a while–i am currently neither a republican nor a democrat), i’ve always felt that it is good to have one of the three (presidency, house, senate) in opposition to the other two, as a […]

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i am a pacifist. i’ve known this for some time, but i wasn’t quite sure what the concept of ‘pacifism’ meant to me. i know that i abhor violence. my political heroes, for the most part, advocated or currently practice nonviolence: gandhi, martin luther king jr, jesus, and the dalai lama. i believe, that for […]

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