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Waiting For Superman

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2/15/14


Today I don't want to be introspective. I want to just be superficial, which is kind of different for me, not in an arrogant way, just in a factual way. I thought it was interesting when I read an article about a guy who decided to follow Ben Franklin's schedule for a day. Ben left time for study and to deal with spiritual things. The author said he almost never did that, and it was an interesting thing for him to do. Thinking about big things like God and purpose and why we are here and doing research into those questions is something I grew up doing and something I do all the time. How can you not wonder about that? How can you just go through life and just go to work, come home, be with your someone, party sometimes and that is it. That is satisfying? Really? Don't you wonder about things as a whole? Don't you wonder why we are here or how, or do you just take science's or God's word for it and leave it at that. I guess in a way you could have more of your emotional energy available to fritter away on personal drama. That might be interesting. I know it is kind of a weight on me to wonder about my, and our purpose, to wonder what or who else is out there, and it is a huge itch I am just dying to scratch to see everything as it really is. I used to think I would just go to heaven and God would explain it all to me and I could live with that. Now I am not so sure I will ever know, and ugh, that is annoying.

But to live without that burden, to me is to live in a closet. To live in the small world of what I see now. I just need to get out into the air and breath and wonder, and make wild guesses and hope. So with that comes the burden of what I don't know, of making choices and just not knowing if they are the right ones because I can't have all the information. I can't see past death or into the new millennium, so I have to make some of my best guesses blind.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Halloween pictures





































The kids had a lot of opportunities to dress up this year. The first came at our local library's Halloween storytime and trick or-treat around the library. Todd took the kids and a friend and they ran into another friend or two there. The organizer of our main homeschool group put together a play for the kids to perform at a local retirement center, then again at a senior center. They got to wear their costumes, use lots of props and sing some cute songs, besides the added benefit of allowing the kids to mingle with the senior citizens at the performances. It was a great experience and the kids had alot of fun. We actually did go trick-or-treating, too. Our subdivision doesn't have much activity Halloween night so we went to Wake Forest to hang out with a friends family who has a hoppin neighborhood Halloween night. Wow, what fun we had this season. If you don't recognize the boys, Arin is Cyclops, one of the X-men with laser eyes that Todd fashioned for him from an old laser level. Evan is continuing his streak four years running of being a video game character. First was Luigi, then Mario, then Starfox, and this year he was Toad.

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