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The Pirate Way: You don’t listen to me!
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Sunday, May 27, 2012. You don’t listen to me! In an age of tweets and twitter, the ability to listen; I mean to really listen, has taken a hit. There are a thousand and one ways to get our message out, and yet we long for that simple person to person connection. On any given Sunday, in churches all across the Inland Empire, the pews are filled with lonely people, longing for community. And a good place to start is with the 5. Habit of Stephen Coveys. By switching it around and Understanding first. We ope...
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The Pirate Way: January 2012
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Monday, January 30, 2012. When death comes knocking. My dad is not doing well. He is in the last stages of a disease that will take him soon. It is becoming clearer to me, how brief our life on this earth is. Life is like the fog; it envelopes us in the morning, and burns off by noon. As I look through a 4. Story window in the hospital where my dad is being treated, I can see the town where he spent many healthy years as a young man, cutting his path in life. So death is no longer an ‘academic ques...
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The Pirate Way: May 2012
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Sunday, May 27, 2012. You don’t listen to me! In an age of tweets and twitter, the ability to listen; I mean to really listen, has taken a hit. There are a thousand and one ways to get our message out, and yet we long for that simple person to person connection. On any given Sunday, in churches all across the Inland Empire, the pews are filled with lonely people, longing for community. And a good place to start is with the 5. Habit of Stephen Coveys. By switching it around and Understanding first. We ope...
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The Pirate Way: July 2012
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Saturday, July 7, 2012. Dreams expose our hidden concerns. Dreams tell us things our conscious life won’t. And if we listen to what they’re telling us, we can learn about the hidden side of ourselves, and in time, be comfortable in our own skin. Sigmund Freud breaks down a dream as “data taken in from the day’s residue and if images are important enough to be incorporated in it they must be reinforced by older, meaningful, affect-laden concerns.” (Yalom). Life, like time goes on; with or without me. ...
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The Pirate Way: June 2012
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Thursday, June 28, 2012. Freedom from a tyranical King; a true story. The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription. I know it's long, but read it, especially this 4th of July, and place yourself there that day when the agony of choosing liberty was born. Happy 4th! IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has called together legislative bodies at places un...
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The Pirate Way: Lighten up Francis
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Sunday, August 19, 2012. I was ‘mad-dogged’ by a 65 year old lady yesterday. I pulled up a little too far in the road trying to make a left hand turn. There was plenty of room for an oncoming car to go around. But the lady drove by real slow and gave me the ‘stare down.’. Now, how can I put this tactfully, the part of Long Beach where I come from, ‘mad dogging’ doesn’t go over very well. But then really, what was I going to do anyway? I notice it in our public discourse, where a lot verbal. We all have a...
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The Pirate Way: December 2011
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Friday, December 30, 2011. 7 “continuing resolutions” for 2012. Pic by Jannoon 028. Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. 2011 is coming to an end, and I will NOT. Be making any new. Resolutions. Instead, I have to work on the old ones I have yet to master. I figure if politicians can have ‘continuing resolutions,’ so can I. I’m reading a book by Psychologist, Irvin D Yalom; Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death. Or was it a year well lived? I will be gracio...
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The Pirate Way: March 2011
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Saturday, March 19, 2011. Conversations with Howard, Joe and Harry. Howard loves to talk. He will strike up a conversation with anyone at the bagel place I frequent. Howard is a regular, like me. Many people respond to Howard's intrusiveness because it's the polite thing to do. But I also notice that some people want to find the nearest exit. During one of Howard's rants, my mind traveled back to grad school and I began to think of two guy's I read about-Joe and Harry. Joe Luft and Harry Ingham were two ...
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The Pirate Way: August 2012
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Sunday, August 19, 2012. I was ‘mad-dogged’ by a 65 year old lady yesterday. I pulled up a little too far in the road trying to make a left hand turn. There was plenty of room for an oncoming car to go around. But the lady drove by real slow and gave me the ‘stare down.’. Now, how can I put this tactfully, the part of Long Beach where I come from, ‘mad dogging’ doesn’t go over very well. But then really, what was I going to do anyway? I notice it in our public discourse, where a lot verbal. We all have a...
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