That brings you to what you need to do once you have sat down. No rocket science here at all. You simply need to be completely honest with yourself. I am not saying be mostly honest with yourself, but be completely honest with yourself: All the way. That does not mean you need to bare
The choice is not to do something outrageous. Yes, some do choose wild paths and some do succeed on those paths. That is not what I am saying. Outrageous implies spontaneous reaction, and reaction means you gave it no thought at all. I have watched some of what appears to be outrageous and it is
I started this purposely telling you that there is no such thing as rehabilitation in this country and that is true. Maybe I irritated a few people immediately with that statement, but hear me out before you start protesting or whining about what I said. Check out the law. Take a look at reality. Check
I want to qualify that. I do not want to give anyone a way out. By forced I mean you were actually forced. I mean you were in a position where you were forced to do something that was against what you would normally have chosen to do. I do not mean situations where you
If you have lived any kind of life at all you have made mistakes. It comes with the human territory; I think it probably comes with any thinking animal’s territory. Those mistakes may be small or they may be large and overshadowing. You may be ridiculed because of them or they may be severe enough
It’s been an interesting week. We have run the gamut of weather here in the last 24 hours, rain, heat, thunder and lightening and high damaging winds. Seems like it might rain now. Maybe. I spent today painting, I will spend tomorrow doing the same. Interior painting, it all has to get done eventually. When
Understand this was a process. There was no flash of light and then I was absolved of all wrong doing. I was only taking that first step. I was still a criminal, still hated and still a liar in many respects. No one began to love me because of that, many people even seemed to
It’ll never be as good as Monday, Monday, but it is Sunday after all. Finally got plowed out late last night, about a foot of new snow on the level, less than the 22 inches that was forecast. As a result I never checked the mail Friday or Saturday. Shouldn’t have been any Friday, but