When life throws you curve balls, bunt. It is not possible for the human mind to conceive all the possibilities which could exist if they did exist. The size of the issues we face in our daily existence is usually measured by the pile of experience we have amassed. 
There is a fairly safe, innocuous path which can be followed and is prized by those with timid or limited expectations. For others there is the most incredulously dangerous one which has a low long term survivability rate. And somewhere in between are the curve balls. Continue reading
Curve Balls
The Impetus
It was thirty eight minutes and forty four seconds. It was an encouragement, an entertainment, a frustration release. It was mentoring, challenging, suggestive and dumbfounding. It was all of that and yet it was nothing at all. It mattered more than most things seem to these days and it mattered not at all. Why do you suppose we are willing to put thirty eight minutes and forty four seconds into tilting at windmills? Continue reading
Undeniable
Some things in life are undeniable. If you are a redhead and your mother is a redhead and her mother had red hair, then you probably expect that your unborn daughter will be a redhead. And if she is, when you line up for three or four generation photographs, you will not be able to deny the relationship. Continue reading
Bad Relationships
Recently I saw a statement by someone I didn’t know and I’m pretty sure it was not original with them. It had an element of truth in it but did not ring completely true with me. The premise was that it was better to be alone than to be in a bad relationship. As I said there is an element of truth in this. If you carefully define bad relationships as one in which you are honestly and openly invested in and are receiving such negative impact that there is no conceivable hope of restoration.
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