Tuesday, July 28, 2026

As Deep As I Get

There are things the human mind cannot comprehend, among them the boundlessness of possibility.  Only by accepting this do we free our hopes from the limits of our understanding. Why confine our consolations to some narrow theology when every miracle we could wish for lies in the unknowability that is God?  The answer to the eternal "Why" lies in the three words, "We Don't Know" and in those words lies all hope.


If there's one thing you learn in a long life, it is that God will eventually do what is necessary to capture your attention.  


Religion and science have this in common, that each believes in a mystical, unseen Trinity, invisibly controlling the universe.  For religion, it is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  For science, it is Dark Mass, Dark Energy and Dark Flow.


Friday, July 24, 2026

The Fruit Untasted

 Life is more a basket of kumquats than a bowl of cherries -- the task you kumquat finish, the promise you kumquat keep, the apology you kumquat find the words for. 

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Sunday, July 19, 2026

Define Marriage

Disclaimer:  The following applies to marriages generally and not to any particular marriage I might be involved in.  😉

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Marriage:  the unforeseen consequence of a wedding.


Marriage:  a state of bliss in which if one partner dies unexpectedly, the other is the prime suspect.


Marriage: the process by which, after two become one, they decide which one.


Marriage:  a partnership formed with no clear objective and sustained by the absence of any clear alternative.

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Four Thoughts

 It is a shame to keep a deep dark secret from the one person who might most help you to bear its burden.


It is sad when a relationship survives all the reasons it could never work only to fail because you neglected the reasons it should have worked.


There are words said in the heat of argument that you cannot unsay.  You must trust in love's ability to unhear.


The ultimate test of love is a test of forgiveness, and no one so tested will ever ask again, "What is love?"  

Friday, July 3, 2026

Ah, Perspective!

A summer vacation seems wonderful in prospect,  but then, in the actual experience, it often diminishes to the point of becoming a series of irritations, until, eventually, it retreats into memory and, voila, becomes wonderful again. 

And therein lies the question -- if you look forward to your vacation with great anticipation and remember it with wistful pleasure, does it really matter if you didn't actually enjoy it?