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A World on Fire

A World on Fire

As always has been and I suppose will continue to be, someone is toasting with champagne and sleeping in soft sheets, while someone is trying to sleep and comfort their crying children in an auditorium full of people to escape bullets.

What gives your life weight and substance? What are you searching for?

What gives our lives weight and meaning?

The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.

White wings.

Father: Happy Birthday. Wish you were here.

My father was Wilson Scott. Although, named after the famous general, he was never a man of war. He and my mother were missionaries until I…

What are your favorite movies?

The English Patient: Fantasies of Being Skinless and Being Buried Alive?

English Patient: I did not experience a love story. It was a story of pathological, sadomasochistic obsession. I could have found that interesting in a movie, but please don’t tell me that was love.

Body NOT found in the Kern River

Body NOT found in the Kern River

I pulled a 'Without a Trace' scenario today, only I wasn’t declared missing, and my body wasn’t found two weeks later floating in the Kern River. What was I thinking?

Shelter, the movie from 2007. Excellent summer love romance.

Shelter. Movie Review.

The title says everything, Shelter. At some point in our life, we need someone to believe, understand and give us shelter.

Swimming In The Dark. Book Review.

Swimming In The Dark. Book Review.

Right from the start you know it’s going to hurt. There were times reading it I wanted to stop because I knew how I was going to feel at the end. But I didn’t stop. In fact, I kept putting little Post-its where I wanted to re-read certain sections.