Month: June 2020
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Kidney stone interruption.
I put the world on pause; if that’s even possible… Since starting this blog, I made a commitment to myself to document a week at a time. I needed to challenge myself and not get lazy or inconsistent. My thought was if I forced myself to produce every week it would become habit. The difficulty…
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Elephant in the room
Looking forward to getting away Discrimination has been part of our culture my entire life. Sadly it has continued mostly unchecked and therefore perpetuated throughout our history becoming so common it seemed invisible. Sometimes the arrests were particularly brutal and the resulting outrage gained the usual “15 minutes of fame” but then faded away like…
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Tumultuous
Be grateful. The dictionary says “disruptive,” “troubled,” “disorderly’ or “turbulent”. Personally, it was all that and one more word, “inspiring.” The way the protests started here in Salt Lake City were frightening but understandable. We have been under the cloud of COVID-19 for 3 months along with all the obligatory fear-mongering that goes with it.…
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One week
a perfect storm I was appalled like most humans watching the image of George Floyd. It wasn’t a grainy, disjointed or partial video showing an atrocity like so many before. With those images there is always something missing; the perpatrator left out of the frame or a blurred picture because of distance. We knew the…
a life always under construction 