self-awareness
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Mind Over Matter
The most important thing I learned in physics is that the central ingredients of the universe are undefined. My high school physics teacher always had us write out definitions of various ingredients, like space, velocity, and weight. He also included three requests for definitions of time, distance, and mass. It took me some time…
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Loving and Liking I: Not the Same
Loving and Liking I: Not the Same Some people are just easy to love. They attract your love for many reasons, but it isn’t necessary what they say or do: they’re just lovable. They’re like little kittens or puppies. I’m reminded of being with our grandson a couple years ago at Bear Country while the…
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Who’s in Control
I’ve heard a lot about “control,” most of it negative. Like, “He’s a control freak,” or “She just has to control everybody in her life.” And then there is the other side, which seems to affirm that you can’t control anything and shouldn’t try like, “What’s going to happen is just going to happen” or…
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The Other N Word
I have to be real careful with this blog. It could be very offensive. The “N word” that we all know…unfortunately…is all too rampant in America. Not so, by the way in most of the rest of world, and not even very prevalent in North America. I never heard the N word when I lived…
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Awful
I felt a fair bit of sadness over the last few days. I have been confronted by sadness at four different times all within 48 hours. Sadness has been a central ingredient in my understanding how things work, how the world works, and how people work. So it wasn’t with despair or despondency that I…
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Feelings IV: Intuition
This is the fourth in a series of blogs of feelings. Feelings I had to do with identifying basic feelings, namely joy and sorrow, the feelings related to love; and anger and fear, the feelings related to defense. Feelings II dealt with expressing feelings, and Feelings III on hearing feelings. We have granted that the…