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Friday Writing Challenge, Again

Posted on by Paul In The Buff

There’s no such thing as an undamaged person, but to understand someone else’s damage, to understand what they need, and to understand who you need to be in order to not add to that damage takes effort. A lot of effort. Effort that very few people are willing to put into a relationship.

This is really complicated. But it isn’t about who is damaging who, or what damage we all have. We have to start putting more effort into understanding ourselves, having patience with each other, and recognizing the things that truly matter in our world. There’s no one right answer, or easy answer, or magic pill.

Weigh-In Wednesday Again

Posted on by Paul In The Buff

This literally weighs on me. I want this nation to be a shining example of what a nation should be. There are too many people that think that shining example should be led by money, and stock markets, and how successful a very small minority is, or how many people own guns, or how much money we spend on our military…

Personal Politics In Business

Posted on by Paul In The Buff

Randal: All those innocent contractors hired to do the job were killed! Casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. All right, look, you’re a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got a wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia – this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn’t ask for that. You have no personal politics. You’re just trying to scrape out a living.

Roofer: Well, I’m a contractor myself. I’m a roofer—Dunn and Ready Home Improvements—and speaking as a roofer, I can tell you, a roofer’s personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.

Wednesday Weigh-In and Random Thoughts

Posted on by Paul In The Buff

Disheartening to see another side to the history we have been taught, and understand that the United States might have actually been the bad-guy when it came to de-militarizing after World War II, and forced the cold war upon the world, instead of working toward making the world a better place.

Toxic Masculinity

Posted on by Paul In The Buff

The important things to remember are, when we win, we win with grace. When we lose, we keep our dignity, and take lessons from our losses.

Good character means more in life than having a perfect record, or a shelf of trophies.

Weigh-In Wednesday

Posted on by Paul In The Buff

A see a lot people calling Kanye West a “genius.” By what definitions is this guy a genius? Not all misunderstood people are geniuses. Not all popular artists are geniuses either. Most geniuses probably languish, and are never recognized as such. I have yet to witness this genius displaying any traits that I would call, genius.