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This is my new favorite T-shirt. And yes that is the #GulfOfMexico behind me, since 1550.

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I wrote a short piece for "Modern Elder Academy." I hope it is helpful to someone. www.meawisdom.com/what-my-olde...

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So much for “We the People”

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Glad we moved all of our retirement out of stocks into bonds yesterday. #GoodGrief #TariffsAreStupid

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"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." This quote, often attributed to George Orwell, underscores the subversive power of truth in a society dominated by lies and manipulation. Honesty is not just a virtue; it is an act of defiance that can inspire change.

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I expanded this post. I hope it is helpful. #StagesOfDevelopment #SelfAwareness #SpiritualMaturity #SecondHalfOfLife www.missionalchurchnetwork.com/blog/stages-...

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"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke" ~Benjamin Disraeli Disraeli uses metaphorical language to contrast true strength with the illusion of strength. Bullies may appear strong but their power is hollow, like smoke that disappears. True strength comes from courage not from tearing others down.

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Bullies are always cowards at heart.

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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Before meaningfully engaging our city, we must first develop an understanding of and a genuine love for its people and culture. Here is a link to a free e-book, I hope you find it helpful. acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

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Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. ~ Octavia Butler

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Bwahahaha. Mar-a-Lago was listed as "Kremlin Headquarters" for a little while on Google Maps. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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If Russia ceases combat operations, the war is over. If Ukraine ceases combat operations, Ukraine is over

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Hmmm, as a diehard Chiefs fan for over 50 years, I think I have just become an Eagles fan, at least for a few days :-)

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The net effect of Christendom over the centuries was that Christianity moved from being a dynamic, revolutionary social and spiritual movement to being a static religious institution with its corresponding structures, priesthood, and rituals. www.missionalchurchnetwork.com/blog/navigat...

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Congrats to @bsky.app and all the users and team that make it unique ! 32m users is real !

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Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

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"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. The same is true of any endeavor: if the solution you seek doesn't exist, create it." ~ Toni Morrison

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If the scandal of the evangelical mind was a failure to engage seriously with intellectual life, then the scandal of the evangelical gospel is our failure to proclaim and embody Jesus’ Kingdom vision. #Gospel #KingdomOfGod #GospelOfJesus www.missionalchurchnetwork.com/blog/the-sca...

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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

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There is no hierarchy of callings. "The physical space between pulpit and pew in worship spaces is necessary for practical reasons. The metaphorical space between the 'ordained' and the 'ordinary' in the church, however, is unfortunate and unbiblical" ~Quinn, "Every Waking Hour"

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A great part of every day is not lived consciously.... When it is a bad day the proportion of non-being is much larger. ~ Virginia Woolf, "Moments of Being"

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Hmmm, published 20 years ago: "A culture that is immature, and believes its values besieged, will fall back into a siege mentality, a sentimental nostalgia for a simpler time, for simplistic black-and-white value judgments, and will project its own shadow by vilifying others." ~ James Hollis

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I am genuinely concerned for the heart and soul of our country—not just for its policies or its politics, but for the deeper currents that shape who we are. When division overtakes dialogue, when fear replaces curiosity, and when self-interest drowns out the common good, we are at risk.

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@apnews.com Thank you for not buying into the foolishness.

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The White House blocked an AP reporter from President Trump's news conference with India's prime minister over AP's style decision to stick with the name “Gulf of Mexico." apnews.com/article/ap-w...

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If you want to know more about #Covocational #ChurchPlanting check out the new #Covo page on the Send Network website at covochurchplanting.com You can download free resources and sign up for a Covo webinar this coming Thursday. #KeepYourJob #PlantAChurch

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"One's powerful position in life ... has absolutely no correlation with one's emotional maturity. In fact, a person who voraciously seeks outer validation through social position is one most likely to have large, unfinished business within." ~James Hollis #Hmm #JustLeaveItAtThat

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It takes a LOT more energy, effort, money and political will to fix the city-building mistakes of the past than it takes to do the right things in the first place, even if they SEEM hard to do at the moment. Stop making the mistakes that we KNOW are mistakes.

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

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As I get older, I realize more every day, that if your religion/spirituality is in any sense making you climb, achieve, prove, or perform, instead of some form of downward mobility (humility, simplicity, service, generosity) there is reason to question it.

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A narcissist is the kind of person who stares in the mirror, and nobody stares back inwardly. They're empty. That's why they have to use power, control, and manipulation of one kind or another to receive the valuation of others. ~ James Hollis

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#Funny #FormalyKnown

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Do yourself and those around you a favor. Read this book.

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If the agenda of the first half of life is social, meeting the demands and expectations our milieu asks of us, then the questions of the second half of life are spiritual, addressing the larger issue of meaning. ~ James Hollis, "Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life"

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Wow, from today's @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy by Maria Popova, she shares on the topic of optimism and dispair from Zadie Smith's book "Feel Free." Smith locates our reasons for optimism by widening the pinhole of the present:

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The Imago Dei demands we treat others with dignity and respect. #Love "There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal." ~ C.S. Lewis "If you look into the face of the person next to you and cannot see the face of Jesus, then look again." ~ Dorothy Day

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"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members." ~ Gandhi

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The ego wishes comfort, security, satiety; the soul demands meaning, struggle, becoming... Accordingly, stronger souls seek therapy; the more damaged seek someone to blame. ~ James Hollis

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"Let's make goodness attractive." ~ Fred Rogers

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“The first half of life is about building a house. The second half is about discovering who lives in it.” ~ James Hollis from "The Middle Passage"

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“The first half of life is about building a house. The second half is about discovering who lives in it.” ~ James Hollis #SecondHalfOfLife

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"If you don’t know who you are, you become what you do." ~ Chip Conley

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Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

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"Fear of our own depths is the enemy." ~ James Hollis, The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

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"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." ~ Simone Weil

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🎯 The myth of a Christian culture continues to set the mind of the Western church at ease. This myth assumes that the West is, or once was, a Christian culture. If the culture is Christian, there is no need to analyze its assumptions or develop a counter-cultural instinct. ~ Michael Goheen

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#Tariffs

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"This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather." #groundhogday

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