I was in Southern India several years ago and noticed an odd thing about most of the small children there: They all had little red strings tied around their bellies. These toddlers who were just learning to walk and run around were most often stark naked, save these shoelace-sized red bands tied around their middles.
An ode to family and growing old joyfully…
“There’s just no good guys/girls in my life right now…” Make excuses or moves.
Addiction doesn’t start when you bring the bottle to your lips or fire up your laptop; it started hours or days before that moment.
When moments of clarity arrive, do you take advantage of them or let them slip away, returning again to the fog of addiction?
Spirit (passion/zeal) at the neglect of truth to anchor it results in cults, unorthodox sects, and damage to outsiders (like me).
“Anger isn’t bad, as long as you’re angry at the right things.” I just never understood what the ‘right things’ were…
Is your view of sex unrealistic? In reality, it may be rather mundane, awkward, and…boring.
The Reformation/Communism primer I wish I’d had years ago.
In a thick Eastern European accent, he simply said, “Pray to God. Ask him to forgive your sins.”
