Behold, Happy Is The Man

Category: Lights On

  • Starting Over, Beginning Anew

    Thanks for checking back in for my further (mis)adventures. Sparing you the grim details of how I came to be incarcerated in 2022 (in short, it involved striking a family member, and alcohol was involved) let’s just say at that time I was in dire need of working some deep and passionate forgiveness. Any evangelist…

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  • Idle Worship, Part 1

    So if you’ve stuck with me so far, you now know that I draw lessons and guidance from both the Bible and the Buddha. Here comes the tricky part (and yes, Apu, we do need the Kwik-E-Mart*): where I do my best to explain how the two sources come together for me. (*Hello Simpson fans!)…

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  • The B Side

    When COVID hit full stride in 2020 I went with the flow and stayed close to home, trying some of the popular methods to keep busy such as bread-baking. (I was and still am a lousy baker.) A master chef and baker I once worked for explained it perfectly thus: “Cooking is an art, baking…

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