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My Blog Inaction Day Contribution

This week, on October 15th, the blogosphere celebrated Blog Action Day, a day on which hundreds of bloggers wrote about a specific topic. This year’s topic, not surprisingly, was the environment. In response to this day of collective yapping, I’m holding my own blogging event. Only, I’m the only participant, and I won’t delude myself into thinking that by talking (or writing) about something I’m going to change anything.

Now, before you starting thinking that I’m an evil anti-environmentalist, let me make a couple of statements. First of all, I do believe that we all must individually begin making better choices. We’re the only creatures on earth that befoul their own living environment … and continue to do so after the negative impacts are realized. Secondly, I love Nature. I love being in Nature. There is an awesome feeling being in a pristine location, with no man-made structures in sight. I can totally relate to animist religions, like Shinto, that revere natural locations as sacred, such as mountains, waterfall, streams, forests, etc.
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Posted by keith on Oct 17th 2007 | Filed in General, Society | Comments (0)

Mid-Life Reflection, Lifelong Fascination, and Longing for Something Unknown

Thoughts are the rudders for our lives. When they are jumbled, the rudder spins in all directions, and the ship becomes lost or doesn’t move at all. When thoughts are positive and full of confidence, the rudder makes its adjustments as necessary, but no sea of trouble can throw the ship off-course. And when thoughts are depressed, it seems the ship has run aground and the rudder is mired down in the sandbars of life. Such are my thoughts right now.

I’ll be 36 next month, so I suppose I’m at the mid-life point of my life. The men of my family don’t live for very long after 60, and I have enough negative health markers to where I shouldn’t expect a long life. A heart attack took my father, paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother; cancer took my mother; and diabetes took my uncle. I’m single, overweight, and sedentary. In the game of life, I’m rolling snake eyes. Frankly, if I live past 40, I’ll be surprised.
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Posted by keith on Oct 8th 2007 | Filed in General | Comments (1)