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Terror as Wake-Up, Not Fear





A pretty good indicator of the need to slow down is when we lose track of what day it is.

I wonder why it seems we often need a critical situation to allow us to actually see what is happening?





A dear friend of mine’s daughter works on the fifth floor of the Navy yard building where the shooting took place recently.

She is fine (Thank God) and will probably never see this present second in quite the same way ever again.








Us as Road Kill





Today, I saw a newly killed squirrel lying in the road. I imagined the running, gathering, seeming happy existence of squirrels. I wonder if we have overemphasized and fear death far too much.





Could that be because we think about it far too much or refuse to realize we have no more control of when it might happen than squirrels?








What Do You Know for Sure?





It is said that the universe is expanding at the rate of between 100,000 and 2 million miles a second.





What do you know for sure, anyway?