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Getting A Little Crazy, Well Maybe No

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I was asked by a person at work if I had ever done anything crazy as a teen/younger person. My answer was no. As a teenager I didn’t have a ton of friends and my only social outlet was church youth group and school. Other than that I didn’t get invited to a lot of places to do a lot of things other than youth group stuff. So I didn’t have a lot of opportunity to do really crazy things. Thee was a time when I did manage to go out with some peeps and got thrown out of a McDonald’s because we were being too loud.

Flash forward to today and I think had I done something crazy it would have impacted my life in the present. I am who I probably was meant to be. Life, faith, spirituality, karma, the universe, whatever has a way of leading to do things that will shape your future.

From where I sit now maybe a pierced ear or perhaps something else benign. I am grateful for the time spent with family who I consider my role models and I did spend time with older folks my parents and grandparents knew. Perhaps I am a old soul with now a youthful spirit or something like that.

Everyone has done stuff in their past that makes them who they are today. Maybe I was born to be mild. As Lady Gaga sings I was born this way. Someone who is radical, open minded, eclectic and loving. Yeah, it’s crazy right?

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Rambling About Originality And My Blog

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I make every effort to make my blog as original as possible using my own thoughts and words to express who I am and to chronicle and curate the things I am interested in. With that said I do “borrow” from sources when my own words aren’t as good as the original. I do give credit where credit is due though. Occasionally I will re-blog a post from a fellow blogger if it fits the overall narrative of my blog.

I get a lot of material for my blog from Wikipedia, YouTube, Google, Websites that features quotes and saying from others, etc. There are images that help tell my story that come from various sources which are copyrights of the holders and creators of their work. My blog is a non-commercial work and I have no intention of monetizing it.

I am influenced and inspired by other bloggers and the culture and attitudes of the moment. Sometimes that influence rubs off and you end up copying someone without realizing it. However there are some who just seem to take someone else’s work and make it their own, which is wrong.

Our world is a mix of open source and copyrighted works so we have to be careful to do the right thing and credit sources as a best practice.

What is your experience with originality and blogging?

As always I encourage you to be original, be yourself, make your blog unique. Keep on blogging.

 

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Post Something New Today 

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Make today you post something new. Share what’s going on in your world. Maybe post a poem or picture you think is cool. A blog is a living thing you know. Make your post it simple and fun. Keep on blogging. 

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To Serve and Protect. Senseless Killings Must Stop Everywhere

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I am a supporter of law enforcement. Many of it’s rank and file do great things in the communities they serve. However good law enforcement begins with training, temperance and a little tolerance along the way. Too many people have lost their lives unnecessarily due to incidences that could have been prevented. Law enforcement should be there to serve and protect even those who they are apprehending. Some people do bad things and threaten community and they need to be brought to swift justice by whatever legal means necessary. It’s also up to community and government to work together so that people aren’t brought to a point of desperation to do bad things.

The senseless killings this week are a reminder that life in all its stages is important and valuable. We have seen the names flash upon our screens and devices. Those people did not deserve to die. We can pull the trigger of a gun and public opinion too quickly without having all the facts. Too many people are no longer with family and loved ones because of that. It needs to stop. People are important, everywhere.

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Spreading Peace Everywhere

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May the peace of the Lord be with you.

May the peace of your creator sustain you.

May there be peace in our hearts so it can be in our homes.

May peace be in our homes that it spills out into community.

May there be peace in our communities that it spreads into the world.

May there be peace universal, global, in eternity

May peace be in all of time and space throughout all dimensions.

May you have that kind of peace always.

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Fixing Your Post Mistakes #wordpress #blogging

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I am glad that blog posts can be edited. Often times you write something that looks good at first, but it looks all sorts of wrong later. Those errors can be a little embarrassing when you don’t catch them in time. It’s not the end of the world, but you know you want to not make a fool of yourself. Grace in the blogging community for mistakes is a very nice thing to have.

Life would be great if we could go back and correct mistakes we made just like a post. Writing is something I have been told I am good at but when I do it there are lots of little things including punctuation that have to be fixed. There are great writers out there who do amazing posts and I hope to be right up there with them.