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Troubling

By davidgrant2016 on December 10, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

I am troubled this morning! During the past presidential campaign, I succumbed to email solicitations and made a few very small donations to the Democratic Party’s attempt to unseat Donald Trump. I […]

A Reminder

By davidgrant2016 on November 19, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

A quote from my morning reading by Albert Einstein: “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, […]

Finding Purpose

By davidgrant2016 on November 17, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Boy, I really don’t know where the words are going this morning. Not into a blog, for sure. Which makes me question once again my motivation for having a blog in the […]

A Future Vision

By davidgrant2016 on November 16, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

I was reading Ken Wilber’s Integral Meditation this morning, and a sentence jumped out at me. “To a large degree, we can make the future that is given to us.” That being […]

It’s All Story

By davidgrant2016 on November 12, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Working on my Nano story this morning, actually struggling with the words like many others it seems, and it occurs to me that it’s all story. Life, that is. Life is just […]

Purpose?

By davidgrant2016 on November 9, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Nano has really taken a back seat this year. This last week watching the election and the drama associated with that coupled with the pandemic surge striking even closer in our family, […]

Speak the Truth

By davidgrant2016 on November 5, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

While walking yesterday, I was listening to the new biography of Jimmy Carter, His Very Best, by Jonathan Alter. In a section about the energy crisis of the 70’s, Alter relates Carter’s […]

Battling the inner critic

By davidgrant2016 on November 4, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

I’m writing this morning – not my Nano novel, yet, but still putting words on the page, and that’s what’s important. It’s amazing to me when I have a task, a goal […]

What Goes Around Comes Around

By davidgrant2016 on November 3, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Well, it’s finally here – election day. I don’t kid myself into believing by tonight we’ll know who our next president is. That’s just not going to happen. And yet this morning […]

Trump – “Worst Criminal?”

By davidgrant2016 on November 2, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Nano has begun and today I will devote my writing energies to my novel. But first I think I must respond to a recent interview in The New Yorker with Noam Chomsky, […]

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