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November 28th, 2008
I’ve been recently reminded of my years running as a medic with our local rescue squad. Running rescue can certainly put you on an emotional roller coaster. Rage, sorrow, despair, desperation, panic, frustration, joy, and sometimes you even encountered downright comedy. Thank God for the comedy calls, they certainly help offset some of the more
tragic ones.
Being called to people’s homes at all hours and for all manor of emergencies certainly gives you an eye opener into how some people live, or I should say “exist”. And it’s certainly a reality check of the wide range of competence levels that lurk in your local community.
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June 7th, 2008
Did you read in the paper about Army Specialist Jeremy Hall, who’d been ostracized by his staff sergeant and some of the other troops and made to sit apart at Thanksgiving dinner for declining to participate in a Christian prayer?
It amazes me how obsessed and obnoxious people have been about religion throughout history, and many continue to be to this day. It just gets my knickers in a twist how some have zero tolerance for others that don’t believe as they do. The religiously obsessed seem to think that their way is the only way and non-believers are doomed to live a heathen existence of which “God’s children” want no part. What a bunch of daft bastards.
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May 27th, 2008
Most of the time it’s quite nice to live in the country and be surrounded by nature. I wake up every morning, take my coffee out at the crack of dawn and listen to the sounds of the world around me coming to life. A wild turkey gobbles in the distance followed by the hoot of an owl. Frogs croak down by the pond and the trees are full of birds singing to the dawn as it breaks on the horizon. Read the rest of this post here »