Let Me Grow

If you don't like who I am right now, you might just be early. Check back in the future; I'll be a different, better person then. You likely will too. We're all works in progress. 

Running On Fumes, but I Can Push on

“I’m doing okay; I’m doing fine. I am running a bit on fumes, but as they say, the fumes are really thick. It’s enough to keep me going.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

^Me, like 2 miles into our ~19 mile Mount Charleston hike yesterday. 😄

Free The Nip!

How is it 2020, with the public fighting for gender and race equality, and 50% of the population in 44 states still can't take their shirts off on a hot day? 

In Disagreement, We Still Have Much to Offer One Another

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2020/jul/04/first-things-first/526712/

Oddly enough, the aforementioned article arrived in my email inbox shortly after I'd contemplated the following:

Often, I encounter opinions I find offensive, unfounded, and grossly different from my own but choose to remain in the presence of those who hold them in order to try to learn something — if not from their thoughts, than about their way of thinking.

^Written after almost unsubscribing to a daily newsletter called Inverse that I receive via email because it voiced opinions I disagree with yet again. In the end, I thought better of it. Perhaps, there's knowledge to be acquired there.