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Boxes
We have all heard the term “thinking outside the box”. Well, I want to expand on that. If you look at your individual ideology, your beliefs, that is a box. It is where your limits are set, the place where you are most comfortable. Everyone has their own box. The question I have is, was the box built by nature or nurture? I think perhaps both, but like the individual, there is a variation of the ratio between the two. Some have more box built by society, while other have more built by their nature. There is also some harmony between the two, most times. Where there is an issue…
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9/11
I remember this day, twenty-one years ago, and how it profoundly affected me. I had just arrived at work at the power plant. The whole off-going shift was in the control room with a contraband TV on the desk. I saw contraband because they were prohibited in the control rooms of the power plants in my company. They all had stunned looks on their faces and asked if I had heard. I hadn’t. I saw the report on the TV and the first thing I thought was instrument failure or pilot error. Then I watched the second plane hit and my stomach dropped. I knew. This was an attack, an…
My Happy Place