Certainly a girl doesn’t need to be nothing more than an accessory to someone who sees her as a sign of success, not as a person. When you are in a real relationship, both parties do begin to need each other, if not for survival, for quality of life. Someone who makes … Continue reading →
Life can be irritating. It’s not always pleasant. Frankly, depending on your mood- simply reading that may be irritating. Let me do it again. Sometimes that irritation can be good. Since this year’s theme is “Feeding our fires in times of need” I think of the image of someone starting a fire … Continue reading →
We are often afraid of power. A common aphorism is that “Power corrupts and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely.” Even when we are not concerned about what it might be doing to our spiritual health, we often wonder just how much power we can control…, and what if it gets away from us? … Continue reading →
Robert Anton Wilson (in case you didn’t know) was an American author, futurist, and self-described agnosticmystic. (It would be nice to get some agnostic mystics to come to CTCW.) But this quote makes an important point. “Every person you meet should be regarded as … walking wounded”. Even if you find that … Continue reading →
There’s a game where each player is asked to get others to guess an object without using any gestures, only words, but also no related words. We learned that one of the best ways to make someone aware of something is to show it’s absence. For example, if you want to open … Continue reading →
