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I don’t agree with everything in this. However, the point of the Intramuralist has never been to all agree; in fact, whoever assumes that unity only comes when everyone all agrees — or, colloquially, "all agree with me,” so-to-speak — most likely has a false sense of unity.
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Hang around me for only a small while and you’ll quickly know there’s about 37 things I love passionately. For brevity sakes, I’ll mention a mere 7 today: (1) Jesus, (2) football season, (3) my gifted sons, (4) respectful dialogue, (5) “Friends,” (6) authenticity, and (7) accountability.
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As we near the fourth quarter of the year, I began evaluating last year’s resolutions — how they’re shaping up, noting any ditched long ago, and how I might be motivated with three more months in the year. As noted, my previous, most prominent goal was simply to read
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Many of our posts here have a definitive beginning, end, and bottom line point — sort of as if, when complete, it’s all wrapped up in a nice, neat, figurative bow. This will be no such post. I want to talk about COVID-19… the vaccine, masks, mandates, our individual
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Follow me here. It was crazy scary… It started mildly; it was first observed to be only a tropical depression. A tropical depression is a tropical cyclone that has maximum sustained surface winds of 38 mph or less. But within 48 hours, there was an unexpected, rapid intensification. Sustained winds
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Oh, how I long for a September 12th mentality… … a day we came together… … a day we knew that life was short… ... a day we knew what was good and right and true... … a day we knew all lives mattered… … a day we weeped together… … a day we cried out
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20 years ago today, I was attempting to grapple with a coming new reality. It wasn’t expected, wanted, nor bound to be easy. While simultaneously thrilled and overwhelmed with the thought of soon raising another child, it never ever occurred to me that the plan for my life would
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In recent years I went through the process of becoming my youngest son’s legal guardian. And while an incredibly skilled and gifted individual, as a young man with a few special, special needs, it’s important that another be involved in his personal, financial, and possible medical decisions going
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It was Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, I believe, who first articulated that “you are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” Moynihan was a unique statesman; long before the present days of polarized partisanship, the New York Democrat also served in various advisory positions
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Saturday mornings are a great time to take a long, leisurely walk in our community. We’re pretty wellness focused here; in addition to the neighborhood gym, there’s some 40+ miles of walking trails. Yesterday, in fact, was especially sweet. Almost all of a sudden, displayed on dozens of
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One of the three zillion things drilled into me as a kid was to let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ In other words, say what you mean and mean what you say. In my spirited adolescence, I far from fathomed that such would be equally challenging
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Ok, I admit it. There were many days over the course of the past month in which it was incredibly tempting to pick up my pen (or actually, open Pages) and craft a post. But two premises rang louder: one, the guest writers of our annual summer series articulated themselves