I was in church over the weekend and I was listening to the deacon’s sermon. He was speaking about how he was once involved in a group where everyone anonymously evaluated everyone else. He was surprised to find out that his peers thought of him very differently than he thought of himself. Almost to opposite extremes as a matter of fact.

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What you are looking at is a WordPress theme designed by me. I call it Kaman (I’ll let you figure out what it means) and I’m pretty excited about it. You could say it is a bit simple, but it was fun creating it. I would like it to be more and over time I’m sure I will find new way of doing things that will make it better.

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Are you happy with your life? The other day I wrote about Radical Simplicity by Dan Price. He simplified his life to the extreme so that he could feel closer to nature and his idea of freedom. While writing that post it got me thinking about a story I have heard many times. Read more »

Recently, I finished reading a series of books by Daniel Quinn (Ishmael, My Ishmael and The Story of B). These are the most profound books I have ever read and each takes a different approach to teaching the history of how we “got to where we are.” The problem is, these books are so important to me that I do not want to do a simple report on the books and walk away. These books are so important to me that I want to take some time to really get a handle on what they truly mean to me and how I will do and view things differently going forward.

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Another book down and I’m happy to have made the decision to pick up and read Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne. Jerry has taken the concept of evolution, which is so complex and so deeply contested between the religious and scientific worlds, and presented it in an easily understood and convincing manner.

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