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eThoughts : Patterns IV
Jan 1, 2005, now 7:15 p.m. and my neighbors’ dogs, one neighbor’s dogs in particular, have been at it for well over an hour. I was in my house on my 2.5 acres (the size of many parcels in this area), sitting in my living room, close to the fireplace, a good 64 feet of […]
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- On Jan, 22, 2005
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eThoughts : Patterns III (January, 2005)
The New Year is a good time for recapitulation amidst the celebration, a time to re-visit how we see things, how we relate, and how our relationships are doing. Though it seems silly to me in many ways, relationships of long ago seemed to have found their way back. Hibernation is not just for some […]
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- On Jan, 19, 2005
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eThoughts : Patterns II (June, 2004)
I recently visited a couple I have not seen for over 5 years and we talked, among other things, about past relationships, love, loss, recapitulation, and renewal. As I heard it from them, my problem with thoughts like those in Renewal, is that I’m blocking the possibility of having a new intimate relationship because I’m […]
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- On Jan, 05, 2005
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eThoughts : Patterns I (Originally written in January of 1999)
An Ode To Us: Emotional Hummingbirds, Sun Spot Cycles, and Romantic Dinosaurs. She calls and says she wants to have dinner and she says I am her favorite past love and that she was wrong about trying to make me fit her mold and that I’m actually okay and she now understands why I’m unhappy […]
- By Travis Gibbs
- On Jan, 01, 2005
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eThoughts : Holiday Grace, 2004
(For more Holiday thoughts, go to: Holiday Thoughts for 2003 or More 2004 Holiday Thoughts, or Holiday Thoughts for 2005 and 2005 Holiday Thoughts Continued, or Holiday Thoughts: 2006, and We Are and the Age of Clarity .) Maybe the reason, if there is such a thing, that we’ve manufactured more control than we have […]
- By Travis Gibbs
- On Dec, 23, 2004
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eThoughts : Holiday Thoughts, 2004
(For more Holiday thoughts, go to: Holiday Thoughts for 2003 and 2004 Holiday Thoughts Continued, or Holiday Thoughts for 2005 and 2005 Holiday Thoughts Continued, or Holiday Thoughts: 2006, and We Are and the Age of Clarity .) Yet another Holiday season approaches, and another opportunity to engage in good will. Good luck. Yep, I’m […]
- By Travis Gibbs
- On Dec, 13, 2004
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eThoughts : About Curtains, Levers, and Wizards
Amusement parks can be vastly entertaining–we get to watch all the freaks (uh, that would be us as well), assault our bodies with all kinds of suspect rides, take our chances to win a bobble or two (or some bigger-than-truck-sized stuffed animal), and indulge in the gastronomic cuisine (fried Twinkies, fried Snickers Bars?). And we […]
- By Travis Gibbs
- On Nov, 09, 2004
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eThoughts : Voting, Freedom, and Choice
It’s voting season again–a time to exercise our freedom of choice and contribute the decisions that guide our fate. Hmmm. Don’t get me wrong, I’m generally in favor of democracy. And I’m generally in favor of freedom of choice. I’m just not sure there’s a standard application or definition for democracy or freedom of choice. […]
- By Travis Gibbs
- On Nov, 01, 2004
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eThoughts : Starting With Ourselves and Our Neighborhoods
One of the first places we can start is in our communities, among neighbors. What if in each and every neighborhood we gathered together to raise our concerns for and about living around each other? What if we emphasized genuineness as an agenda? What if we set aside first impressions or old impressions and we […]
- By Travis Gibbs
- On Oct, 21, 2004
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eThoughts : The 1960s: Illusion and Promise
The 60s, in some way lasting until the end of the 70s, were an interesting and important time as I see it. Yes, it was a bipolar era, full of promise and ruined, I think, by illusion. The inherent idea was about awareness, about higher consciousness, about learning and community–about evolving into a humanity of […]
- By Travis Gibbs
- On Oct, 01, 2004
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eThoughts : Gestalt, Figure/Grounds, and Forgiveness
Sometime around the age of 14, when I was camping in the Sierra Nevada Range, I left our camp about an hour before sunset to make a nature run. I did not walk far, but apparently I was not paying attention. This went against the training I received, but a walk to relieve myself was […]
- By Travis Gibbs
- On Sep, 18, 2004
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eThoughts : Chakras, Chi, and Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang
I have been away recently, to Georgia in fact, and to a little resort that is supposed to be peaceful. Actually it was, with one little exception–barking dogs. Now this noise intrusion is not on the same scale as it is where I live, but it is still a noise intrusion, and it is quite […]
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- On Sep, 01, 2004
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eThoughts : Awareness, Experience, Grace, and Creation
I went to a wedding today and afterwards I came home and watched the movie Tuesdays with Morrie, based on a book written by Mitch Albom. My oldest daughter gave me the book to read about a month ago, but I’ve not done it yet–having forgotten about it in the midst of a lot of […]
- By Travis Gibbs
- On Aug, 24, 2004
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