Your Brother

The family. We are

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The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. Erma Bombeck

If I had a

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If I had a worldview, and I don’t know if I do, but if I did, it’s one that’s intensely humanistic. [That worldview] is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and that’s the only thing that gives life meaning. Religion and gods and beliefs – for me, it all comes … Read more

Everything has two handles;

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Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and … Read more

If you really want

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If you really want me to be safe, maybe it’s time.\” \”I’d just feel safer if you’d start sleeping in a coffin.\” Just then my door creaked open. Billy’s expression turned to surprise. \”Get out!\” I said, hopping off the bed. \”Uh…we are making up lyrics to a song.\” But that didn’t keep Billy out. … Read more

I\\’m calling my initiative

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I’m calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you’re a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the … Read more