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Looking Back at 2024: A Year of Transformation and Reflection

December 31, 2024 B. John 113 Views 0 Comments

As the curtain begins to close on 2024, I find myself looking back on what has truly been a transformative year. This was my “health-focused” year, and what a year it has been!

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My Creed

October 15, 2024 B. John 380 Views 0 Comments Friendship, Gratitude, love, Responsibility

I want there to be hearts that beat a little lighter just knowing I exist and there are smiles that bloom like sunlight when I cross their thoughts. I want my presence to bring a little warmth, ease, and joy to others’ lives. Friendship, to me, is a sacred bond, a quiet promise to be the reason someone feels seen and valued. I hold onto the knowledge that my existence makes a difference, and in turn, I strive to be someone worth remembering.

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Who’s The Smartest One of All?

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 B. John 389 Views 0 Comments Boeing, Phil Condit

None of us is a smart as all of us. – Phil Condit This is pretty obviously a riff on the concept of synergy, “the interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.” But coming from a guy with Phil Condit’s background, it takes on some real meaning.

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Deep Thoughts-Better to Bend Than Break

June 9, 2009 B. John 277 Views 1 Comment Compromise, H.G. Wells, love

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break. –H.G. Wells

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Deep Thoughts-The Highest Reward for Toil

June 7, 2009 B. John 277 Views 0 Comments

Back to the Deep Thoughts Series. The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes of it. –John Ruskin

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Happy 4th Anniversary to Deep Sand

May 24, 2008 B. John 250 Views 1 Comment 2004, Anniversary, Culture, Deep Something, elections, Family, fun, May 24, Movies, Politics

It’s hard to believe, but Deep Sand debuted on May 24, 2004. I can’t believe I’ve maintained this blog for that long. Lot’s of blogs out there have been abandoned over the years. Here’s to the last four years of blogging on Deep Sand, here’s to the unbelievable team of developers and the open source community that make WordPress and unbelievable software platform, and here’s to four more years of raising hell.

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Darwin on Today’s Economy

April 10, 2008August 10, 2015 423 Views 0 Comments Charles Darwin, Dick Cheney, Economy, george bush, Oil Prices, Recession

Reuters has a report from The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Economic Policy Institute showing that, “Since the late 1990’s average incomes have declined 2.5 percent for families on the bottom fifth of the country’s economic ladder, while incomes have increased 9.1 percent for families on the top fifth.” That got brought home to me tonight when I went to grab a bite to eat, and saw a couple have to forego eating so the kids could. More on that later in this story. One of the Deep Thoughts on this site is a quote from Charles Darwin, who said, “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” It doesn’t take much to help people, but the current crooks and liars running this government are hell bent and determined to not only forego providing that help, but in enriching their wealthy friends at the expense of those who can least afford it. One of the Deep Thoughts on this site is a quote from Charles Darwin, who said, “If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” It doesn’t take much to help people, but the current crooks and liars running this government are hell bent and determined to not only forego providing that help, but in enriching their wealthy friends at the expense of those who can least afford it.

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Hunger In America

December 10, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 244 Views 0 Comments Appalachia, Christian Science Monitor, food insecure, Hunger

I came across an article at the Christian Science Monitor on-line today about hunger in America. I spent some evenings working in the homeless shelter in Winston-Salem some years ago, and have, as a result of that experience, developed some perspective on the problems of poverty and homelessness in America. I wish I had some solutions, but I don’t…just a sense of what the world is really like.

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