by kimmel1972 | May 28, 2022 | Ben's Blog
There are smells that we have from our past, which come up when we come across them. Like the smell of honeysuckles in spring, which reminds me of a backyard from my youth. Or, the smell of pizza while walking by an open door at a pizza shop and then quickly, I am...
by kimmel1972 | May 26, 2022 | Ben's Blog
I want to talk to you about freedom. I want to talk about freedom from the bondage of self. And I say self, as in the I, me, the individual and the personal nature of one’s own life. I want to encourage movement because otherwise, there is only the stagnant nature of...
by kimmel1972 | May 25, 2022 | Ben's Blog
How long ago was it? Or even if it was long ago, still, the question becomes, “Did it really happen?” I swear the past is a thousand years ago or equally as good. There was a time when everything was different. For example, I saw a young girl using an outdated flip...
by kimmel1972 | May 25, 2022 | Ben's Blog
The one thing I know and that I’ve known for a while is that we often grip the details of our past. Whether this is regret or pain or sins from an old self; or whether this is the inability to get away from old thinking or old responses, I know what this is like. I...
by kimmel1972 | May 23, 2022 | Ben's Blog
The saying goes that when the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. And this fits us now, that rather than debate a fact or hear an opinion about a person, place or thing; people dive into ad hominem attacks in which we attack character or motives...