by kimmel1972 | Aug 14, 2021 | Ben's Blog
The fact is it’s easy to go crazy. If you think about it, we’ve been going crazy for years and yet, where have we gone? I can say this wholeheartedly. I can say that I have run and hid and I’ve jumped and I’ve dodged my share of landmines. I can say that I’ve hit a...
by kimmel1972 | Aug 13, 2021 | Ben's Blog
Somewhere within in us all is a reservoir. This an untapped resource and we search for this. We look to find this source of energy in other people, places or things. We look to each other; as if someone else can give us this wellspring and somehow quench our thirst or...
by kimmel1972 | Aug 12, 2021 | Ben's Blog
There was a hike that took place on the side of a mountain a few years back. I was away from most of the world. The trail was in the woods and the air was hot. The sun was in its early stages and the sunlight was filtering through the leaves in the tall trees. My...
by kimmel1972 | Aug 11, 2021 | Ben's Blog
They say you catch more bees with honey—or is it more flies? Or does the point have nothing to do with flies or bees at all?Be nice, they say. Be you, they tell us. But does anyone offer this? I have come here to undress (so-to-speak) in the sense that what I am about...
by kimmel1972 | Aug 10, 2021 | Ben's Blog
And so—There is this word, which I am about to discuss, and yet, this is a word that no one likes to talk about. Then again, who would?Who wants to talk about words like disappointment or worse, who wants to talk about discouragement? Even though we all feel it; we...
by kimmel1972 | Aug 9, 2021 | Ben's Blog
As I sit with my dog, I am thinking about a line taken from Mark Twain that reads:“Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to.”I am thinking about the wholesomeness of his love, my dog, and the way he looks at me. He is an old dog. He does not run or jump the...
