Christian hard SciFi writer. Software PM. TNSG Staff Sergeant. Married foster dad. I’m not buying your promo program.
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How do you discern truth from fiction if thinking itself is augmented by AI? The Keyes Protocol explores this from a spiritual and technical perspective in the setting of an action sci-fi thriller.
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My dad had money; as his POA I found the nicest place in the area for him. It cost nearly $10k/mo and still occasionally smelled like shit when I came to visit him in memory care. Demented people shit themselves. They die suddenly. They eat unseasoned food. They are cared for by med students transitioning through college or older caregivers needing a job. There will always be an air of this around such places, no matter how nice their lobbies are. It’s sad but it’s true.
I cried every time I visited him. He cried when I left. But I am glad he was there instead of in my home because it allowed me to visit as a son instead of live as his nurse and administrator. Those last few months are precious in their grief, and changed me for the better.
Showing up makes the difference. At the end when he couldn’t even speak, his face recognized mine and I just held him.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.”
Sometimes I wish my boy could grow up temporarily so I can show him some of the best R rated movies, then send him back to 12 so we can continue enjoying his youth together.
When I was 5, I made pressed dried flower artwork. I won grand prize in the state fair for making one that was a self portrait.
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The real problem is not that some Christians watch The Exorcist; it’s that most Christian storytelling has become allergic to difficulty. Scripture itself is full of violence, dread, betrayal, and unresolved tension. The tradition that produced Dante, the medieval mystery plays, and the older Gothic imagination did not treat “Do not fear” as a content restriction. It treated it as a moral orientation inside stories that took evil and judgment seriously. Once that is abandoned, what remains is usually sentimental and unconvincing—precisely because it refuses the conditions under which faith actually has to operate. Horror is not mandatory, but a culture that can no longer tell a hard story is not healthier for the loss.
I love how simple kids are. Want to get to know someone? Ask them what they like to eat, their favorite color, if they want to see something cool that you have or know how to do. Easy peasy. Now you’re friends.
Finished reading The Three Meter Zone by J. D. Pendry. While this book is written for NCOs seeking to be better leaders it’s quite applicable to everyone in leadership. His first major point is every organization, including yours, has a list of values they make people memorize. But very few people take the time to write down what these values (and others they highly esteem) actually mean to them.
He tells a story of being a CSM assigned to a new battalion and meeting with his new XO. He came expecting a lecture where the XO tells him what his job will be. Instead, the XO shared his own values, how he wants to be talked to, and how he wants to be held accountable. This established a clear idea of who the leader was and made their time working together much more productive.
Yesterday at our church youth retreat a teenager said I’m like his church dad, meaning he loves me and looks up to me as a role model. It’s an honor I never expected and am greatly humbled by.
Nods while turning up Paul Robeson’s “Ballad for Americans.”
America has a gun
With (very few) apologies to Brian Bilston
England is CCTV.
France, a cop with lock and key.
Greece, once free, now bends the knee.
But, America has a gun.
Sweden jails the ones who fight.
Germany fines bad words at night.
Spain forbids the wrong to write.
But, America has a gun.
Holland fines what words you say.
Canada takes your knives away.
Australia says, "you must Obey."
While America has a gun.
Japan will bow and not resist.
Scotland bans what they won’t miss.
Freedom bleeds, but still exists
Because America has a gun.
Better risk the fatal cost
Than find that liberty was lost.
The price is high,
The fight, embossed
Because America has a gun.
Am I the only one who suspects that rounding up a purchase “for charity” is a great way for the business collecting that on your behalf to get a free tax deduction?
Boy: when we get home can we wrestle?
Me: you said yesterday you were going to practice your clarinet
Boy: my fingers hurt, my diaphragm hurts
Me: they didn’t hurt when you wanted to wrestle though huh?
Boy: 😐🫠
Me: 🤣
