Today's Tendril...

Relationships are often complicated and can get tied in knots. Don't be a force that tightens the knots.

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Today's Tendril... (Remixed)

A good idea is often the casualty of forgetting to remember it later.

 

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Birds of a Feather

Updated 2021.07.05

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Characters Within (Interis Dieagolis) 4

"Sometimes you have to live dangerously in order to live," said Risk, excitedly.

"That's just plain stupid," snapped Common Sense.

"So long as you're willing to start with a bit of forethought, you'll finish with the exhilaration of an adventure without being irresponsible and without being sidelined," said Balance, calmly.

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Today's Tendril... Alone, I Sat

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Today's Tendril...

Some say life is a chapter book. If so, then don't allow the Devil to be your ghost writer.

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Essence of a Father

Eyes of a hawk.

Strike of a viper.

Fire of a dragon.

Heart of a lion.

Soul of a dove.

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Today's Tendril... (Remixed)

A good idea becomes a casualty of good intentions when the prospect of hard work smashes the lightbulb above your head.

 

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Innovation

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Today's Tendril...

Pain is like a jackhammer when you're the asphalt.

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Today's Tendril...

Context sensitive — knowing when to be a fly on the wall and knowing when to be the spider.

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Today's Tendril...

You don't define salvation. Salvation defines you.

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Today's Tendril...

You know you're stressed when you worry about where you left your worry stone.

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Today's Tendril... (Remixed)

A good idea is often the casualty of tweaking, reworking, and basically not leaving well enough alone.

 

About

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Ceremony in the Woods

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Original photograph by M. DeRobertis (Used with kind permission)
Artwork & unreality by C. DeRobertis
Dedicated to D, with deepest thanks

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Today's Tendril...

Striving for perfection should be its own circle of Hell.

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Today's Tendril...

The heart may belong to art, but the wallet belongs to capitalism.

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Today's Tendril...

Sometimes you need to walk in circles before walking the straight line.

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Today's Tendril... (Remixed)

In those "defining moments in life," absolutes tend to become one of three things: Absolute knots Absolutely not Absolutely naught

 

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Today's Tendril... Now and Next

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Nature is Your Church

If nature is your church, then how do you explain...

• Venomous: snakes, spiders, sea creatures
• Alligators, sharks, sea lamprey
• H5N1 Bird Flu, Ebola, Lyme Disease
• Poisonous: plants, frogs, mushrooms
• Ice ages, dinosaur extinction, human evolution – and especially the "evolution" of the human brain, which went from pre-fire "intelligence" to the Big Bang theory in the "blink of an eye" (evolutionarily speaking)

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Today's Tendril...

Perfection is an illusion, and worse, a type of darkness. Striving for it puts you on the path of madness; sadness; pain. Stop thinking, and planning, and "intending to," and start doing.

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Skyway 5: Welcome to My Day

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Updated 2019
Original version released 2015

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Today's Tendril...

The legacy that you'll leave is the life that you live. There are three things that last: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)

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Citation: The Catholic Comparative New Testament: Rheims New Testament, New American Bible, Revised Standard Version, New Revised Standard Version, Jerusalem Bible, New Jerusalem Bible, Good News Translation, Christian Community Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Print.

Today's Tendril...

Detail and derail differ by a letter; a seemingly insignificant, little letter. But it's the little things—the details—that matter. Beware the details, for they may derail you.

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Today's Tendril...

Arrogance is a boomerang. Release at your own risk.

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Today's Tendril...

If compassion is a bridge, then pride is a wall.

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Today's Tendril...

Having the couch all to yourself is wonderful. Sharing the couch with loved ones is better.

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Alive Awake Aware III

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Today's Tendril...

You make the ultimate sacrifice only once. Then, you observe the result from either Heaven or Hell.

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