Resilience
A photo made near my home, the subject of which shows signs of age and the scars of some hardship, but is still living and growing.
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A photo made near my home, the subject of which shows signs of age and the scars of some hardship, but is still living and growing.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a…


Yesterday morning, shortly after 5 AM, I noticed that the motion-sensitive floodlight in our backyard was on. Just the day before, I had refilled a bird feeder next to our small patio and spilled some bird seed. It turns out a white-tailed deer decided to stop by for a snack. I was only about six…