I’m tired of leaders who confuse outrage for strength.I’m tired of politics as performance art.I’m tired of applause lines that fix nothing.I’m tired of slogans that substitute for substance. I’m tired of everything being “unprecedented.”I’m tired of “breaking news” that only breaks our trust.I’m tired of people more loyal to tribes than to truth.I’m tired... Continue Reading →
Most of us are familiar with the story of the Good Samaritan. A man is beaten and left for dead, ignored by a priest and a Levite, but rescued by a Samaritan, a member of a group despised by Jews at the time. Jesus told the parable (Luke 10:25–37) to answer the question, “Who is... Continue Reading →
AI Prompt: Create a poem about villains longing to hear from their children on fathers day. Fortress of Solitude In lairs and hideouts, far from prying eyes, Where schemes are hatched and vengeance never dies, On this, a day when fathers should rejoice, They sit in silence, waiting for a voice. No cards arrive, no... Continue Reading →
AI Prompt: Write the next chapter in this story. Add in element of discovering a displaced, roving band of people seeking to establish a new settlement. The following morning, the rising sun cast an orange glow on the freshly painted sign. Eliza stretched, her muscles protesting the previous day's exertion. She glanced at Finnigan, already... Continue Reading →
AI Prompt: Write the first chapter of a five-chapter short story called Signposts of Love. This is a story of a road engineer and a graphic artist who are tasked with fixing and repairing the road signs in rural Maine after nuclear war. The wind howled a desolate hymn through the skeletal remains of a... Continue Reading →
AI Prompt: Write a poem about a love letter mailed that arrived thirty years later to a recipient who never found love Solace of Love In a dusty post office corner, forgotten and bare, Lay a letter, yellowed with age and despair. Stamped with love's promise, penned with care, Yet destined for solitude, floating on... Continue Reading →
Mission Statements: Getting Personal If you have delved any depth at all into a company or organization’s website, brochure, or annual report, you have probably at some point come across a page listing their mission statement. Sometimes there will even be vision statements and values listed as well. It seems standard nowadays for companies and... Continue Reading →
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