Tales from my head
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Oliver Twist Thompson, known as Olly to all, owns and operates a veterinarian clinic in Winnemucca Nevada. This city of almost eight thousand is intersected by interstate 80, and his clinic gets a lot of walk-in customers from travelers on their way to Tahoe or Vegas. The giant sign that advertises his location was a…
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I went for a walk on the hottest day of the year, so far. 96 Fahrenheit, 36 Celsius. Hot no matter how you measure it. As my feet competed to be in front my mind wandered, and I found myself thinking about an upcoming trip to South Africa. We left there at the start of…
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Cars kill forty thousand people every year in the USA. Guns are used to kill others on average twenty thousand times a year! Another twenty six thousand gun related deaths are suicide. Not counting suicides cars claim twice as many lives as guns. Here is the strange thing: if a person is reckless with a…
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Thoughts! Thoughts lead to feelings, and feelings lead to action. We are just bags of bones and blood, but have a brain that can that run amok and cause us harm. Limiting our thoughts is cheating. I always though it is best if a head can hold two ideas at once. Between right and wrong…
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Bubba Less, christened Bertrand Ferdinand Morrison Less, 46 years ago on good old planet Earth is not a happy colonist. His spacesuit smells like old farts and sweat, and the moment the airlock door opened his nose started itching. There is no way in hell that you can scratch your nose when wearing a space…
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Loss is the flip side of have. There cannot be loss without having something you value. Loss is a terrible thing, but also a wonderful thing. It is terrible because we lost something or someone we held dear, and wonderful because we had someone or something special for a while. We can loose people to…
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We are what we eat! There is more to that saying I think. We are what we consume. Food, thoughts and ideas, all these things makes us what we are and directly influences our thinking. Considering that thinking sets our behavior, and our behavior determines our world, we really need to consume carefully, and develop…
Tales from my head 