I will miss him this week but I secretly know he won’t miss me. This is my boy growing up and I am elated to see it happening right before my eyes.
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My opinions are steadfast at times and even stubborn. This is despite the fact that I know opinions are not reliable in rhetoric unless used in an effective emotional way. I had 2 opinions change tonight: 1) The fact that Google is not 100% evil since they gave me back my pageRank 4 -and- 2) [...]
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I was out by the pool this weekend and spent some time in between swims with my best friend Eric Stefani and my son “flying” on the trampoline.
This was an excellent “exercise in play” and as a result my mind is filled with creative possibilities. Anyway, I picked 8 to post. Just [...]
Our parents occupy a space in our psyches that determines so many of our thought patterns. It starts when we are very young babies and continues on until even after they pass away and we ourselves become the unique parents and grandparents. If we are fortunate, our parents are people we can and [...]
I got that title from an old Alarm song. It’s a great tune with an even greater message for the visionaries among us in 2008.
Instead of waiting for others to be our inspiration, we have to be the inspiration to others AND to ourselves.
As you may have gathered from this series’ title, I grew [...]
By Damien Riley
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