Ani Was Writing

   "So, you are really going to start all of this again?" Ora asks as she stares at the whiteboard calendar above my bathroom sink. I replaced my mirror in there with that to give myself more reminders to get my stuff done. I busy myself with blog post writing to avoid more of her condescending attempts at a conversation. "You know, I hope it does work out for you." She notices I haven't really responded to her. "I mean, after all, I want to be able to be seen around an attractive woman, not-"   I duck my head as I feel the whoosh of a blade over my head. I look over to see a scythe pinning Ora to the nearby wall. I glance to my other side to see Amethyst with a scowl. "She is an attractive woman already. Her desire to change her body will enhance that and give her more internal and external strength." She retorts on my behalf. I can sense cold daggers hidden in her words.    Ora looks to Amethyst, then to me. "At least she is better tha...

   The day I am writing this in my notebook (15 March), one of my bus riders was suspended for the rest of the week from school. I took him home as usual, then my bus driver and I found out when we finished for the day. When we went to pick him up, we heard him yelling and screaming at the teacher and purposefully staying away from the teacher.    Now, just at first glance, I suspect that you scoffed at his behavior and judged him to be a terrible kid. I wouldn't lame you. He appears that way, even to me on certain days. With this in mind, I would like to offer an observation that is a slight tangent to this.    When a child is being well-behaved, we as adults or older teenagers tend to leave that child alone. They are well-behaved, so why wouldn't we? Then a misbehaving child comes along and we want to watch them like a hawk and control what they are allowed or not allowed to say or do very strictly. We hover over that kid and make sure they toe the behavi...

   So, I have a question that has genuinely puzzled me ever since I was a certified adult (and by that, I mean when I was 21). It concerns a trail of re-occurring details that I find a bit confusing. The question is this: Were there any actual demands for offerings and sacrifices before God asked for them after the exodus of the tribes of Israel?    I understand that there are possible answers, but I'm not sure if they give a full answer. The first answer I can think of is, "Moses added it to the accounts." But why would he want to do that? What would give Moses the idea to add sacrificial offerings and altar-building to the stories told before the exodus from Egypt? There is a possibility that someone else added it instead of Moses, but the questions only build from there without answering the initial question.    The other answer I can think of is that it was borrowed from other nations or communities soon after the fall of man mentioned in Genesis 3 and/...

       People are wild creatures, and that is me included. It has been a wild and annoying day dealing with people who didn't think like I did and took way too long to process things. It might just be me. It just gets really frustrating when I have to wait and be patient with others.  - March 2, 2021 Personal Journal Entry ~     I find that a lot of my life is rather self-centered. Of course, that is a bit of an obvious statement on first glance; the sun rises, the sun sets, your life from your perspective is self-centered. If I do what I usually do and overthink it, this thought reminds me to get off my high horse.      Not everyone is like me. Some people share this frustration, but in the bigger scheme of things, it doesn't matter. In the metaphorical sea of opinions and people, I am merely a drop. My opinion and perspective is -at the end of my life- utterly meaningless.      Sure, this might be just me having a negati...