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The inspiration… of a teaspoon of honey. One of the golden rules of running a relay is that you never look behind you for an outstretched baton… but I’ve found that some things being exchanged are just too precious to not visually confirm. Besides, if you’re fast enough… it won’t matter… you’ll make up for it on the back straight anyway. Man, I could’ve sworn I was bigg

April 14, 1992      The Congo I met a Mara named Die, and not one of our visible lifelines intersected. But more than a few invisible ones did. He was my friend. We drifted down the bilharzia filled Tana to the Indian Ocean as the tide was falling too low to turn when the call came to circle back again. The banks were too high and the water too low, so the hull scraped the bottom and threw our 40 foot steamer on it&#

Shakespeare was WRONG!! “To be or not to be” was NEVER the question.  The question is, was, and will always be… to dream or not to dream. First, let’s talk about “dreams”, and exempt all those non-dreams; the “wants”, the “desires”, the “it would be kinda neat to…” etc.  Because a REAL dream is something that drives you every waking moment

Good mothers are of ZENITH importance!!! Today’s Moral Decay You know, they say the devil is in the details.  I agree.  He creeps in incrementally every time we stop paying attention, and in such small amounts that it’s almost imperceptible.  On a day to day basis, the change is hardly even noticeable.  But, over the course of years the current era is almost unrecognizable as a brother of the past.  If we

Let’s revisit, shall we????  B.D.M. is the most VICIOUS DISEASE KNOWN TO MAN!!!  -Sean Patrick Flanery The hard & painful truth.  Like it or not… here it comes!!   Okay, good news and bad news.  The bad news is that there are a large number of things that kill human beings.  The good news is that the VAST majority of these deadly things are avoidable.   That’s right, B.D.M. kills more people per

Today we’re going to talk about some hard truths.  What we’re NOT going to do… is hold hands and sing. -Sean Patrick Flanery Fact # 1:  Every single human out there wants to increase their pleasure and reduce their pain, unless, of course, there is a design flaw. Fact # 2:  I am in possession of a strategy that can ABSOLUTELY increase the pleasure and decrease the pain throughout the course of the l

Breadcrumbs and the “self”  -Sean Patrick Flanery Hello, my name is Sean Patrick Flanery, and I’ve been leaving a trail for the last few years, so I’m glad that you noticed.  I think it’s important that people know who you are, what you stand for, where you’ve been and where you’re going.  But, it’s even MORE important to know all these things about YOURSELF.  The first