Category: people watching
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Perspective change
I have discovered in the last year that just about anything can look terrible to you when you are looking at the bad side of things. Or sometimes all it takes is a little reframing to realize that you are thinking too much about the negatives of a situation and not considering the positives at…
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Daily Prompt 9/9/23
Going to a wedding! It’s my wife’s cousin’s wedding-her FAVORITE cousin! He’s an awesome dude. Like super awesome. His brother is the complete opposite. Big brother has a great job as a CPA and just bought a house with his fiance. Little brother wants to be a rapper and just moved into their grandmother’s house…
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Daily Prompt 9/7/23
The personality trait that I think is the most telling about who people are would be whether or not people can laugh at themselves. That’s a huge red flag for me for a bunch of reasons: No one needs to share the most mortifying thing that ever happened to them with complete strangers. But nearly…
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Daily Prompt 9/6/23
The farthest I’ve ever traveled from home was to the Middle East on deployments. There were several times where we had some down time and were able to get off base to see things outside of our very brown and tan world on the base. One of those times was in 2016. A few people…
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Daily Prompt 8/19/23
Morning! I am a morning person. I naturally wake up early and once I wake up, I’m usually all the way up. I like seeing the sun and feeling its warmth on me. I like to get up and get things done early so I can rest later. I am married to a not-morning person…
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Deep thoughts
I’m still thinking about Oppenheimer deep in my brain. It was so intense and there were some parts that I understood so deep in my soul. There were things that scared me and made me feel better and made me wish I was still in the military, even though I was over it by the…
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Daily Prompt 8/6/23
SNEAKERS! I love sneakers. I’ve been addicted to sneakers as long as I can remember. I worked at a sporting goods store in the footwear department a long time ago. It was one of the most enjoyable jobs I’ve ever had. I was great at up-selling, particularly for running shoes as I was running all…
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Daily Prompt 7/3/23
I am worried about a few things in the far distant future like leaving my kids unprepared for when I’m gone, the environment, the culture and political world that surrounds all of us, and if/when people will start acting civil to each other again. I don’t want to think too much about my demise at…
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Unpopular Opinion
I saw Dear Evan Hansen last Saturday. I knew it won a bunch of Tony Awards. I knew it was well loved and very popular. And I did not like it. I loved parts of it, I must admit. There were some great songs. The acting was really good but the characters weren’t as developed…