Reading Time: < 1 minuteReturning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking. You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits. —Cindy Ross If you don’t hike, I encourage you to. Perhaps at first five miles seems daunting, but by the end of a season, 40 will be something that your heart longs to have the time to do. When I go hiking, I always take podcasts with me,…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere is a saying among management and engineering experts: “Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting.” I am exactly where my actions have gotten me, and so are you. If you want something different for yourself, you first need to desire change—sitting down and counting the cost, as Luke 14 discusses, is a way to tell if you’ve got the willpower to move foward. If…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat are the chances that anyone has ever shuffled a pack of cards in the same way twice?
Reading Time: 20 minutes15 miles, 6 lakes, and some nice views. Is the hike to Lake Gadsby worth it? This is one where I was left very conflicted.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOffering helpful tips such as, “have a really rotten disposition,” “make dumb, awkward jokes,” and “be sure you’re physically unattractive, or even repulsive, if you can swing that,” he’s done a great deal to curb the spread of the illness.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSanders received word that he also wouldn’t be getting the journalist job he wanted or the role of head prophet for the DNC after problematic past tweets were discovered.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe are seeing a startling rise in the number of infectious-disease specialists; they’re popping up everywhere. Your friends, your family, people who you thought weren’t at risk…one of them will probably specialize in diseases by the end of this briefing.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe extroverts, who have always done better at getting things, such as raises and relationships, were furious that they’re somehow better at getting a virulent contagion, too. None of those in attendance could figure out why it might be happening, though several hundred collapsed in the crowd and were unable to contribute their thoughts.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt the time of this writing, Biden was seen asking an aide to short shares of Studebaker.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUse this page to ask me anything in an open-forum setting through the comment box below. Or, if you’d prefer, you can contact me privately. With love, always, —Luke
Reading Time: < 1 minute“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts…” —C.S. Lewis Ultimately, Hell is just a state where we severe ourselves from our Creator. As a Christian, I think it’s why we need one another. Through Paul, God warned of how dangerous it is to give up hanging out with our Christian family. He warned us not to…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI for one stand with Bernie Sanders: capitalism needs to buy the farm, or better yet, seize it from the landowner by force.
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe Windjammer Landing Resort in St. Lucia was a convenient and pretty stay—it was quiet, had its own beach, and the staff were great.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe bed itself was nice, and in a very pleasant little closet; on the website, this is listed as the “Valhalla Suite.” Well, it wasn’t a full-size bed by any means, but by curling into a circle, I could fit into it with the dog that I shared it with.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUntil-dawn-do-us-part relationships make until-death-do-us-part ones so very hard. They exchange temporary happiness for permanent burdens. Years of memories that could have been shared instead become moribund recollections of “might have beens.” A wife of noble character who can find?She is worth far more than rubies. Proverbs 31:10 I can’t imagine myself finding a ruby and chucking it away. People die with integrity or despair, and the history of companionship goes…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the sole dissenting vote, writing with cutting disagreement that eliminating daylight savings time will “unfairly impede the ability of inmates to milk cows, pasture sheep, and attend to beaver slides.”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhile he seems to have a bit of a stutter, it’s Biden’s “advanced hypermalignant superdementia” that has given the AGS some pause. James Cromwell, the head of the AGS, told reporters in a phone interview,
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAddressing the press corps in the White House, the POTUS reminded people that bone spurs were invaluable in Vietnam. Although he couldn’t personally attend, he said that it still affected him: Agent Orange was in fact where he got the idea for his facial bronzing color.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteExiting the stage in his home state of Delaware, Mr. Biden refused to shake any hands, citing his worries about “catching the leprosy.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisney blatantly shoves Mulan back into the closet, and forces him to erase his clear signs of male identification so that he presents as female and marries a man. This narrative is harmful to all womxn and non-binary folx— Disney specifically targets young girls; an audience that is historically incapable of independent thought.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter ending a bad night neck-and-neck with Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders found himself needing any vote he could possibly get—even Donald Trump’s!
Reading Time: < 1 minute“Just if things don’t go well,” said Sanders, while nervously licking his lips, as his eyes darted hungrily at a Subway bag, though it was empty. “Do you suppose Joe, who I have always respected, will he have a bread line for me?”
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBiden groggily stumbled to a nearby podium, where he promised that, if he’s elected, he’ll repeal the Jim Crow laws, but warned that he has a strong stance on Prohibition, as alcohol is a gateway drug.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe website 538 says that there is a 98% chance that Donald Trump will vote for Bernie Sanders due to the ingenious move.
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat’s it like to have the prettiest view in the world?