Metaphysics

Out of the Blue

by bdunn on May 7, 2013

in Metaphysics

The Bible is, needless to say, filled with stories in which God speaks, sometimes at length, to the protagonist. Yet today, I suspect even steady church-goers would look askance at anyone who told them he or she took some action because God told them to. Thus it is with some hesitancy that I admit in [...]

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When Evil Stalks The Cities

by bdunn on April 16, 2013

in Metaphysics, Writing

I’m writing today in order to stop myself from reading the endless reports on the bombing of the innocents at yesterday’s Boston Marathon. The authorities have not yet identified the particular tools of the devil responsible for the atrocity, and thus media outlets are left to endlessly update and repeat the extent of the deaths [...]

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Peace Through Manual Labor

by bdunn on September 17, 2012

in Farm, Metaphysics, This Damn Old House

As I’ve worked through my grief over dad’s illness and death, I’ve found quiet relief, oddly enough, in rote, menial labor. This is good, because we’ve been spending so much time reclaiming land and renovating the Polka Farm that I’ve neglected the grounds here at the One Acre Ranch for weeks. Long enough that unwanted [...]

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Transitions

by bdunn on September 16, 2012

in Metaphysics

My dad died this morning. He’d been sick for many weeks. In the end death was a blessing that ended his suffering. He was a champion father, the best a person could have hoped for. He worked really hard for decades to give six kids the best possible start in life. I didn’t realize how [...]

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Ketchup

by bdunn on September 12, 2012

in Metaphysics

I’m perpetually behind, it seems, and running to catch up. First it was Isaac, the hurricane. Initially forecast to blaze up the middle of Florida, so I flew in to Orlando to help my parents batten down their house and prepare for the storm or run from it. They are originally from Ohio, and spent [...]

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Riding The Hayfield To Heaven

by bdunn on August 21, 2012

in Farm, Metaphysics

The sun had just dropped below the horizon and the sky was much darker than it appears from this digitally doctored photo. We’d gathered to watch the stars, but instead I watched my kids ride off into the dusk on a hayfield that stretched to the edge of forever. Farmer extraordinaire Robert M., from just [...]

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Free Will vs. Divine Transactional Intervention

by bdunn on March 5, 2012

in Farm, Metaphysics

A year ago, after our deal to buy a farmette fell through, I felt ruderless and a little lost. I thought those few acres in Wharton County represented a diamond in the rough, and a sign from Above that we were on track to do something worthwhile, maybe a fruit and produce venture that could [...]

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