Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Power of a 10-Minute Meltdown
I’m sure you can relate. Likely there is too much on your plate right now. Life seems like a crazy balancing act. There’s barely enough room for a few moments with people you love. While there may be a lot of good, no, great things happening, there are limited moments to stop, take a breath…
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The Least of These, Reminding us the potential cost of following Christ
I don’t often think about the daily lives of missionaries around the world. While I live in my all-American, suburban fixer-upper, I get comfortable. I may not take my daily time with Christ as seriously as I should. I don’t live in a sense of taking everything to the Lord in prayer. I get stuck…
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Review: Social Animals.
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to attend a screening of the new documentary, SOCIAL ANIMALS that just released in December. (Mind you – this is not the fictional movie Social Animals that also came out in 2018. That film looks terrible. Avoid at all costs!!!) I’m talking about the documentary SOCIAL ANIMALS. SOCIAL…
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Finding Gratitude in Each Day
Have you noticed? All the New Year stuff is already starting to fade. While we are just 2 weeks into 2019, the healthy food sales are starting to wane. TV ads are changing back from Planet Fitness and Orangetheory to Papa Johns and Miller Lite. Keto and Whole30 are being exchanged for Valentine’s Day Chocolates.…
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A New Year – A Challenge to Lobsters Everywhere
What the heck? I’m starting to read the book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos to kick off this year. And I’m thinking of using the book as a month-by-month guide. One chapter each month. One rule to set into place. One new mind-set to focus on. The first chapter is titled “Stand…
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PARIS To PITTSBURGH
I get a little leery when documentaries come out about things like climate change. Are they trustworthy? Is the film made with a huge agenda? Does the film let emotion overtake science, or equally annoying to me – does the science overtake the reality of daily life? And when I saw that Bloomberg was creating…
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It’s your birthday — Get some FREE STUFF!
I love getting free stuff for my birthday. I mean, why not? If a restaurant wants to give me lunch, or a coffee, then by all means! It would be a terrible thing for me to waste these opportunities…right? And because you’re one of our loyal readers, I wanted to make sure you knew how…
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MARS – Nat Geo’s Compelling Docu-Drama – Launches Season 2
I love science stuff. But I was never good at math. Or physics. Or chemistry. Or science for that matter. Yet I can’t get enough of it.And space travel? Just the idea that the final frontier may be in reach makesme giddy. And so the MARS series on Nat Geo has become a guilty pleasure.…
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A little encouragement with loved+blessed!
Have you never just needed a quick boost of encouragement? You’re mid a tough season. You hope a silver lining is on the horizon – but even if there isn’t, you just have to keep moving. Or maybe you have a friend who is walking in those shoes. Someone you care about needs a little…
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The first half of 2018…what the heck does it mean to be healthy anyway?
It’s hard to stay healthy in certain seasons of life – isn’t it? To me, May is right up there with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Super Bowl. In our home, it’s a month that is filled with birthdays, Mother’s Day, graduation parties, sports-viewings (so many sports), end of school events, city festivals…the list goes on…
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