To be truly free, search out the truth. Embrace it fully. Expel every lie you live and tell yourself. Hunt down every misbelief, and replace it with truth. Then you will be free.

Jesus said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."

I have never been terribly impressed with medical doctors. An experience this afternoon just reinforced my negative image even more.

My wife had to go to the hospital today. As we walked in the doctor's cubbyhole, he picked up her form and said, "Hmmm, Vicki. What a weird name!"

His name? Natálio Kamatsu. Not exactly your normal José or João either. Was the pot calling the kettle black, but the worst was his horrid manner and lack of respect for the patient.

From what we picked up, he wasn't too respectful of the nurses either.

by Randal Matheny

As near to me as rain's patter on the pane,
Is God come walking down the Garden's lane.

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We've had rain on the Tropic of Capricorn over
the last few days, and I jotted this couplet down
this morning as I watched my daughter at
basketball pratice. The several wet spots on the
concrete bleachers must have inspired me.

Exactly 20 years ago today, one Scott Fahlman must have had a crick in his neck when he typed two little characters on the then-unknown Internet.

:)

The IBM researcher made the Internet smile on 19 September 1982 in an online message. Things have never been the same since.

Now we have winks, frowns, tongues, an entire smiley language.

Moral of the story: careful what you do -- you may change the world without thinking.

Correction: you WILL change the world. The question is, in what way will you do it?

Yesterday I took my 16-year-old son Joel to Sao Paulo to renew his passport. The consulate used to issue it the same day. Now it will take 10 days. All passports are being issued directly from the U.S. Good thing we didn't wait until just a few days before our travel date. As it is, I knocked forward our departure another day.

That also explains why you didn't hear much outta me yesterday.