Paul’s Blog

I was thinking back this morning about “my ways”. I do much reflection perhaps, compared to the average person, and wonder what I could have (or should have) done differently. Maybe that’s a good thing, considering that I have so many family and close friends who disagree with me so strongly on many [...]

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I’ve been doing alot of reading lately about the experiences of Aldus Huxley and others who have attempted to describe their experiences “outside of time”, when they could touch the ‘eternal’.  It’s really easy to whimsically castigate these guys as prone to ‘flights of fancy’ (epistemologically) or poopoo their prose as ’self-defense’ (psychologically).  How oft it is [...]

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This year (about a week before my birthday, Feb. 4th)  I “sprained” my ankle.

Curiously, my ankle really swelled up fast — the above photos, I took myself with my iphone as I sat in the waiting room of my local clinic about 2 hrs aft of the incident.  I can only guess at how the [...]

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The idea of literary toil and the related concept of long-windedness have been on my mind of late, based on comments I get from time to time about my style of writing. Most of the time though, I see these as diversions or stimulating exercises which are good for the mind. It’s almost like [...]

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Welcome to the world of Paul J. Richardson. I’ve seen a lot of blogs and posts by people on the Internet. Many times, I am amazed at how mean or sick they can be. When I see those, I wonder to myself, what is this person like at work, or when around [...]

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