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We do in fact live in a fantasy world.

By Bob Strawn on Friday, January 20, 2023
Within a computer, small electric and magnetic charges flow and are held. These ones and zeros are the gossamer fantasies that rule our world.

How often are you in present tense? How often are you thinking of the past or future? How often are you managing regrets or imagining other outcomes? Our great joys happen when we are living in the moment, but how much time do we spend there? No judgment, as a fantasy writer, I have no …

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Tears

By Bob Strawn on Tuesday, January 17, 2023
ourning is a trait so ancient as to be shared by bird, mammal, and more. What advantage is there to a physical being that would make mourning so universal?

Tears meet physiological needs, but why is sorrow, loss and grief such a universal thing? Is it a remnant passed to us from a depressed reptile, or is there more to all of us, bird, reptile and mammal?

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Watch Your Step

By Bob Strawn on Sunday, January 15, 2023
Doorways to Fairy, other dimensions, and rabbit holes all have bad reputations.

Not sure why we say watch your step. While it may help you avoid tripping, falling or having other issues on rough surfaces, it doesn’t really help you see where you are going.

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Good People, Good!

By Bob Strawn on Friday, January 13, 2023
As people, who imagine that they are in control, put up security walls and move into gated communities, they rarely notice that they have trained themselves to return to their cages.
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Does Even Magic Remain Magical?

By Bob Strawn on Thursday, January 12, 2023
Technology appears less and less like magic as users get comfortable with it.

When my dad was born, switches were rare. As a child he had no plastic toys. At one time these things were magical. Now, meh. Consider how amazing a cell phone would be forty years back.

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Is Compassion a Strength?

By Bob Strawn on Wednesday, January 11, 2023
One of the fundamental thoughts in religion is that which kills us makes us stronger.

Is compassion a weakness, as some would want you to believe, or is is a strength or awareness? Bullies would call it a weakness. Those who are consumed by selfishness would too.

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Go Team!

By Bob Strawn on Tuesday, January 10, 2023
The best defense is avoiding the offensive.
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About Magic

By Bob Strawn on Monday, January 9, 2023
Magic is like money, few understand it, the wise fear it, and everyone wants more. Picture of dark clouds and an antenna

Is magic a metaphor for power or money? I often think so.

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Simple Things May Not Be Simple

By Bob Strawn on Sunday, January 8, 2023
Odds are that if you are reading this, your issues are different from what the quote describes. ‘Electrons drop energy levels and fire photons that raise energy levels in electrons that they collide with. That is how we see each other. Is is a wonder that we understand anything about each other at all.’

Or at least this is how I see things.

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Learn, Even if it’s the Hard Way

By Bob Strawn on Saturday, January 7, 2023
Better to look stupid today, than to be stupid tomorrow.

Been there, done that a lot.

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