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Your Daily Quote: End of the Road
Let’s see who’s paying attention… At this point I’ve come to the end of my file full of inspirational and motivational quotations. It’s not that difficult to dig up more, but the question is, should I?...
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Free Verse: Burned
If you’re not bleeding and you aren’t (currently) on fire then you have no excuses Do one thing one small thing to make you life and the life of those around you a better place even if the only fire is...
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Thought of the Day: Flame
Flame is a powerful symbol. On a practical level, flame gives us light and warmth. It can represent energy, motivation, productivity. We talk about people having a fire in their eye, a fire in the...
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Free Verse: Objectives
Is there an actual intent to any of this or are you trying to impress people with some good old sound and fury Copyright 2013 Berin Kinsman Filed under: blogging & writing Tagged: poetry
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Thought of the Day: Point
We experience the world from a single point, the place in which we stand. It might seem that the world revolves around us, that we’re the center of the universe. That’s simply a trick of perspective. A...
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Berin’s Journal: Genderswap This
A man and a woman are married. One of them works outside the home, has a regular day job, and is the primary breadwinner. The other also has a job but works from home, creating the opportunity to also...
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Thought of the Day: Artist
Art is creation, and that requires a lot more than “talent”. It requires empathy and compassion, the ability to feel and express emotion. It requires a spiritual investment, in addition to the material...
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Thought of the Day: Caring
The old saying is that charity begins at home. A lot of people spin this in the same way they twist around that adage about charity beginning at home: I’ve got mine, I take care of myself and my family...
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How to Never Miss an Update
Other than bookmarking this site and remembering to check it often, there are four great ways to insure that you never miss an update! Subscribe via Email On the sidebar of every page is a simple form...
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Free Verse: Winner Winner
The man was impressed with himself because he’d saved a few pennies shopping smarter at a place that didn’t provide its workers with a living wage to keep its prices low If only all of those poor...
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Thought of the Day: Victory
The principal is simple: Before you can succeed at anything, you need to master self-discipline. This typically gets thrown around as a martial arts or athletic aphorism, but it applies to everything....
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Free Verse: Arrogant
She was waiting for her turn to speak because what the other person was saying was boring and stupid and not nearly as awesome as the great idea she’d heard from someone else twice removed Copyright...
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Thought of the Day: Nonyielding
We live in a world that requires us to fight. We fight for jobs, we fight for promotions, we fight for promotions, we fight for our rights. The sad state of the world is that people tend to view...
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Free Verse: Parenting
When the child in the booth behind me is slapping me in the middle of the back and the parent looks away and pretends not to see what’s going on when I turn around You can’t put all the blame on the...
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Thought of the Day: Fields
A field of expertise, or a career field, needs to be thought of in the same manner as an agricultural field. You don’t grow a field full of wheat or corn or soybeans overnight, an apple orchard doesn’t...
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Free Verse: Rights
I would like to invoke my rights even the ones that I’m not using at the moment before the Supreme Court rules to remove them Copyright 2013 Berin Kinsman Filed under: blogging & writing Tagged:...
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Thought of the Day: Austerities
In our culture people are very quick to say “I can’t”. They don’t believe they can follow a budget, a schedule, an exercise routine, a diet, a plan of action. What they really mean is, “I don’t want...
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Free Verse: Rights 2 – Judicial Boogaloo
You speak of rights as if they’re yours to grant or revoke Human rights are above party ideology Copyright 2013 Berin Kinsman Filed under: blogging & writing Tagged: poetry
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Thought of the Day: Immediacy
Instead of wanting things right now, instead of demanding results right now, instead of insisting upon immediate gratification, why not look around at what’s in front of you, who is in front of you,...
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Head’s Up: Site Upgrades Are Coming
The Asparagus Jumpsuit network of sites — AsparagusJumpsuit.com, BerinKinsman.com, and KatieKinsman.com — will be changing web hosts over the next few days. If you try to access the site and get...
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