Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

      Here comes the sun, and I say, It’s alright!              After twelve, TWELVE, long days of nothing but gray and fog, it rained!  Oh, it was wonderful!  Much as I dislike the dreary gray of constant fog, I do love the rain.  It rained all night Tuesday, but Wednesday morning…

     This is really not a blog post.  New regulations from the FTC require that I disclose my affiliation with Amazon.com whenever I review a book or product they sell.  In order to not weigh down my normal blog posts with a lengthy disclosure every time I mention liking a book or household product, I…

     Sometimes past eras are romanticized in movies and books.  Too often, in my opinion.  My parents both lived through the Great Depression, my father as an adult and my mom as a girl and young teen.  My mom, especially, had plenty of stories to share about those times and very rarely were the stories…

            This has been an extraordinary fall and early winter for us.  We enjoyed what was, for us, some very unusual weather in early December; but we are now “enjoying” our normal winter weather of almost constant, dense fog (which accounts for my dark, blurry inside pictures).  We have been plagued by virus…

     I completed thirty-six books in 2009.  Not as many as I’d hoped to finish, but a good number just the same.  There are two or three more books that I started late in 2009 that I will still finish.  However, most of the unread titles in my reading “basket” will be reshelved for another…

     I spent the last few days of 2009 and the first day or two of 2010 working on a list of goals for this year.  I was blessed to have the encouragement of a wonderful friend, serving as a sounding board via email, which made the process almost fun.  It was labor and time…

     So, what’s new?  Let’s catch up!              Outside my window it’s a stormy day!  Don’t laugh!  In central California that generally means a cold rain and lots of wind.  Then, when the clouds clear, we can enjoy seeing snow on the not-so-distant Sierras.  Today, however, we awoke to just the tiniest,…

     There’s a line in Francis Chan’s book, Crazy Love, that has played over and over in my mind since I finished the book a few weeks ago.  Forgive me for not looking up the quote to give to you verbatim, but the gist of it is this.  We often question God and ask, “Why…

      I’m a little behind the curve when it comes to reading new releases.  I usually have so many books in my reading queue that when a new book that appeals to me is released I just can’t add even one more to the stack.  Passionate Housewives Desperate for God was released at just…