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Face Update

July 21, 2023

I’m now about 4 months into having laid off the leukemia meds. I’ve also dropped 20 lbs, so that helps, but being off the meds

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Guns, Fear, and Protection

July 14, 2023

I saw another thought provoking tweet referencing a Washington Post opinion piece by Christine Emba: “Why do Americans want guns? It comes down to one word.”  The

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What is Compassion?

July 11, 2023

There is an interesting thread I ran across on twitter.   https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1678005338589601792 “Whenever I see a tweeter calling for violence or celebrating someone’s death, they

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Face Update

July 2, 2023

It has now been 3 months since I’ve gone off the leukemia meds. Here is a pic from today- 90 days in and 18 lbs

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Female Arousal

June 30, 2023

I read a tweet today, and some follow-ups, that I found really interesting.   A guy had written that women are not sexually aroused by most

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June 2023 Reading

June 29, 2023

Each month this year I’m trying to read at least one political/historical work, and one novel in Italian. Unfortunately, the political works, I’m spending a

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Grateful

June 26, 2023

Our friends are leaving today. They arrived in the states back on June 6th, but didn’t start staying with us until June 14. They are

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.