Forgiveness Discussion
My son sent me a podcast discussion about Forgiveness. While the people in the podcast don’t acknowledge this or distinguish between them enough, there are three
My son sent me a podcast discussion about Forgiveness. While the people in the podcast don’t acknowledge this or distinguish between them enough, there are three
We are going through the book of Luke at church and a really interesting point was made in chapter 4 where Jesus had healed Peter’s
So yesterday I cleaned up some posts that didn’t fit in the blog’s format, but I deleted one that I probably shouldn’t have, and it
So I ran across this poem in the current collection I’m reading. It’s by William Cowper in 1782 and it’s titled The Diverting History of
I’ve been trying to come to grips with what to do about the conflict with my sister. There are two sides warring: 1) confront her
What a weekend. Saturday started off light. Ran over to visit with Mom, and while there my youngest sister and her husband came over. We
Again listening to a few different podcasts on the drive home with discussions between men and women about relationships. A common sentiment underlies all of
Having had to work on patent drawings for the last week, which is kind of a boring, donkey job, I usually put on podcasts and
A video caught my attention today: What makes poems good? Reading through the first of three volumes of English poetry, I thought I’d get the
A theme that pops up fairly regularly in reading poetry is ‘cruel love’. Come away, come away, deathAnd in sad cypres let me be laidFly
“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.