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@markrlaidlaw@Supersonic_Red Been through that process as well, but they didn't keep me in the hospital. I did my own shots until I was up on the warfarin. No fun with all the monitoring!
@Supersonic_Red I have personally been through this twice, the first time the clot did go to pulmonary embolisms to the lungs. We rushed to the ER to get scanned, I was already on thinners (warfarin at the time). No lasting complications...thsnk you Jesus!Prayers sent!!
Btw, Social Security was enacted in 1935. Guess how many bills broadly cutting Social Security benefits that Republican majorities have put to a House or Senate vote?
The answer is ZERO. In Social Security's 91 years, GOP majorities have brought ZERO broad cuts to the floor.
If Republicans have really been hell-bent on slashing Social Security benefits, you'd think there would have been some vote on some partisan GOP bill over the past 91 years.
A telltale sign of an ignorant leader is failing to read books.
Fiction builds empathy and imagination. Nonfiction boosts concentration and critical thinking. Not reading fuels mental stagnation.
Leaders who “don't have time to read” are leaders who don't make time to learn.
Work-life balance sounds reasonable. It isn't.
The moment you talk about balancing work against your life, you've already conceded something: That your work isn't part of your life. That it's a cost you pay to get to the time that actually matters. That's not a balance problem; that's a meaning problem.
Now: this isn't about grinding harder. Workaholism is real. So is workism—where work becomes your whole personality, a substitute for genuine human depth. Neither of those is the goal. The goal is integration.
Balance treats work and life as opposing forces to keep in check. Integration treats them as parts of a whole that make each other better. One asks: how much of my life should work take? The other: Does my work belong in my life?
During the Great Resignation, an entire generation quit their jobs. The conversation was almost entirely about balance: protecting life from work. By the end of 2022, a lot of those same people were struggling. The Great Resignation became the Great Regret. Not because quitting is wrong, but because balance without meaning just moves the emptiness somewhere else.
When work belongs in your life, the hours stop feeling like extraction. You're not drained by it: you're fed by it—even on hard days. And what you do outside work—relationships, rest, spiritual life—stops being “recovery from work” and becomes simply the rest of a full life. And it makes the work better, too.
If work feels like something you endure so your real life can happen somewhere else, no amount of boundary-setting fixes that. You can leave at five o'clock every day and still feel hollowed out. The boundary protects the time… but it doesn't fill it.
You're not looking for a better ratio. You're looking for a life where the question of ratio barely comes up—because what you do and who you are have stopped feeling like separate things.
Stop balancing work against your life. Start building a life your work belongs to.
There is not a single Muslim controlled nation in the world that recognizes free speech, freedom of religion, or basic human rights.
There is not a single Muslim controlled region that respects your precious pluralism. Wherever they hold power, they oppress women and persecute Christians.
Yet we have both Protestant and Catholic leadership trying to tell the rank-and-file that we should have some sort of communion with Islam and that we worship the same God.
I pray for every single Muslim to come to Christ. But in the inimitable words of Jack Nicholson in As Good as It Gets, sell crazy somewhere else. We’re all stocked up here.
@JamesClear Live the hiking analogy James! We are big time hikers and welcome more on the roads (trails) less traveled. The world would be a better place if more people got out and hiked!!