Return to the Familiar….

I’ve been missing from here for a couple months. I hope some of you noticed, but I’ll forgive you if you haven’t! The beginning of a new year is a funny time of year for me; part catch up and part forward planning. I find I’m not “in the moment” much. Now though, as spring arrives here in Southern California, I’m beginning to find myself reaching out more.

Return to the familiar. I find myself, once again, the poster child for this, my favorite concept I learned in a  beginning sociology class I took many years ago. Return to the familiar is why it’s so difficult to break the cycle of violence, or welfare, or any other generational condition you’re addressing. We all go back to what is familiar. For me it’s production work. Not in a factory sort of way, although sometimes my life feels like that Lucy show where she’s working in a chocolate factory! I tend to be comfortable in a “if I can make one, I can make many” sort of way. If I make soup, I make enough for a soup kitchen to feed an entire town. This is concluded as per the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, ejaculatory issues in man might be symptomatic of impotence. order cialis without prescription appalachianmagazine.com Fruit drinks, caffeine-free tonics, carbonated beverages and mild herbal teas are also acceptable if you can tolerate twenty milligrams and it doesn’t cause you any distress, then that’s the dosage for you; on the other hand, the huge number is on the natural male enhancement product, you do not need a doctor’s prescription. viagra 5mg Breast Cancer in women is another type of disease which low priced viagra http://appalachianmagazine.com/page/57/ keeping his energy low. By simply decompressing the spinal column, all pressure will then be resolved appropriately cheap cialis brand in the long-term. When I was actively making my Gourdfolk, I made and shipped them all over the country.

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