A Variety of Thoughts About Everything

 As anyone who has followed my ramblings know I have been dealing with Fear my entire life. Or at least as far back as I can remember. And I can remember. For example, the earliest memory that I have I was less than a year old. I was in the backseat of an automobile. In the front seat two people, whom I knew were my Mother and Father, I knew their voices, arguing. About what who knows. What I do know is that I was afraid. Not because of what was said. I had no context yet for Language so the words, that I did not even understand that were words, meant nothing to me. It was the tone, the volume, the vibe, all of it was expressing what I now know as Anger and Fear. And that was the extent of any understanding. Way deep down inside where Language does not exist I Knew that this was bad, danger, etc. And I was afraid. I did not know yet that I was afraid. And again, deep inside where Language did not yet exist, I Knew that this was wrong, and I did not like it. And I am pretty sure tha...

  And Life. Paradox: (Thank you Dictionary.com) 1) a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. “Less is more” is a paradox often repeated in the arts and other fields. It is a paradox of healthy grief that we must work at it while surrendering to it. 2) any person, thing, or situation displaying an apparently contradictory nature. In the media the candidate was called a paradox—an unpopular populist. Synonyms:  riddle, anomaly, puzzle 3) a self-contradictory and false statement, especially one arising from seemingly acceptable premises and correct logical argument. 4) time paradox. 5) Also called  paradox illusion .  an optical illusion depicting an impossible object, often a two-dimensional figure that the viewer intuitively interprets as representing a three-dimensional one, but which cannot actually exist in three dimensions: brought to popular attention especially by the work of M. C. Escher. 6) Ar...