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Ben Wright

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Musings: Addictions

Every addiction has its rationalizations.

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Musings: Big Mac attack

This guy dressed in a gorilla suit tried to hold up a McDonald’s in McDonough with a banana as a weapon.

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Musings: Don't fail to plan

Many potential problems can be avoided with proper planning and preparation.

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Musings: Cleverness

The following story involves cleverness at its best and its worst. You be the judge.

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Musings: A Good Laugh

The longer I live the more I realize that we need to laugh more.

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Musings: First Things First

Well, the joke is coming first in this article.

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Musings: Fantasy vs. Reality

Solving this problem is grist for the mill in our society today.

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Musings: On An Island

A few years later, Crusoe nursed an injured, deserted native to good health and taught him many skills.

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Musings: Chosen words

Vice President Bush received a lot of criticism about his statement of introduction.

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Musings: What's in a name?

The Italians have a saying, “Since my house is burning, I may as well warm myself in it.”

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Musings: Real Heroes

While assigned to the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, I observed many training exercises at the Fire Academy.

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Musings: Staying Positive

It is amazing that a sip of water can cause such an uproar.

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Musings: Trial and Error

In every occupation, there is a period of apprenticeship. Through trial and error, usually we discover what our strengths are

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Musings: Future tense

Our existence would be more meaningful if we could learn to share more care and concern for each other.

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Musings: Listen up

It is imperative that we condition ourselves to listen in the present because when the present becomes the past it will surely influence our future.

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Musings: Miracle of Birth

There is an old saying that states; “You should not take what you can’t give.”

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Musings: Wise Consistency

Wise consistency, to me, is the epitome of wisdom.

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Musings: Good Health

To help our bodies remain healthy, we need a proper diet, regular exercise, reasonable rest and to avoid the no-no’s of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs.

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Musings: Blame Game

The solution to education and other fields is that we have to remember to remember to think.

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Musings: Christmas Spirit

The spirit of Santa, to me, is still very much alive and I hope it continues to live.

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Musings: Don't Look Back

Early in my life, Grandpa taught me how to plow a mule. He taught me not to look back to see if the row was straight

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Musings: Role Models

Today, I fear that we really do not know what a quality role model is

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Musings: Putting it in perspective

The message is that we need someone, like a child, to help us keep life in perspective.

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Musings: The Sermon

Jerry Clower tells this story of a potential candidate to preach a trial sermon in this country Baptist church.

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Musings: Backbone

Whether we agree or not, the pastor had a lot of backbone.

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Musings: Murphy's Law

Whoever Murphy is, I know he or she is always on the job.

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Musings: Confidence

In reality, we must remember, it is how we look at things.

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Musings: Pay attention

All of the sudden, this small truck cranks and backs up very fast toward me.

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Musings: The limits of freedom

In reality, limits are a necessity. By setting realistic limits, we enjoy as much freedom as we can tolerate.

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Musings: Defining terms

Terms that have understandable meanings are used as shortcuts in our communication with each other.

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Musings: Less is more

So words and work are similar. Less is sometimes better.

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Musings: Personal responsibility

In reality, it boils down to individual responsibility. A choice has to be made.

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Musings: Taking Credit

At times, we are so prone to take credit, even at great cost.

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Musings: Observations

When you marry the wrong one, you are “finished.”

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Musings: Seeing Beyond

Having an open mind often pays off for us.

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Musings: Disruptions and Eruptions

Mount St. Helens, tornadoes, floods, etc., are just examples of tragedy and upheaval.

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Musings: Change

This system is foreign today, in an age of cell phones and other devices that are remote.

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Musings: The Bare Truth

Why are we so afraid of plain truth?

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Musings: Angels

We believe that this angel in the image of a frog was instrumental in finding her gold bracelet.

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Musings: What's so funny?

What do you call cheese that’s not yours?

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Musings: Timing is Everything

Timing that works to our advantage takes us outside of ourselves.

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Musings: Old Age

Oh, how we look in the wrong places.

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Musings: On Meditation

Lessons from the past help us adjust to the present and to prepare for the future.

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Musings: What is 'normal'?

It is important how we look upon or interpret situations

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Musings: The crime and the criminal

For those of us who believe in the afterlife, there is the concern of the soul. This concern was my purpose for being there.

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Musings: Making it last

One thing I do know from experience is that it is imperative that we must really want our marriages to work.

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Musings: Loose ends

It is amazing how leaving a couple steps out of a process can literally mess up things.

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Musings: Justice and Mercy

It appears that we just want to beat the legal system.

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Musings: Stop, Relax, Think

Good business persons make it a practice to take a half an hour each day and relax in their chair and forget his or her business concerns.

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Musings: Being human

What we can do is to treat all persons with dignity and respect.

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