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Waking Up

Richard CummingsEssays, Life, My A-Musings 2 Comments

There are many different ways to wake up.  You can’t control them; they just are. I liked the way I woke today.  Normally, I wouldn’t have liked it because I woke up too early.  When you wake up too early, it often means that you did not get enough sleep.  Who wants to start a new day without enough sleep …

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Are You Feeling Lucky?

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Are you feeling lucky?  There’s a lottery going on right now and you could run out and buy a ticket. Do you know that today, there are hundreds of people who are going to visit google or other search engines and type in the following:  “What are the most lucky mega numbers played?”  You might be one of them. But …

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Priests: Presumed Guilty

Richard CummingsLife, My A-Musings 1 Comment

My uncle just came by for a visit.  My uncle is a priest, a Jesuit priest no less.  If you want to get technical, they’re super-priests. My uncle has like 5 masters degrees.  Jesuits are uber-educated as they have to study for like 13 years before becoming full-fledged Jesuits.  It’s great-you to get to keep going to school well beyond …

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My Condition

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The word for it  currently escapes me.  (I think that it will come to me within two paragraphs).  But I am semi-it. I haven’t even had two sips of coffee yet and I don’t know that the brain is turned on.  Although, when I was in bed, debating whether to arise, thoughts were rapid-fire but in a mellow feel good …

Contacting Paulo Coelho, Part II

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(click here to read part I of the story) David knew what that normal life entailed.  He had lived it the past 5 years.  At 28, he thought, if I go back now, that will be it.  I will probably never return.  And he was probably right. A traveler who returns home from his journeys always wants to travel again.  …

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Contacting Paulo Coelho…

Richard CummingsEssays, Life, Personal Development 2 Comments

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.   Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist I am seated in South America writing.  Would I be seated here writing Contacting Paulo Coelho were it not for The Alchemist?  Probably, but not certainly.

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Beyond the iPad: The True Legacy of Steve Jobs

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legacy of Steve JobsFor many, the legacy of Steve Jobs may be the device you hold in your hand or the computer on which you are reading this right now. But the true legacy of Steve Jobs is not one of technology, but of life.

In the many accounts of the life of Steve Jobs recently written, we read articles such as how Steve Jobs changed the way we interact with music and how Steve Jobs Told Us What We Needed Before We Knew. Certainly, Steve Jobs will be remembered 100 years from now for the way he created the perfect marriage between art and technology.

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What Happened Today

Richard CummingsEssays, Life 1 Comment

This is an essay I wrote way back in 1992. I keep it hear on A Rich Idea for those who may want to let some words of reflection trickle across their being.             The day is done and the darkness falls from the wings of night as a feather wafted downward from an eagle in flight.  Yep, it’s true.  …