In which my own deep thoughts are on backorder, so I give you links instead
You might be surprised to learn that I don't think about deep things all day long.
Yesterday at the dinner table I lost my stern mom composure laughing at second grade fart humor.
Last night I dreamed we were moving to a new rental house with walk-in closets and a two-story great room. I woke up disappointed and inexplicably angry at the loose handle on the dark and dated oak cabinet housing the coffee mugs.
Today during my early morning algebra review (long story for another day, but yes, I'm relearning math via Kahn Academy), I tuned out of the moving train word problem to peak at Facebook on my phone, which prompted me to ponder and then half-heartedly tally how many states and countries I've visited and how many foods out of the 100 I've tried. Of course I didn't click on the app to take those tests because I didn't want people to think I was wasting my time on stupid quizzes, and at 5:30 a.m. no less. But whatever respect I preserved by abstaining from the quizzes, I just lost by telling you about it using a sentence that desperately wanted to be a paragraph. (Note to self: commas do not solve everything, especially not run-on sentences and moving train word problems).
I've been getting up early because Larry goes to work at o'dark-thirty, and I want five minutes with him before he goes. And because the health of our marriage hinges on the one selfless act I do without fail--getting up to make the coffee. I'm kidding. But not really. Because whenever we get into ugly fights, the faithful all-hours-of-the-morning coffee-making is the only thing I can consistently pull out of my points jar to prove how unselfish and wonderful I am. Sad, but true.
So all that to say that I don't think about deep things all day long. But I do appreciate when other people think them. And since my Delicious feed is no longer working on the sidebar, I figured I would share a few articles and posts that made me think, made me sigh with recognition, made me say "amen", and made me want to spend less time almost-but-not-quite taking Facebook quizzes.
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