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________________________________________________________ Time is Running Out (c) 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Some tentative good news on the #CancerOdyssey front. The endoscopy, during my first post-radiation Doctor-visit this week, showed no signs of tumor—from the nostrils all the way to vocal cords, on both left and right. This
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(c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com MyCancerOdyssey Well, now I have received the full measure of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. This is calculated as being the maximum that a human body can endure. I’ve been home, letting my body try to heal itself from the onslaught,
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Happy Everything! ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr, and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Dec 25 (thread) Happy Everything everybody, whatever your celebration, here at the Winter Solstice. Take heart, the Earth-mother is hurtling at 69,000 mph toward that “sweet spot” in her orbit where the North Pole is pointing toward
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Can a Narcissist Be Healed? ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Can a narcissist be healed? Could Donald J. Trump ever become normal, in this life? It doesn’t seem like it. But, I can tell you, from my own life, that it is possible. Like Trump, my
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My Crystal Ball (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Tue Oct 18 (thread) “Eeny, meeny, chili-beanie, the spirits are about to speak,” (from my favorite TV show, as a high school senior, Bullwinkle & Friends) And, SHAZZAYUM! — Here I am six decades later, at Bullwinkle’
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To Religious-Hell and Back (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Our friend Destiney here, is like a lot of other people—myself included, before I was lured into a fundamentalist cult-like, so-called “christian” church. And, I’m still suffering from post-religious-organization-PTSD, 26 yrs later. 2 decades of
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Sacrifice ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Wed Oct 5 (thread) Today, my #MorningMeditations were rather wide-ranging — spanning from the vastness of this particular #Universe, to the logical negation of a “Satan,” to my paternal roots in Indigenous America, to its bloody history of constant warring,
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Past, Present, Future ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com October 3 #CancerOdyssey, #Insomnia & other #WeirdStuff (thread) I’m fasting for a PET scan later this morning. There have been two cycles of chemo now. So, this scan will give a picture of exactly how much the mass
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Questions ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com In human life, Oxymoron and cognitive-dissonance abound — Every mystery solved yields more. When did we awake from a contented existence of mere subsistence To a wondering annoyance of puzzlement over the overhead? Why didn't we stay focused on the
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Theology by Intuition (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Mon Sep 19 (thread) Truth be told, I have a mere college freshman’s knowledge of the great #philosophers, attenuated by 60 years of living a mundane, working-life. But—I do have more than a nodding
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Individualism ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Sun Sep 18 Individualism (thread) No one is really a “rugged individualist,” not even a narcissist (if Trump is any indication.) I mean, who do you know, that’s more worried about what people think about him? He’s
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What is “Real Life”? (c)2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Sat Sep 17 (thread) When we humans say “Life,” to us, it encompasses a vast, complex, ages-long and unfathomably-deep, and unique, essence. But we are wrong. What the first paragraph describes is “Biological Life” — as
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The Gun Lap ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #FirstCuppaJoe for Tue Sep 13 (thread) When you’re looking at the realistic possibility that you might be dead in a few months, you try to make the best of the short time that might be left. You PRIORITIZE…
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A New Genesis ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Introduction Caveat: This speculative narrative assumes, merely from personal logic, that there is a supreme, over-arching, dynamic, intelligence powering the Universe. Tthis is not an anti-religious, anti-Christian, anti-Islam, nor anti-Anything book. As a matter of fact it is a
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Interpretations! ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com FirstCuppaJoe for Sat Sep 3 (thread) When struggling to think of the date— here in the wee-hours in California— I nearly wrote “Sep 11 …” That anniversary is nearing, isn’t it? On September 11, 2001 more than 3,000 innocent Americans died
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My Cancer Odyssey (Originally Tweeted, Aug. 30, 2022) ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com First, my #CancerOdyssey — We saw my ENT surgeon in Sacramento yesterday after completing the first three days of chemo. He was pleased that visually, looking up the nose with his instruments, there was shrinking.