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The Desperate Smugness of a Recent Convert

We've all seen it their cloying intensity to the new cause: tobacco cessation, gluten-free digestion, mindful rumination, deep cleanse elimination, erotic poetry, for the lucky erotic reality, alcohol abstinence, Yahweh's deliverance. And we can only smile and nod knowing this too will pass.

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Debbie Guzzi

Date: 12/1/2014 7:49:00 AM

So nice to read your writing this morning & so true. Life itself is an addiction. Light & Love

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 12/1/2014 12:51:00 PM

Thanks Debbie, wiht life at leaste, teh addiction is preferable to the alternative. Cheers Dave

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 11/30/2014 12:17:00 PM

hahaha. I love this one. I have to admit, when I was doing the Atkins diet, I was very joyful and telling all my friends. Of course, it passed. who can go more than a few years without GREAT CARBS?

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 12/1/2014 7:05:00 AM

Thanks Andrea, yes some cards offer comfort too .We have friends on paleo and ketonic diets which seem to work for them but as in many things, the middle path may be best.

Arthur Vaso

Date: 11/22/2014 10:14:00 PM

I dont smoke, yes I am a glutton, is gluten plural for that? Now who doesn't love erotic poetry, and drinking is well a sin, a darn sin I tell you, well if you drink between 3.am and 3.15 am, otherwise its a hell of a lot of fun, now after dinner, lots of things "pass" Needless to say I loved this poem! Cheers, a fellow Canuck!

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 11/23/2014 10:23:00 AM

Thanks Arthur, always good to hear from a fellow Canuk. If you follow the Raptors it's We the North.

Carol Eastman

Date: 11/18/2014 9:14:00 AM

Try to tell that to my West Coast, Oregon family... They just keep getting freaker and freaker in what they believe... They just told me it's the God given truth that before harvesting wheat... a farmer deluges the field in herbicies to dry the crops out... PS. I live among wheat fields... They do NO such thing... LOL.. Truth is stranger than fiction...

D.W. Rodgers
Date: 11/18/2014 9:56:00 AM

Carol, thanks for this and all your other comments, they are most appreciated. And yes, I like many have been on boht sides of this particular situation.