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The Center Of The Universe - A Lifetime Journey

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Genesis Proverbs 22:6 -  Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Thus does the story begin, for, from childhood, mine was a mind conditions to believe everything taught within the confines of conservative presbyterianism. Growing up in the relative tranquility of an "average sized" town in Central Kenya, that was the center of my universe. Nyeri was my entire world, and Nairobi was the big city which I always viewed with big, envious eyes. My dreams were to own a big house in Nairobi, teach at Nairobi University, and have a beautiful wife. As we very well acknowledge (those who have lived past 30 anyway), life doesn't always work according to a set schedule, if it ever does anyway. God, our father, made everything, and kept an eye on everything. He was the absolute center of everything, and life on earth played to his whims. He gave life, he took away life. We were all born sinful, and, by his ascent to earth, and birth of ...

L'état du jour

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2021 is barely 3 months in and already there has been an attempted armed insurrection in the US capitol, a polar vortex that crippled Texas, and a US covid death rate of 519K. For the state of Texas, this has happened before, most recently in 1989 and, in 2011 when natural gas plants reported failures that resulted in rolling blackouts. The state of Texas has a GDP of $1.9 trillion with a capital "T," and still could ill-afford to deal with Winter. According to IMF info, Texas has a larger economy than Brazil (which comes in at 10th at $1.84 trillion), South Korea, and Canada.  While Gross Domestic Product is not an accurate measure of development (unlike HDI, GINI, and per capita income), Texas has always been a state on the move, with some of the world's largest corporations setting up shop in the state, most notably Oracle and Hewlett Packard. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, also set up in Austin TX.  This is the state with the second largest GDP (after California) in the ...