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Randy Elrod

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The Anti-Christ
it was amazing
The Anti-Christ
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Disturbing yet challenging.
Hurt Road: The Music, the Memories, and the Miles Between
really liked it
Hurt Road: The Music, the Memories, and the Miles Between
by Mark Lee
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
it was amazing
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by Carol Tavris
Thought provoking and convicting.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
it was amazing
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann
Captivating.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
it was amazing
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
The usual great writing of Mr. King

goodreads.com

My Other Websites

  • My Art An Online Collection of my Watercolors
  • My Experiences Guided Experiences at the Mountain Retreat of Kalien, TN
  • My Retreat A wilderness retreat in the foothill of the Appalachians near Nashville, TN for people who need rest, relaxation, and solitude.
  • My Videos

Recent Posts

  • Candid Thoughts About Going Forward After Insurrection Day
  • Ten Things That Helped Me Get Through This Year From Hell (Sorry Santa, A Few Are Naughty)
  • I Have Been But Now I Am
  • A Warning To My Followers
  • A Few Random Thoughts On Family, Friends, and Thanksgiving

Category: Four Minute Read

I Have Been But Now I Am

  • randy
  • December 19, 2020December 19, 2020
  • Four Minute Read

I have been too many things to count. I have been a twinkle in the eye of a sixteen-year-old boy. I have been a sperm fast and true and thus a firstborn. I have been dirt poor and filthy rich. I have eaten moldy bread […]

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A Few Random Thoughts On Family, Friends, and Thanksgiving

  • randy
  • November 26, 2020November 26, 2020
  • Four Minute Read

 Family is NOT everything. That is sentimental bullshit. But family is something. For many of us, today is filled with nostalgic memories of a gentler, kinder time—of family members once dear to us now lost to death, divorce, or estrangement. Memories of a life without […]

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Ten Questions At Age Twenty, Forty, and Sixty (Oh How Things Change)

  • randy
  • November 9, 2020November 10, 2020
  • Four Minute Read

James Lipton was famous for these ten interview questions on Inside the Actors Studio. He always asked the same ten questions to the nearly 300 guests who appeared on the show. I posed them to Gina during cocktail hour last night. As we discussed them […]

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The High Cost Of Leaving Christianity

  • randy
  • July 21, 2020July 21, 2020
  • Four Minute Read

It is impossible to overstate the cost of leaving the Christian faith. Departing my belief system has been devastating. Almost ten years later, I still experience intense anger and inception-like dreams about the abuse of growing up in a world of lies. I feel robbed […]

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A Return to Simplicity and A Refusal of Shame

  • randy
  • June 4, 2020
  • Four Minute Read

The past year has been the most enjoyable of my life. This despite the political chaos, the pandemic, the care of an elderly parent, and continued estrangement from my children and grandchildren. It begs the question, why? It was nine years ago this week when […]

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Slut-Shaming, Body-Hating and The Super Bowl 2020 Halftime

  • randy
  • February 4, 2020February 4, 2020
  • Four Minute Read

I’ve never been one to shy away from controversy and candid observations, so here goes. And I enjoy the freedom of having broken the chains of family, cultural, and religious censorship—so I can honestly and publicly say whatever I feel. Imagine that! For the first […]

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The Quest Explained

  • randy
  • February 3, 2020February 3, 2020
  • Four Minute Read

This is not an experience for kids. It’s for adults. Particularly those of us lucky enough to have survived the first part of life. For much of human history—and still in most of the world today—people of our age were usually dead. But today’s increasing […]

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Cruelty Has Never Made Me Smile

  • randy
  • January 4, 2020
  • Four Minute Read

I remember crying and running from the room as the small black and white television in my grandmother’s home beamed a fuzzy rendition of men beating each other to a pulp on “Live Wrestling.” The year was around 1963 and I was five years old. […]

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Why This Creative Fled The Church

  • randy
  • November 3, 2019November 14, 2019
  • Four Minute Read

In the past three decades over five million white adults have left the church. These stark numbers come from recent surveys by Pew and National Opinion Research. Five million. Evangelicals have represented a huge majority of the American population throughout history and in 1991, white […]

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Finding Freedom and Clarity in A World of Chaos

  • randy
  • October 10, 2019November 14, 2019
  • Four Minute Read

We live in a chaotic world. America had 251 mass shootings (in which four or more people were shot) in the first 216 days of 2019. During our leisure time, not counting work, each of us processes 34 gigabytes, or 100,000 words, every day. The […]

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The Anti-Christ
it was amazing
The Anti-Christ
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Disturbing yet challenging.
Hurt Road: The Music, the Memories, and the Miles Between
really liked it
Hurt Road: The Music, the Memories, and the Miles Between
by Mark Lee
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
it was amazing
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by Carol Tavris
Thought provoking and convicting.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
it was amazing
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann
Captivating.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
it was amazing
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
The usual great writing of Mr. King

goodreads.com

My Other Websites

  • My Art An Online Collection of my Watercolors
  • My Experiences Guided Experiences at the Mountain Retreat of Kalien, TN
  • My Retreat A wilderness retreat in the foothill of the Appalachians near Nashville, TN for people who need rest, relaxation, and solitude.
  • My Videos

Recent Posts

  • Candid Thoughts About Going Forward After Insurrection Day
  • Ten Things That Helped Me Get Through This Year From Hell (Sorry Santa, A Few Are Naughty)
  • I Have Been But Now I Am
  • A Warning To My Followers
  • A Few Random Thoughts On Family, Friends, and Thanksgiving
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