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We grow. We all do. Some grow in weird ways depending on wounds in our life or strangling cares in our environment. We change. Our ideas become more refined and some are outrightly abandoned. If we stop learning and growing we are dying.
I will change my mind. I have changed my mind. There are things I did at 19 out of youthful zeal that I cringe at remembering.  If you are reading this and got caught up in that, I am sorry. Even as I read old blog posts, I wonder at the nuances of things I have written. Am I the same as I was then? I guess that is, in part, what blogging is all about. It is the process of writing down thoughts, feelings, experiences, facts, stories, and connecting it all together. Connecting what is written both internally within the blog and externally to the greater context of politics, geography, and the present moment in the scope of history and culture. 
I explore ideas of art and creativity and responsibility; archaeology and the importance of respecting humanities roots; following Jesus and what does that mean on a global scale; that you, reading this, are important and so is every person walking the face of this blue marble. Don’t get lost.
This is a continued introduction to this blog Everyone Matters: Carpe Aeturnum. Welcome. Feel free to comment.

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