I’VE BEEN THINKING…
by Rick Thyne
I've been thinking about being stripped naked.
and about the secrets we keep, and those we tell.
I've been thinking about doing something for no good reason at all.
Just for the pleasure of it.
I've been thinking about character.
We’ve carried on this playful debate for decades. My wife thinks generosity is the most important virtue; I think courage is.
I've been thinking about God and evolution (although not in the ways you might suspect).
I believe deeply in God. At the same time, midway through the first year of my ninth decade, I know with certainty almost nothing at all about God.
I've been thinking about my relationship to anger.
Who gave you permission to speak to anyone, especially to someone you love, with that kind of cruelty?
I've been thinking about old friends.
Who has a seat at your table these days - and who doesn't, anymore?
I've been thinking about Maya Angelou and Good Will Hunting.
History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.
I’ve been thinking about how to have great sex.
The more we talk, the more we realize we’re made for one another.
I’ve been thinking about the worst things I’ve ever done.
Differing studies tells us that women initiate divorce somewhere between sixty and eighty percent of the time.
I’ve been thinking about men, marriage, and midlife divorce.
Differing studies tells us that women initiate divorce somewhere between sixty and eighty percent of the time.
I've been thinking about fantasies of personal transformation.
As New Year's Eve approached, I thought about resolutions I’ve made and failed at in the past.
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Hi, I’m Rick Thyne and I’m grateful that you found your way to these pages. I’ve published two books in the past decade and along the way I’ve discovered that I really love to write. In the news and in so many conversations, I find issues I care about; so I’ve decided to write brief columns about these issues and to share them with you. I hope you’ll write back with your own thoughts and questions. Perhaps in this conversation we’ll find our way to more of the common good that is for me our best hope for a future in which all of us thrive. Thank you again for sharing in these conversations.