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Rise up. It’s time to become a man

Posted by Joshua Kagi on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

One morning several weeks ago I woke up.
This isn’t astounding or anything since I’ve woken up every morning for 8,786 consecutive days now. However, something life changing happened. It wasn’t a revelation, or an ah-ha moment. I can’t point to the exact second it occurred, but I woke up that morning and I knew something: [...]

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Reflections on cynicism & hope

Posted by Joshua Kagi on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

DevilishDuck.com has a tagline. You may have noticed it before, or maybe you just don’t notice those types of things. For me, and I think most bloggers out there, we find taglines a way to showcase first time visitors what our writings are all about in just a few simple words. For me, “in a struggle between cynicism & hope” reflects who I am on so many different levels.

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A great speech CAN put food on the table

Posted by Joshua Kagi on Friday, February 15th, 2008

With Hilary Clinton’s situation now dire after losing eight consecutive primary contests, she’s turned up the heat on Barack Obama. Since the American people are really buying into Obama’s populist message of hope, the only way to counter it is this…

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Biblical Authority

Posted by Joshua Kagi on Thursday, January 10th, 2008

I’m going to have a moment of honesty with you here, and I’d bet that many of you would consider the following thoughts blasphemous. But if I can’t talk about it with friends, who can I talk about it with? I struggle with the thinking that the bible is an absolute authority.

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Why I began to and continue to blog

Posted by Joshua Kagi on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Something has been on my mind today: Blogging.

A little bit of that thought was wondering what I was going to write today. I hate forcing a topic, so I usually don’t. If there’s a day I don’t have something to write, I won’t. But, today’s content wasn’t what was at the core of my thinking.

Instead I’ve been thinking about why I blog, why you blog, or why anyone blogs.

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Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Hey Sanka, you dead?

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

From the movie Cool Runnings, there’s a line that’s stuck out to me above all the rest, “Hey Sanka, you dead?”
The question was asked of one character to Sanka every time the Jamaican bobsled team the movie portrayed crashed. All but one time Sanka replied, “no mon.” But, once, there was a long hesitation.
Many times, [...]

On life support

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I love writing, I always have. It’s one of those “labors of love” that hardly seems like labor at all. I’ve journaled and then blogged for as long as I can remember. My online writing presence has existed for over ten years now. 
My online writing has been in constant evolution. It began with a passion for college sports, shifted to the uber-personal journal [...]

Putting Your Best Cyberface Forward

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

How do you act on the web? Are you different? Maybe you’re more open? Or possibly you portray yourself as a better, more perfected version of you? Our world is changing to the point that first impressions are now made on the web, not in person. This begs to question, how should we act on the web?

Why I began to and continue to blog

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Something has been on my mind today: Blogging.

A little bit of that thought was wondering what I was going to write today. I hate forcing a topic, so I usually don’t. If there’s a day I don’t have something to write, I won’t. But, today’s content wasn’t what was at the core of my thinking.

Instead I’ve been thinking about why I blog, why you blog, or why anyone blogs.

A New… New Beginning

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

So much for a steady blogging schedule, huh? I made it three days, then missed a week and a half. Oh, well.
The good news is that I’ve sat down and planned out my blogging schedule through New Years, so Lord willing, they’ll be a new post everyday! *For a couple weeks at least*

A New Beginning

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

It’s time for a fresh start.
Part of it is because, frankly, I needed to re-organize everything in my blog and it became such an overwhelming task I didn’t want to do it.
Part of it is because upon my last wordpress upgrade, something somewhere broke, and I was tired of trying to hunt down the source [...]