RANDY ELROD

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My Latest Posts

  • The Spanish Invasion That Never Happened

    I rarely write about political events now that I have established my home in Barcelona, but this past week needs to be addressed. Last week, almost sixty thousand people swam from Morocco toward a Spanish beach in Ceuta. According to Reuters, seventy-two of them died in the water. And within hours, the far right had…

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  • Five Gods Before Me And Now Only One

    Yes, I have violated one (okay, almost all) of the ten commandments. As I’ve grown older, my relationship with gods has become more complex. Count them up, and it looks like promiscuity. Five gods in sixty-eight years, each one demanding worship, each one eventually abandoned. I used to be embarrassed by the list. Now I…

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  • 68. Am I Middle-Aged?

    I turned 68 this year, and as I read a fascinating article in The Atlantic this week, the question hit me: am I still middle-aged? The instinct is to laugh it off. Sixty-eight sounds like a number that should settle the matter. But I’ve spent twenty years building a framework I call The Quest, My Theory of Being, that…

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