The Golden Dinosaur | Jean Berkompas https://www.goldendinosaur.com/ Ruminations on Life Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:43:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.goldendinosaur.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Jeans-Profile-Picture.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 The Golden Dinosaur | Jean Berkompas https://www.goldendinosaur.com/ 32 32 97086120 Superiority Complex https://www.goldendinosaur.com/superiority-complex/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/superiority-complex/#respond Sat, 15 Mar 2025 13:40:20 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=690 I find it incredibly interesting that, now some 4 months post-election, there are people still flying their Trump flags. I know they are happy he’s the new president, even though he still lost the popular vote (all three times he … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.goldendinosaur.com/superiority-complex/feed/ 0 690 A New World Order https://www.goldendinosaur.com/a-new-world-order/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/a-new-world-order/#comments Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:03:09 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=683 There is a new world order coming, can you feel it? A shift. A cataclysmic shift to the right. To dictatorships. To authoritarianism. To Christian theocracy dominated by white, male, heterosexual men. And I am frightened for this world of … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.goldendinosaur.com/a-new-world-order/feed/ 2 683 Rebellions are Built on Hope https://www.goldendinosaur.com/rebellions-are-built-on-hope/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/rebellions-are-built-on-hope/#comments Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:21:17 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=671 Rebel Alliance Council Member: “If the Empire has this kind of power, what chance do we have?” Jyn Erso, Rebel: “What chance do we have? The question is, what choice? Run. Hide. Plead for mercy. Scatter your forces. You give … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.goldendinosaur.com/rebellions-are-built-on-hope/feed/ 1 671 Choose to Live https://www.goldendinosaur.com/choose-to-live/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/choose-to-live/#comments Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:33:31 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=667 My book, Resistance is Futile!, was about not resisting reality based on the philosophy of Buddhism. It was about facing reality head on and accepting that everything is transitory. Everything begins and ends. Everything is in constant flux. And we … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.goldendinosaur.com/choose-to-live/feed/ 7 667 Caveats & Addendums https://www.goldendinosaur.com/caveats-addendums/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/caveats-addendums/#respond Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:55:21 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=662 This is what I was thinking about early this morning while walking Joey – caveats and addendums in relationships– probably because I have one friend who is now in a fledgling relationship and one who is seeking a partner. And … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.goldendinosaur.com/caveats-addendums/feed/ 0 662 Heartbeats https://www.goldendinosaur.com/heartbeats/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/heartbeats/#comments Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:31:44 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=655 That’s all we are. Each of us, one heartbeat in the life of the universe. One blink of an eye. Insignificant. We exist because of a fluke of nature, where the ingredients of life just happened to meet at the … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.goldendinosaur.com/heartbeats/feed/ 1 655 Team Harris! https://www.goldendinosaur.com/team-harris/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/team-harris/#respond Sun, 28 Jul 2024 13:18:34 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=642 Team Biden lit the torch for his new administration on January 20th, 2021. His team cruised to victory, eclipsing a torn, tattered, scarred, scared, angry, and vengeful regime. And then Team Biden just kept on going. In the winner’s circle, … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.goldendinosaur.com/team-harris/feed/ 0 642 What I Might Tell You… https://www.goldendinosaur.com/what-i-might-tell-you/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/what-i-might-tell-you/#respond Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:02:03 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=635 Let me start with these facts: I am a woman. I am gay. I served honorably in the United States Army for 8 years. For these three reasons I cannot, in good conscience, vote for any republican candidate, and most … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.goldendinosaur.com/what-i-might-tell-you/feed/ 0 635 Where Do You Start When You Don’t Know Where to Start? https://www.goldendinosaur.com/where-do-you-start-when-you-dont-know-where-to-start/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/where-do-you-start-when-you-dont-know-where-to-start/#comments Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:04:11 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=628 I had a fellow dog walker ask me how did I get started writing my book? She said she felt she had a book in her, but she didn’t have a clue where to start? I told her you start … Continue reading →

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]]> https://www.goldendinosaur.com/where-do-you-start-when-you-dont-know-where-to-start/feed/ 5 628 “With Fear for Our Democracy… https://www.goldendinosaur.com/with-fear-for-our-democracy/ https://www.goldendinosaur.com/with-fear-for-our-democracy/#comments Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:37:22 +0000 https://www.goldendinosaur.com/?p=624 …I dissent.” Those are the final words of Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, in her scathing dissent regarding the recent ruling on presidential immunity. We have had some significant, and in my humble opinion, unconscionable, rulings come down from the Supreme … Continue reading →

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