Regrets, I’ve had a few

April 15, 2025
no-regrets
Does anyone get out of here without regret for the life we wish we'd lived? Or at least regret for something we didn't do? Life really is a series of opportunity...
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7 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion

What Pearl Harbor teaches us about war

April 7, 2025
Pearl-Harbor
I'm a pacifist, a position I came to later in life. I can't say I ever really thought about war during my life, even though, yes, in college during the late 1960s I...
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7 Comments · Blog, Opinion, Travel

Random thoughts and potpourri

March 24, 2025
random-thoughts
In and out. We misfits are the ones with the ability to enter grief. Death. Trauma. And emerge. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch. My first thought when I read this was that the...
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6 Comments · Inspiration, Opinion, Soul School, Spirituality

Why I love digging into the past

March 11, 2025
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”  ~Joan Didion A while ago,...
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3 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion, Spirituality, Writing

Wabi sabi, kemo sabe

March 4, 2025
wabi-sabi
If I've read one thing about wabi sabi, I've read a hundred in the past five or six years. It's a popular concept found in many forms of Japanese art. Oh, you...
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The day I realized I was not a god

February 25, 2025
not-a-god
I have a god complex. I admit it. I think I know what's best and --if it's something that really matters--- I am not going to be shy about trying to make it...
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How dangerous is Chat GPT?

February 5, 2025
Continuing where I left off with yesterday's post, in which I had asked Chat GPT to write a blog post for me: Imagine a world where all writing and the "thinking"...
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12 Comments · Blog, Opinion

The terrifying power of Chat GPT

February 4, 2025
Chat GPT
A few years ago a friend suggested I let AI write my blog. A non-writer friend. Who obviously had no idea that writing for writers is a means of self expression,...
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9 Comments · Blog, Opinion

The political incorrectness of being “color-blindR

January 21, 2025
color-blind
Fair warning: You might consider this post politically incorrect. My doctor's longtime assistant was preparing to give me a flu shot as we chatted away about a...
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How to survive a loss of any kind

December 16, 2024
how-to-survive-a-loss
No one is immune to loss—it’s part of life. Whether it’s a friend or family member, a beloved pet, a job, our health, a family home or something else, the...
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2 Comments · Inspiration, Opinion

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