If you are a senior or plan to become one, pay attention!

May 17, 2025
pay-attention
I'm just going to cut to the chase, so pay attention: We are not immortal. As we age, stuff happens that we can not control. It is vitally important that we make plans that include what will happen to us should we become incapacitated physically or mentally as we age. Because if we do...
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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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The most effective antidote for stressful times

April 4, 2025
aspirations
I'll just cut to the chase. We're living in stressful times. Uncharted, even. How are we to handle it and still maintain our equilibrium? It ain't easy. But I've...
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How to dance the dance of life in the midst of chaos

March 31, 2025
dance-of-life
Seems crazy, doesn't it? To think of dancing anything, including the dance of life, while so much around us is being demolished. When many of us can feel only fear....
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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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The day I admitted I was a mindreader

March 20, 2025
mindreader
When I was a child I could read people's minds. I usually knew what people were thinking. All people who interacted with me. Adults or children. I was a...
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How to trust the Universe

March 18, 2025
trust-the-universe
That's actually a question. Because I don't know how to trust the Universe. I'm not a particularly trusting person. Yep. It's true. I have always been the...
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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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Is it too early to celebrate springtime?

March 9, 2025
Spring is just around the corner! I keep telling myself that, as I sit in our hometown of Rochestesr, NY looking at the remants of some big snowstorms and expecting...
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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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