CONNECTIONS
What is a connection? Two entities making contact? For a moment in time? For several moments, or a week, month or year? Or more? When we talk of electrical circuits, including the brain, we sometimes refer to a disconnect. When something or someone becomes unplugged and loses a power source, all kinds of interesting things
0CELEBRATING SOLSTICE 2018
This year it’s June 21, at 10:07 GMT and you can figure out the exact time where you are with an easy converter. For us here in PDT in the USA it’s 3:07 AM and I doubt we’ll be up then, but soon afterwards to at least watch the sun rise at it’s northernmost point
0DEPRESSION & SUICIDE
There are numerous categories of labels. Some are intended to be a helpful diagnosis such as DEPRESSION, much in the news lately. Two other labels are ADD/ADHD, and the catch all CANCER wherein you have to specify what kind and where. Those labels and many others in the field of medicine, psychology and education are
0COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU
Here is a line from George Bernard Shaw’s play, “Back to Methuselah” ‘There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?’ This was used by Robert Kennedy during his brief Presidential campaign and shortly afterwards in a eulogy for
0A Different Commencement
It’s that time of year again, graduations at high schools, colleges and universities across the country and 3.6 million high school seniors walking across the stage and picking up diplomas. Have a brief look at this and the conclusions. Greenville High School, Greenville, Ohio, Class of 1955 (Greenville is a town of some 12,000 people
0THE TOP
I read a piece recently touting the achievements of the top performers in a given field. At this point I can’t remember if it was the top 10, 20 or 100 and that doesn’t’ matter. It started me thinking, an often dangerous and subversive activity. My friends call it disruptive and that fits too. Here
0A GIFT FOR THE GRADUATE
Think about 3.6 million high school graduates this Spring who have spent 13 or more years in school. They have been tied to a curriculum that has good intentions for expanding the student’s world of knowledge, understanding and skills requisite for a good education. How then do you answer the question, “What are the marks
0EVERYONE AGES: SOME MORE THAN OTHERS
DIMENSIONS OF AGING – CHANGE IS CERTAIN – EITHER PLANNED OR UNPLANNED There are five dimensions of human activity that are interrelated and interdependent. Those are the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of ourselves and our relationships with others. We tend to treat people along one dimension and focus our energy, time and resources
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