September 26 , 2023 /

REMEMBERING A GRANDFATHER

First, a word about the charcoal drawing of the pair of old shoes.  A friend, Kathleen, who is a poet shared the image with me and others who love her poems.  Her parents purchased this drawing years ago in Denison, Texas. It is signed, “Mott” and the artist could be Clifford Mott. I cannot confirm

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September 19 , 2023 /

STEPPING INTO THE UNKNOWN, AGAIN

Of more than 650 blogs/essays in the past 12 years, “Stepping Into The Unknown” remains popular, although to a lesser degree than when I wrote it 4 years ago.  That it is still read by numerous people makes me wonder how and why some of these blogs are still kicked around at all and others

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September 12 , 2023 /

EXISTENCE, AWARENESS AND BLISS

“I have heard it said that… at the intersection of existence, awareness, and bliss, all divisions will disappear… I look forward to that state.”      Kumud Ajmani, a good friend and moderator of a Sunday morning group called Spirit Chat for the past 12 years, offered that up to the group last Sunday. It is

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August 21 , 2023 /

MAKE A LIST

I was “complaining” to DW about having too much on my mind, too many concerns, and feeling a wee bit overwhelmed and a little stressed.  I want to emphasize “wee bit” and “little” because while I might have been approaching a loss of control, I wasn’t there yet.  Fortunately I am blessed with a partner who listens,

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August 10 , 2023 /

FREE NOT FREE ASSOCIATIONS

I have not seen the movie Oppenheimer yet but it’s on my to do list.  In the middle of this ten day road trip we spent a night in Alamagordo which is about 80 miles south of the Trinity site where the atomic bomb was exploded, some 50 miles southeast of Socorro, NM.  This area,

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July 25 , 2023 /

ANOTHER DECADE

Seven Decades: A Learning Memoir was published in 2013.  It was a record of several watershed learning experiences in each of 7 decades that shaped and influenced me over those years. What follows here is a brief summary of the past decade in a similar way and raising up a few experiences and what I

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