For the past nine years, one of my office windows, the one I faced while sitting at my desk, gave me a wonderful view east and thus I saw many glorious sunrises in northern New Mexico. I am also linked to the weather wunderground (www.wunderground) which gives me sufficient data to know current and future
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In Louis Menand’s New Yorker (Jan27) review of Scott Stossel’s book, “My Age of Anxiety” (Knopf) Menand gives a fairly good historical perspective on how the topic of anxiety has been researched, described and treated. And, like Stossel’s condition, not a whole lot has changed in the so-called human condition of the reaction to the
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Whether it is with a finger, an arrow or feeling the paper and not a virtual page, it is a new year, a new month and a new day. Remember paper calendars that hung on the wall? Some were from local businesses and presented as a gift at the end of the year. They were
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Morning light revealed a light snowfall that has covered the ground, not more than an inch or two, but as I look out my window to the east, it is a winter wonderland. Just in time for a white Christmas but this snow will not last three days without being refreshed. Our sun melts it
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When we move clocks back and forth, which we do twice a year in almost all of the U.S. it reminds me that once again, we are often manipulated by outside forces over which we have little or no control. One option, not possible for most people, is to ignore the watches and clocks and
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Honest homeless man’s fund over $91K via crowd funding. http://news.yahoo.com/fund-set-honest-homeless-man-raises-91k-060359331.html The story touched enough people that by now it’s probably over $100K. The point here is not his honesty nor the money but what the guy who set up the fund said that I have been “preaching” for over 50 years. Ethan Whittington, who started
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