February 1 , 2024 /

AND WE’RE OFF

Leaving Friday, February 2, from Mexico City (MEX) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) by way of San Paulo  (GRU).  It’s an overnight flight and I’m hoping for several hours of good sleeping.  This is the beginning of our two-week adventure in South America.   We like to travel, evidenced by 20+ years to a variety

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December 28 , 2023 /

JANUARY IN 55 WORDS

Another “new” year, one after the other, Marked by a special moment in time; Measured in some way, even celebrated. Once we turned the page on a hanging wall calendar Or in a day timer, diary or log Now some digital device gives us day, date and time. Effortless, without even needing to Remember anything.

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December 25 , 2023 /

CHRISTMAS AND STUFF 2023

Orig, 2012  Rev. 2023 A funny thing happened in late 2012 on the way to Best Buy.  I was listening to NPR and an interview with Annie Leonard, author of The Story of Stuff.  If you know the book, then nothing more need be said but if you don’t, the sub-title is “How Our Obsession

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December 18 , 2023 /

WINTER SOLSTICE 2023

Orig. 12/15/18  Rev. 12/18/23 This year’s winter solstice occurs on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023 at 10:27 p.m. Eastern time, 3:27 UTC. according to the Almanac. The Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice always falls on December 21 or 22.  The sun will reach its southernmost point before starting back on its northward trek toward Spring. That’s for

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December 7 , 2023 /

ADVENT 2023

ARRIVING Advent is two-thirds of adventure, the other third being the suffix ure. an abstract-noun suffix of action, and result, occurring in words from French and Latin: pressure; legislature.  In the world of medicine, we have procedures, and established ways of doing something.   My life has been a big adventure and a series of

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January 23 , 2023 /

SHORT WALK, LONG THOUGHTS, DEEP CONNECTIONS

On a cold January afternoon, I step outside the front door and start on a walk, turning south for a block, then east, walking on hard pavement, a street with no sidewalks, a street lined on both sides with houses neatly tucked back from the curb, their double garages facing the street. A variety of

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