October 5 , 2023 /

A List of Don’ts and Dos to make good choices.

My editor said this list is a no-brainer.  Don’t think too much.  Do consider whether anything fits and is useful. 1 – Don’t believe everything you hear or read.  Do your own due diligence and draw your own conclusions.   2 – Don’t listen to only one side of a debate or argument.  Do consider

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September 2 , 2023 /

PLAY DAY WEEKEND

This weekend the U,S, is celebrating Labor Day, which began on Tuesday, September 5, 1882 in New York City in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union.  It became a national holiday in 1884 under President Grover Cleveland recognizing the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers in the development

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May 4 , 2023 /

EVOLVING

I search around in this muddled mind of mine, looking for some thoughts or an experience that might work for another blog.  My goal, more or less, is to post a new blog about once a week. I don’t have the discipline to do it every Friday morning or some other specific time like some

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April 1 , 2023 /

LIVING AND DYING

The NY Times published an essay by Dr, Sunita Puri, entitled, “As a Doctor, I Know Being Ready to Die Is an Illusion”  (April 1, 2023)  Here is a link to the article:   https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/opinion/how-to-accept-death.html?campaign_id=39&emc=edit_ty_20230401&instance_id=89027&nl=opinion-today&regi_id=64653268&segment_id=129334&te=1&user_id=d35a90a116e023206cd733283d4a5c66   Here is my response to the NY Times with a brief observation after the letter.   “Dying and death

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March 28 , 2023 /

ANOTHER WALK IN THE WOODS

It is a sunny afternoon and I walk into the woods, toward one of my favorite spots, and look for my sitting log on the west bank of the Santa Cruz River.  As I go deeper into the woods, I think about “forest bathing” and how I might practice that today, immersing myself in the

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March 25 , 2023 /

CHANGING A NAME

I am not changing my name but I am planning to change the name of my blog.  For 12 years it has had the inauspicious and generic title, BLOG. Each Blog has its own title specific to the topic.  It went from being hosted on Blogspot to become a page on my web site managed

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