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For What Its Worth
With the COVID-19 virus affecting our way of living, can we now call it “The New Normal?” Continue reading
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Big Enough
“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” ~ John C. Maxwell Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
We could all use a time out, from the seemingly, neverending media barrage of the Coronavirus. So far, I have been going about the days, and not getting myself all worked up about it. Continue reading
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A Sheet Of Paper
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. Friedrich Nietzsche Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Toilet paper, hand sanitizer among other things. Really? Continue reading
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City Life
I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. Michael Douglas Continue reading
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Make Coffee
I believe humans get a lot done, not because we’re smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. Flash Rosenberg Continue reading
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Music Language
Music is the one universal language. It’s your best friend when the chips are down, and it’s better than any energy drink when you’re feeling it. Dave Smalley Continue reading
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Tragedy And Comedy
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. Jeannette Walls Continue reading
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Backpack
So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life. Henry Rollins Continue reading
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Needle In A Haystack
It’s a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don’t find it. If you don’t give a damn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack. P. G. Wodehouse Continue reading
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When It’s Time
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” ~ Jimi Hendrix Continue reading
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Enjoy The Day
“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” ~ Horace Continue reading
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Gilded Age
The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect. William J. Clinton Continue reading
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No such thing
“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.” ~ Henry Rollins Continue reading
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Time Capsules
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. Alfred Hitchcock Continue reading
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No man has the right to dictate …..
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. -Ansel Adams, American Photographer Continue reading
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Success Is Learned
Success isn’t something that just happens – success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. -Sparky Anderson Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Animals and birds, know no borders. On the other hand, mankind knows where the borders are, and there lies the problem. Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Idle thoughts Idle mind Its like living in a different time zone Continue reading
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So long as the universe had a beginning …..
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? ~Stephen Hawking Continue reading
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Conquering Some Fear
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Food Security
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. ~Bill Gates Continue reading
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Food is as important as energy….
Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together. ~Louise Fresco Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
When the mind is passive, then I know that I am with peace with myself. Continue reading
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Making Excuses
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin Continue reading
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Order & Chaos
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. -Kerry Thomley Continue reading
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Bookish Homeless People
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They’re bookish homeless people. -Lisa Yuskavage Continue reading
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Poor People And The Homeless
You can spend the money on new housing for the poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. -Jello Biafra Continue reading
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The present and the past …..
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn’t be in flashback. ~Alain Resnais Continue reading
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Walk Beside Me …..
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus Continue reading
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Fill Your Life Up With Ideas
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin” Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Monday’s weather was strange. Rain, snow, freezing rain, constantly flipping around. It was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type of day. Continue reading
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Okay So …..
2020 is a leap year. So February has 29 days, meaning we will have to wait one extra day for Spring to begin. Continue reading
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Walking Outdoors Is On Hold
Miserable, shitty weather, means I will resort to being the ‘hall monitor,’ thing, and do my walking in the halls and stairways. The plus side of it, is not having to wear a coat, and also get to smell the different aromas of the various meals, that are being concocted. Does it make me hungry, Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
The future is staring right in front of you. Make the best of it. Continue reading
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Uninteresting Life
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. ~Mark Twain Continue reading
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Conquering Fear
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays (1950) “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish” Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
The past is history. Time to move on. Continue reading
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For What Its Worth
Thinking positive about one’s self, is a good thing. Continue reading
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No Insulin Needed
As of today (12/28), it will be three months of not having to inject insulin of any kind. It feels good knowing that I don’t need it anymore, unless I screw up by having to much sugar in one day. If the high reading doesn’t go down within a day and a half or so, Continue reading
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Walking Is My Go To
Most days, I go on a few walks. Some long, some short. It helps immensely with burning off the sugar and carbs. I am happy with the glucose reading(s), as the are generally in the 90s to the low 100s. The end result: one happy camper. Continue reading
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The world we see ……
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” ~William James Continue reading
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“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.” ~Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books Continue reading
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No one has ever died, from an over exposure to education. ~Robert M. Hensel
Robert M. Hensel, Spanish Poet-Writer Continue reading
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Clear Labeling For Genetically Modified Food
Europe believes that providing clear labeling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by vast majority of states in the U.S. -Zac Goldsmith Continue reading
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Rose Bushes
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
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Problems of the world…..
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist Continue reading
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Beautiful People
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not Continue reading
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Great News
Saw the diabetes doc (on Tuesday), and the great news is that my A1c is 6.2 which is good. No need for insulin which I have stopped using since the end of September. I only need to see him one more time, that being at the beginning of June. He told me I was doing Continue reading
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The morning cup of coffee …..
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Continue reading
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People spend to much time finding other people to blame …..
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. -J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer – 1954 – Continue reading
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Life is …..
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary. ~Albert Einstein Continue reading
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There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author Continue reading
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