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That’s what we see in the news these days: weather-related content. The heat dome, rare summer breeze and gathering storm. We have had a lot of warning signs. Signs that say, behave! I can come with forces much greater than yours. Ironically, with so serious a subject like Nuclear Fission, we’ve got Barbillion (new combined…
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Chapter seventeen of Ralph Ellison‘s 1952 novel Invisible Man includes a literary device related to the Saul to Paul conversion: “‘You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a young gun, you Saul, but let life whip your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you…
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That’s the title, the sentiment and the undertow. Not just the broken system, but individual as well. I couldn’t buy a cough medicine without the intervention of a “cashier” (we ‘re de facto cashiers in our new era of pro-sumersim). Fentanyl at the individual level, fantasy at system level. Why the trend toward Far Right?…
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Moment is more “eternal”. One cherishes those moments in time, in memory. Minutes are important, but quite artificial. Minutes were associated with clocking , with our mechanical society: keeping the train on schedule (as we can all attest to travel delay, with all the computers in the world, we are still stuck in airports with…
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It’s Sunday. It is forecasted to be 106 here in town. I understand and have endured cold weather. But this, this record heat, is certifiably unprecedented. What if I – we – don’t live on to see the Heat Waves subside? Brief life we have lived. Never enough time to finish that song, that book…
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It’s the same person, going through “change, change, change” through chronological phases: birth, life, death and burial. A lifetime of accumulation: knowledge, hatred, love, giving and filtering (de-friending to lighten the load and to ease inevitable and eventual goodbye). A product of parental passing-down, we curate friendship, marriage (s), and parenting on. We cannot give…
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Earth cyclical and man-made Climate Change contribute to unbreathable air. For folks with asthma like myself, oh oh. The pill, please. This year (2023) is slated to be the hottest since temperature change first got recorded in 1979. That year, I was with an ABC News crew as an intern, covering the Three-Miles-Island incident. We…
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Can’t select the graphic to catch your eyes. Invisible man (Ralph Ellison). Invisible hand (Adam Smith). But this? like those hollowing of the aftermath? Time heals? Nelson Mandela (I saw Color of Freedom last night) was quoted as saying “Time heals wounds, but not invisible wounds”). How about our man in Louisiana solitary confinement for…
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per Colby, the lessons of Vietnam were partially learned: ” we must not try to determine the leadership of small and far away states whose cultures are different from ours, but that we should be true to our own values of democracy and human rights….” Lost Victory, pg 369 published 14 years after the last…
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I’d better put it down before I forget. 12 days on the road. Almost 4,000 miles. Some stretches were with “Fines double” signs. Other bridges that go nowhere. Eisenhower was so impressed with the German autobahn. Upon his return, he set out to remodel the US highway system (mostly to accommodate the logistics of transporting…
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