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Been dry ! In the desert, riding the horse with no name. Some just let go. Never learned. Never changed. Except on New Years. Then, business as usual. Stores Open and Closed i.e. permanently downsized. However, the longer the wait, the sweeter the result. Like desert bloom. Like maturity and wholeness. Seeing life from both…
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On one of the accounts from a Navy man who worked on USS Kirk during the Frequent Wind evacuation at the end of the Vietnam War (recording to be sent to his wife) “they tossed babies from 25 feet in the air, out of Chinooks, and we caught them like basketballs”. Meanwhile, per Newsweek piece,…
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We’ve seen it: a hero welcome at the heart of Democracy, a damning report about its former Head, and of course, a massive spending to come. All in one day. Not to mention reduced life expectancy for folks like myself. Everything accelerates: the pace of spending, inflation and interest rates, climate change and no choices…
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Around this time of the year, we feel it (joy) in the air, hear the Salvation-Army bell, and see motorists stopping for panhandlers. Very much heart-warming, like in Joyeux Noel (1914 WWI film). Enough for year round. Spin it again. My first memorable Christmas in the alley where I grew up: tables were set out,…
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That’s me. I am not writing about someone else. You see, the man who was about to move in across the street has died. I was told. All the frantic buildout, renovating and refashioning. If we were Amish, he and I and the whole village would have chipped in (barn-raise). As it turns out, I…
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For years, I have seen above picture. Lately, it’s on my home-office desk. Sister’s family left side. Ours, right side. With my Mom, situated in the middle. Always the matriarch of the extended family. My brother, far right, was a Medic Captain (divorced and ran into his wife and kid on Wake Island, where this…
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We’re privy, each of us, to 15 min of fame ( Irene Cara herself). Andy Warhol, Woody Allen etc.. all famous, with memorable quotes. Life compressed. A short sentence. One word. Name. People , who taught me about life, have all passed away. They showed me the opposite of the ideal they instilled in me.…
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We can stay still. Close our eyes. We can think. Talk and discuss. Or we can move ahead regardless. Gretchen Rubin, author and expert on Happiness, says habits take self-control and decision-making out of the equation: showered and shaved, coffee and toast etc… Long time ago, event took me out of my habitat . Disrupted…
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I wish. That life out of an alley would shoot forward to target, like an arrow. Unfortunately, its trajectory has been more like a beeline . A shock absorber with DNA strands and scars. Perhaps it’s better that way (an arrow might miss its target). Like little Red Robin, we can afford to make an…
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Outer and inner life. The later is more important. It makes a total person, from cradle to the grave, both context and contour. At the present, cancer, stroke and dementia remain our top challenges. Slow decline and certain death. Faded memory. No recall. No joie de vivre. A long goodbye. I spoke to my sister,…
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