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In the scheme of things, we shouldn’t be bothered with big problems e.g. climate change, gun control, homelessness, immigration etc… Yet the fall-outs from these issues are in our faces daily. Outside the gym, early AM, I saw a person looking for breakfast in waste bins. 21st-century scavenger. We want to survive, to see another…
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Once 18 years living inside the Terminal, he has died as of yesterday. My daughter and I never forget the scene where he (played by Tom Hanks) prepared his cracker (singular) as if ready for holy communion ( only to be bumped by a hurried passer-by.). Cracker meal, on the floor. Our transient life viewed…
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The things they carried….to Matterhorn…to the last chopper. While bridge left undefended per Big Minh order (Stand down, drop your weapons, go home). Boots off on retreat to town. My friend, whom I said Goodbye just the day before, mustered up all the flip flops he could find (as you walk down the main bridge,…
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Darkness will enfold. Yet they don’t feel cold. The dead. In my memory. People I grew up with and looked up to. Towering figures (from my vantage point as a child e.g. glad to give Dad a siesta back rub or to shine his shoes as he kept knocking on doors). Those boots on the…
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Text and drive. Walk and chew gum. Work out and scroll up. Occupy leg-extension machines. Occupy traffic lights. Occupy public space (for private use.) At least we no longer spread our newspapers on public transport (I found myself the only hard-back book reader on the plane). Public space used to lord over private space (build…
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Per Bloom who taught at Yale, there were about 1200 religions in the US (United Faiths). More splintered groups, cults and conspiracies (Qanon Shaman got 41 months in jail for J6). Who to believe? Too many moons (Son of Moon took over the franchise. Franklin Graham his Dad’s , so did the Lynchburg guy who…
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We will never know how and when our story ends. Nor do we wish to know. Dust we must. It’s a blessing in disguise to live with unknowns, one of which, so obvious to others, but not to us: we can’t even see ourselves. Only its reflection (or self-projection). The best we can is to…
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In high school, I worked hard and modeled myself after fame, fortune, and future-forward leaders. Aren’t we all? Yet, this quest was more challenging given war throughout my youth. We learned about the Grandeur of France, Belle du Jour, and Breathless (smoking). We learned about WWII atrocities (famine which killed 2 million in the North…
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Somewhere along the line, our intended message is lost in translation. We meant this, they perceived that. Even with ubiquitous communication technologies, with Edit button, Delete button and Comment option. Quick to transmit. Too late to learn we are intrinsically different ( hence, the need for audience analysis, segmentation and not bunching different groups e.g.…
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Paul Tournier said, “Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets”. Those moments when we felt more like Fredo than Michael Corleone. Fredo, played by Cazale, half Irish, half Italian was at one time in a relationship with Meryl Streep (also in the Deer Hunter where she played a Vietnam draftee’s bridesmaid in a Slavic…
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