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When I asked for a driving tip (at night), Glen, a college roommate, told me: “just follow the painted line”. Given that we were winding through Pennsylvania mountains heading West, his advice was certainly heeded. Until today. Years later. Glen was from N Hampshire, with curly blonde hair and rolled up his sleeves (short-sleeves to…
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Real news are much more painful than fake news. Real news shocked us, surprised us and spinned us in other directions. Real news are slower than fake news. But when they get there, they demand change and action. In other news today, 8 killed in San Jose – on a day the rail cars were…
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Like you, I was young once. Barely speak, barely walk…barely able to join others. Of course, join others I later did when we moved a few blocks up the street. Geography and growth curve aligned to make a perfect storm i.e. two dozens kids share one alley (my “cinema Paradiso”… when my cousin brought his…
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When I died, I would throw a ball (after all, I have organized a bunch of them in my youth)..for all who had gone before me…people who sat under scorching heat in Nam’s jungle, listening to “Reflections of my Life” (before they themselves got on the Vietnam Memorial Wall). I would put on music we…
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Been laying and waiting to be discovered. No none remembers me. Even when they occasionally do, in passing, it’s their mental image of me they think of, not my current and actual stage (rotten to the bones, meatless hence brainless). I am a brainchild of sciences in my days e.g. herbs and preservatives, nice clothes…
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Signed, secured and laminated. My vaccine card. My pandemic passport. Years ago, it was the draft-deferral card. Times change. New world order, still with enlooming Trump’s shadow and a lesser Liz. Soon, we’ll see the interpreters, the contractors and the educators fleeing Afghanistan. History has a funny way to repeat itself. When researching for her…
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Saw a bunch of rough-looking…in goatees, dark T’s and caps…milling about the Hallmarks section. It’s Mother’s Day. In my telephony days, Mother’s Day was the busiest. Network planners worked over-time load-balancing the circuits and CPU’s. Even during Operation Frequent Wind – later re-branded as “Honorable Exit” – one of the code phrases was “Mother wants…
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We all suffer “data deficit” i.e. not having enough data to make informed and wise decisions…stocks market, “meat” market (spousal choice) or “hot” career choice. To add insult to injury, we carry inside these un-altereable genes….besides happenstance in our forever unfolding lives. So we seek counsel and advice, only to see the hyper-actives and hyper-ventilators…
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Every week every Monday morning, we start again, with vigor and vision. Yet to move forward, we need to look back, learn and improve e.g. auto companies are steering away from just-in-time manufacturing (shortage of chip components). In other realms, we watch the fall-out of a huge presidency…most likely, self-inflicted. Michael Lewis calls this “Premonition”…
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Climate change and pocket change, racial discrimination and vaccination, voter suppression and voter turn-out, all have a common denominator: up to us. We can create the problems then solve them (like Charlie Chaplin the window fixer) or we can pro-actively solve them (by education and re-boosting infrastructure). 21st-century problems demand a 21st-century playbook. Can’t bring…
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