Monthly Archives: February 2017

work or working.

So what are you waiting for? Especially if you have a significant dream that requires more-than-average spending. Saved money is just ‘frozen’ and Scroogley-congealed in some cases. Although I’ve lived beyond my means for periods of time, I believe it’s … Continue reading →

When unsupervised Greyhound-bus beheader and cannibal Vince Li forgets to take his meds down the road, I hope that all the names of the judges and review board who freed him to ‘do his thing’ on some other poor, unsuspecting … Continue reading →

never leave a mess behind you. Particularly with regard to wills, estates, and funeral arrangements. Attending to these reduces your own unfinished business, reduces worries, and makes things easier for family and survivors come the inevitable.

(Walt Whitman as pictured in 1891 Leaves of Grass) (above: Robert Frost’s grave, Bennington, Vermont; example of significant future planning and following my bliss; all that is needed to complete a ‘future’ dream is personal will quite often; going to … Continue reading →

(couch pillow, living room) “A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.” –Kahil Gibran

(top: 1st album; “Lenny keeps it short”; concise beautiful playing of standards; bottom: Lenny breaks out–pretty much what he sounded like at his best back then, live) (top: a rare album; Chet and Lenny play mostly country, acoustic; “Lenny’s dream come … Continue reading →

That time of year again in Edmo. Jack London stuff out there this morning. Exposed flesh freezing in less than a minute. Stay warm!

(photo by RD) Thus it was that patterns became a driving force in my own teaching and the writing of textbooks. The awareness of patterns, the possibility of patterns, the understanding of patterns, the appreciations of patterns, and the applications … Continue reading →

(highly recommended documentary on a major paradigm-shifter of the ’60s, Rachel Carson) that money, making money, and The Economy are what are the most important things in life and the world. Before this, last seen in the late 1900s, Great … Continue reading →