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People losing it in lines or having to wait. Zero patience under the unprecedented circumstances: “I’m more important than the rest of youse.” Given the number of people who stocked up on guns (?!) south of the border, the U.S. … Continue reading →

Health-care workers, doctors, nurses, support and cleaning staff. Those who put their lives on the line for others as their continuing jobs.

Each day for me is a positive in still being me and alive. And with family and loved ones intact. That and as many friends well and intact, too. But each day for me is a tabula rasa of sorts … Continue reading →

Kenny Rogers, 81. “You’ve painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair…” –“Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” “It wasn’t me that started that old crazy Asian war…” “It’s hard to love a man whose legs … Continue reading →

Looking back, I have many personal markers and signposts as do many people. My uncanny ability though, is to be able to recall pop songs by date and circumstances in which I first heard them. Often, too, how hearing those … Continue reading →

“Everything hinges upon our realizing the essential transitory possibilities.” –Viktor Frankl “Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities–always see them, for they are always there.” –Norman Vincent … Continue reading →

Marcus Aurelius: “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” Rene Descartes: “I think, therefore I am.” Antoine Arnauld: “Men are everywhere confronted with alternative routes–some true and others false–and reason must choose between them. Who … Continue reading →

Spring wanted to come, honest, like a slow-moving antediluvian brain over a white receding tundra. It was all about timing, apparently and the ebb and flow of atoms globally. Nation-state borders dissolved as you looked at them McLuhanesquely on whatever … Continue reading →

The movies: Ship of Fools (1965) and Voyage of the Damned (1976), relative to all the current cruise ship crises.

My parents before I was born.