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Behind These Fronts

We are all held together by wires or Wi-Fi. The props that hold us up can only be glimpsed in a certain slant of light. We are really coming apart all the time, even as we laugh and profess a … Continue reading

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Re. Boxing Day Sales

I have never wasted entire days of my life waiting and planning feverishly for this annual mindless, gratuitously materialistic obsessive binge. For me, Boxing Day is always a laid-back, clean-up day after the annual family Christmas party-blowout for 18-21 people. … Continue reading

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A Child’s Second Boxing Day Revisited

It was light outside this time when we got to Ganma and Ganpa’s. Grana had a camera as I walked with giraffe in my arms to him. Mama carried the dog in her Santa dress. Inside the big tree was … Continue reading

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A Child’s Second Christmas

(Christmas Day) The car stopped in front of Ganma and Ganpa’s house. It was dark. Dada lifted me out of the car chair and set me on the snow. I walked to the house which had many lights on. Ganpa … Continue reading

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Christmas Eve

“Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-coloured snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, … Continue reading

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Our Post-Truth age aside,

it is important that you retain your own common sense and powers of crap-detecting to maintain an accurate focus on Truth objectively and physical/tangible living/lived Reality. With the awesome webwork of lies provided by politicians, government, agenda-groups, media, and advertising, … Continue reading

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How Important Is The Mind?

It allows you to enjoy, understand, connect to, and appreciate all the Great Truths and Beauty of the world. Which is as important a feat, power, and potential as the great minds and artists who created the same. ‘Twas a … Continue reading

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Christmas Synchronicity

My daughter was coming over this afternoon and I thought to put on some music for her. At home, we have about 20 CDs pulled out, many of them obscure and out-of-print. I chose the very uncommon, rare Oscar Peterson Xmas … Continue reading

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Physical health and wellness aside–

(Highly recommended book and movie) …………………….. a big deal in itself–mental /mind intactness (including consciousness, awareness, common sense, reason, memory, imagination, sensibility, as well as ability to create, problem-solve, and critically think) is probably even more important. Recall Hamlet’s “I could … Continue reading

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Counting One’s Blessings

and any luck you’ve had in your day, life, etc. It is all too easy daily to be suddenly ‘taken out’ by an injury, fall, or serious medical condition that gets out of control. Suddenly being unable to see, walk, … Continue reading

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