Friends

Fall                                            Full Blood Moon “There is no need like the lack of a friend.”   Irish saying How many sets of friends do you have?  Not an idle question since study after study shows friendship a vital element of health.  Friends become even more important as we age.  Here’s a couple of examples:  BBC, Science. Today […]

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The Quiet American

53  bar falls 29.88 4mph NE dewpoint 33 Beltane   sunny                First Quarter of the Hare Moon                                            The Quiet American Here’s my buddy, Mark Odegard in Thailand.  I can’t tell if this is the palace grounds or not, but I do remember just this sign.  It made me stop and think, too.  He’s just […]

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In Tutelage to My Self

41  bar steady  29.41 4mph dewpoint 39 Beltane            Waning Crescent Moon of Growing Wet.  Cold.  Dreary.  An inside day.  I was gonna plant beets and carrots outside, but not today.  Maybe Sunday. Lunch with Tom Crane.  We discussed the meeting at his house where I serve as his assistant.  The topic is mastery.  The […]

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One Psychiatrist Says to Another

61 bar steep fall 29.73  6mph WSW dewpoint 33 Spring                 Last Quarter Moon of Growing Some leaf curling and cupping on my lettuce and tomato.  Not sure if it’s a problem or not.  I can’t find any organisms.  No sign of mildew, virus, aphid, biting insects.  Still, it doesn’t look quite right to me.  Time […]

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The Buddhist After-Life and the Killing Fields

25  93%  27%  omph NNW bar 29.77 windchill25  Winter                   New Moon Had a summary of our gathering (Woollies) at the Istanbul Bistro, but lost in a multiple cascading of Internet Explorer browser pages.  Probably a sign I should go back to Firefox.  I used to use it, then I abandoned it, used it again, […]

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The Byte Master

Bill Schmidt came over this afternoon and coached me in Word Press.  He did the heavy lifting when it came to shifting my website created in FrontPage to this new vehicle, Word Press.  I’m glad he made the change because I don’t understand what he did. Bill and I have spent 20 years plus in the same […]

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