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A digression to begin with Back to my all-time favorite thing in the world – Music. When I find a moment to step away from the distraction of planetary destruction – and I understand I’m trivializing the rape of Mother Earth by calling it a “distraction” but I feel helpless about it and that’s a…
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It was probably 1996 when I first got a copy of “August and Everything After”. When I heard “Mr Jones”, I remembered a friend back home talking about it in early 1995 after MTV had first made its appearance in India, through Star TV from Hong Kong. I didn’t pay it too much attention. I…
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Rise in Peace (Feb 8, 1938 – Aug 8, 2026) This is my tiny, insignificant tribute to Rachel Naomi Remen. A small discussion group of 5 people – the only one that I’m still part of – was tackling end of life in our last session. A suggested video (among other materials) was Dr Vivek…
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This is a work in process Introduction Introduction What am i talking about? I want to make sure people understand right off the bat that I’m talking about billionaires and the billions of pieces of green paper (either physical or digital or value of items) they purportedly own. I am not talking about the billions…
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This is a living list of topics that I want to write about. I will start with a few items here, and keep adding new ones as they come to mind.
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Forget about the bullshit books and movies. The Odyssey. Star Wars. And, it pains me to add my personal favorite: The Matrix. All of the Joseph Campbell crap. There’s one hero’s journey that’s played out in every life. every day. It’s your personal daily hero’s journey. Doesn’t matter what you do. Every morning (or whenever),…
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“Dragons in the day time,Fires at nightI bow to the Lord of the FliesFor these marvels of flight” This weekend, we drove out to Lakeland Park in Canton, IL. But really, it could have been anywhere there was water, greenery, blue skies and huge puffy clouds to provide sunscreen. There were many wonderful sights: But,…
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Baby showers The other day I was out for a walk and got caught in a baby shower. Just a little drizzle. Do people going to baby showers wear baby shower caps if they don’t want to get their hair wet? How did we get from baby showers to raining cats and dogs? Stampede A…
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The Knowledge Trap Ignoring the multitudes that are giddy with joy as they discover the thrill of interacting with all the GPTs and getting intelligent and coherent responses, there are the handfuls of us who are lamenting how AI is going to whip our asses (and the rest of the bodies connected to those asses).…
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We’d Lose This chapter starts with a very short prologue – the only non-fiction – of an aztec warrior watching a spanish armada showing up on it shore, and having not even the faintest idea that the men on these boats carry magic sticks that they can point at you from a distance, and you…