I find myself wallowing, not wanting much more, needing to demand of myself a sharper edge, required, increasingly happy as activity decreases, I decline otherwise to consider if this ok, rather just do, whenever I have the chance, the time, a moment unexpected, seeking solace in the hallow, I wallow in what was and could …

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This new album, Touch, this music, this creative puzzle, “…a puzzle to be savored, rather than solved, perhaps…” Instrumentalist ensemble from a couple decades back, maybe three, doing their particularly unique thing, “…post-rock, dub, krautrock…so says Wiki. Grooving and finding their way, journeymen, heartening, Heartening, GOOD.

He boasted the wars in Ukraine, and Gaza would be over on the first day of his presidency. Conversations and even a summit with Putin have done nothing, the Ukraine war rages on. Gaza is in rubble & more than 65,000 Gazans are dead, millions starving, a fragile truce the only respite. Sending National Guard …

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A day in this country to honor all veterans who have served. The background I didn’t know. “A Congressional Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U.S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made November 11 in each year a legal holiday: "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be …

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Watching game seven of the World Series this year, it occurred to me how in baseball there is friendly chatter between teams some of the time. This happens, sometimes at the plate between batter and catcher, and certainly on bases, when there are base runners, especially on first base. Friendly might be too strong a …

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It’s a seriously silly situation. Mea culpa. Working a little too quickly created the wrong batch; I should have known better. TJ4Z141. Not typical. Then received the batch against the purchase order. Oh no. And the purchase order is now closed. Oh no. And the phantom batch is now stranded. Oh no. And it’s expensive. …

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Second place, is it really all that bad? We make it so somehow in our language and culture, well second place, not first; playing second fiddle, not so great apparently; sometimes, maybe most of the time, we should be pretty stoked about second; it means we were still at a very high level, we were …

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This day, thirteen years ago. This guy was born, changed my life. Our son. My guy Levi. About now he’d say, “Don’t say that, Dad…” But he’s my guy, gotta say. Sister on either side, twenty months older, fifteen months younger, both super special too, And still, Levi is my guy, through every tribulation in …

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Such a simple thing, you be you, I’ll be me, freedom to do so, faithfully, Faithfully so I say because it might just come down to faith for me, Faith to trust the sure sense of now, what’s needed, what’s the right path and how, How to get there, find the way, free to find …

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There’s no place for violence. Full stop. Wait. Maybe one. If someone is trying to hurt you or kill you, then a violent response to protect yourself as appropriate. Beyond that? NO. No opinion or purpose otherwise justifies violence. NONE. Full stop. NO VIOLENCE.