I have a ton of projects to take care of. Since the age of 13 or 14. The list began then and has never diminished in length shorter than 40 or 50 items. I think this is the real meaning of life. To get comfortable with ‘sloth’. I’m almost there. For the past hour and … More Avoidance Behavior
SAILOR, REST YOUR OAR Lost Harbor by Leslie Nelson Jennings There is a port of no return, where ships May ride at anchor for a little space And then, some starless night, the cable slips, Leaving an eddy at the mooring place . . . Gulls, veer no longer. Sailor, rest your oar. No tangled … More “Sailor, rest your oar”
I was heading south toward Spring City, Tennessee on I-81. What a night it had been. High winds and blinding rain on back in Virginia running alongside the Blue Ridge Mountains. Dark, windy, rainy and scary too. More than scary really. Hair-raising, daunting, fearsome, alarming sound good too. I was unblinking-tired. There was no way … More A Memorable Evening
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This is the complete picture of my cover picture at ONL191. Me trying to get some air in Anza Borrego desert some time March 2018. Well, it has been a while. Almost 4 years! Guess it has been busy. I am back because of the Open Networked Learning course: ONL191. How…
I have a major day arriving soon. A major day. Not the major day, just a major day. My 80th birthday is February 19th. I am entering my ninth decade. I’m not sure how to feel or think about this. I am having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I am going to … More 80
via Let’s talk about love The best writing about ‘love’ I’ve seen for a long while. Thanks, Natalia. Here I’d like to quote something by Oscar Wilde. “When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” The … More Let’s talk about love
The digital clock tells all who are present that it is 11:11. From what I know through comments hither and yon is, that 11:11 sticks in the minds of many. It is symbolic, I suspect. It is for me. Of course, on a digital clock the symmetry of the display catches one’s eye and captures a … More George Stratton
Playing Fair and Being Kind 