Category: Musings
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Life is Good
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe just finished another major election cycle. Part of the country is jubilant, part is grieving, and some small part are probably oblivious. If you’re jubilant, be kind. Remember how you felt 4 years ago, and check where you are now. Most of your worst fears didn’t materialize. If you’re grieving,… Read more
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A Kick in the Pants
Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery once in a while, I feel myself slipping oh, so gently, into a minor funk. It usually happens when I sit around more than I should doing Quadrant 4 activities on the Covey 7 Habits Time Management Matrix. Quadrant 4 activities, for those of you who don’t know, are those that… Read more
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Keeping the Greatest Country on Earth
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s true. In spite of all its current problems, the United States of America is still the greatest country on earth. There is a myriad of reasons why I say this, none of which I’m going to explain in this post. If you don’t believe it, you might ask a few of… Read more
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Who Doesn’t Need a Good Laugh?
Reading Time: 5 minutesToday, we talk about the best medicine ever…laughter. Yeah, maybe it won’t cure those physical ailments overnight, but I guarantee it’ll be good for your soul. And I do guarantee what’s good for your soul works wonders in healing your body. We don’t have enough laughter in our modern lives. Existence, in… Read more
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How Does It Know???
Reading Time: 4 minutesI met a couple last week through a club we both belong to and who, I think, are going to turn out to be great friends. They’re younger than we are. In fact, the woman is young enough to be our daughter. We’ve had some interesting discussions about things new friends don’t… Read more
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ZAMM Philosophy
Reading Time: 4 minutesLiterally, philosophy means love of wisdom. A noble goal, to be sure. I’ve always said that when my life is being celebrated (at least I hope someone will celebrate my life) I would like to be remembered as wise. The dictionary definition of philosophy is different. It is the study of the fundamental… Read more
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What’s the Payoff?
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve always had this theory about why the government passed a law against age discrimination. I don’t think age is the root problem when an older employee gets let go, downsized, canned, forced out, or whatever the politically correct description is these days. My theory is that it’s the attitude so many… Read more
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I Want to Learn to Meditate
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll this health stuff the last couple of posts reminded me that one thing I really want to do is learn to meditate. They say (you know…they…the ones who aren’t me) that meditation has a lot of health and welfare benefits. I especially like the list that includes lowering stress, improving focus,… Read more
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Six Degrees of Separation
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn May I flew from Florida to Wisconsin to celebrate my mother’s 90th birthday. That flight was pretty amazing for a couple of different reasons. I wrote about it then calling it A Modern Miracle or Two. You can read that short post by clicking on the linked title in the previous… Read more
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86,400
Reading Time: 2 minutesI happened upon a Substack (essentially a blog hosting service) post this week from a favorite internet writer of mine, Seth Keshel. You can read it here. The post is about the 86,400 seconds of time each of us have to spend every single day of our lives. I’ve written about spending… Read more