Category: Musings
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Rocket Woman
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Elton John and his lyricist partner Bernie Taupin wrote the song Rocket Man, Taupin was inspired by a 1951 collection of Ray Bradbury short sci-fi stories. The stories depicted the complex relationship between technology and psychology, and one story, in particular, was about an astronaut’s love of the stars. The man… Read more
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Bad Movies and Other Distractions
Reading Time: 4 minutesI like Hallmark movies. A lot. I like to have them playing on my tablet while I’m putting a puzzle together out on the lanai. Neither one of those activities take too much brain power so I can easily do both at once. It’s a great two-fer activity…exercising my mind and indulging… Read more
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A (Short) Story of Inflation
Reading Time: 2 minutesInflation silently and subversively steals our money. Many of the problems and hardships we’re having with the economy right now are because of inflation. This short post isn’t to explain how or why, but just give you a real-world Ah-ha! moment of how it works. Simple example: A couple of years ago… Read more
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Harper, the Baby Seal…Robot
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have a caring, faithful, selfless friend named Carla who is a volunteer for a non-profit hospice program. Carla’s been working with hospice for years, something I don’t think I could ever do. She is an amazing woman whom I’ve been privileged to call friend for close to 45 years now. I… Read more
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The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can put your whole life on hold waiting to emerge into the light at the end of the tunnel. What I mean is that there’s always something that’s going to happen in the future that you think is the end of whatever you’re going through right now. And you’re always… Read more
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Rethinking God
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow many times have you believed something to be true for a very, very long time, only to find out that what you thought you knew to be true might not be true at all? Sounds like I’m setting you up for a trick question, doesn’t it? I’m not. And what does… Read more
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Why Not Say What You Mean?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have an Associate’s Degree in Marketing. It’s been interesting to me, over the years, to watch the language of our culture change to put the best possible spin on the baloney that happens so they can shape and control our opinions and thoughts. Words I grew up with, like gay,… Read more
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The 4th Quarter (of Your Life)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor my birthday last week a friend gave me a copy of a book called No Regrets and its accompanying workbook, The Fourth Quarter of Your Life. No Regrets is a quick read, a parable of sorts, and Randy and I both read it in a couple of hours. We started… Read more
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Anniversaries and Other Dates
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne of the problems with retirement and aging is that time kind of all runs together. As the years roll by, memories start fraying. I don’t have any problem remembering spectacularly momentous things, but Lordy, I have a problem remembering when things happen. I’m not talking about minor things here. I’m talking… Read more
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If Money Were No Object
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I was contemplating subject matter for this week’s post, nothing inspired me. Absolutely nothing. So, here it is, Tuesday morning, 7:38 am, and though I mostly wrote a post yesterday on minimalism, it was (as I mentioned) completely uninspiring. It had no purpose and would be an effort of which I… Read more