In the spring of 2017, my brother and I visited our Grandmother in Alaska. It was the first time I had been to Alaska since 1970. I wasn’t sure what I’d find or how I would feel about it, but I was really happy to go and spend time with…
Technology
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Tech: Making things easier?
Does the development of technology make life easier or better? I am old enough to remember a day when we had one black-and-white television with 3 commercial channels and 1 public channel. We had one telephone hanging on the wall with a long spiral cord that could stretch across the…
Timothy Simpson
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The Future: Will we be able to live independent lives or will everything we do be overseen by interconnectivity?
I believe in progress because it is inevitable. However, with new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, it begins to feel like everything we do is somehow connected to people who hold all the data about us. At the moment, I run a lot of things on autopilot because I can. But…
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The Vision to See Beyond the Present: How to inspire a new generation of Americans to take control of their future.
It’s your bed. Only you can make it. It’s your world. It’s time to take it. I was born in 1960. What is special about that? John F. Kennedy was elected President in that year. He called on a new generation of Americans to take control of the future. That…
Politics? Really?
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Rising Tide: The New Vision for America to Outshine the Darkness
Disclaimer: My posts are “Thought experiments to explore new ideas and question what is going on in the world. Nothing I write is meant to be considered my conviction to anything. It is just a place to think out loud and to record my state of mind on a certain…
Politics? Really?
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Why don’t the people stop them?
Why don’t the people stop them? How many times throughout history has this question been asked? History is full of leaders who came to power and created a power structure that eliminated opposition to their regime. The supreme leader was then able to do as they pleased to send their…
Timothy Simpson
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Spiritual Practice versus Spiritual Dogma: The difference lies in an internal versus an external control of behavior.
I inherited a western spiritual practice. When I look back on my life and the way that my behavior was controlled I begin to realize that the way the western world approaches religion is all wrong. In fact, it is destructive. I always sensed this. From a young age I…
Arts
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Groundhog Day: Every Day is the Same – and That’s the Point!
By Timothy Simpson February 2, 2026 Today was Groundhog Day, and fittingly, I went to see the film Groundhog Day. It’s been years since I last watched it. Like most people, I remembered the basic premise — a man wakes up to the same day over and over again —,…
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Immigration: Being a good host and a good guest are the basic principles of freedom.
We are experiencing a period of decreased freedom. If everyone isn’t ‘free’, then nobody is truly ‘free’. Today, the government of this administration is taking away our freedoms every single day, and it has got to stop…NOW. I have traveled to other countries, lived in other countries, and was ‘free’…
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The Real Epidemic in America: Anger Addiction
All of my posts are thought experiments usually conducted early in the morning when my brain is racing. Blogging is really about “The Morning Pages” that Julie Cameron talks about in her book “The Artists Way.” So, bear with me… Christian Bremer wrote a book in German, “Free from Anger”…