I think a lot and that is a problem when you have no tools to help you sort out your thinking. What do I mean by that and why is Helen Keller a part of the discussion? If you’ve read Helen Keller’s biography, you will know that she became deaf…
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Something My Mother Told Me
When I started writing and posting blog posts and sharing them on Facebook, my Mom would always tell me how much she loved what I would post. But, of course, she is my mother. What does she know, right? She isn’t an objective observer at all. So, when we would…
The Sunday Quandary
Sundays and Wednesdays became the only time when my mother and I could be alone in the house and do things and talk about things in peace while my father went to Sunday school and church. As my mother’s health situation began to take her energy she stopped wanting to…
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Verdi’s Requiem: Nashville Symphony
Nashville Symphony’s performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece in their palace of music “The Schermerhorn Symphony Center” checks all of the boxes one would expect from a world class symphonic experience. A world class venue, an excellent orchestra and conductor, quality soloists, a very good chorus and dead center in the heart…
ICE – I was shocked and dismayed at the video about the “persecution” of free people in the United States.
The reason I am writing this article is two fold. First, to make clear that S-ICE, a company that I started, has nothing to do with ice.gov. (ICE stands for international creative enterprises.) Secondly, to condemn the danger presented in the now infamous video of a New York lawyer threatening…
Stop the Destruction of Colleges, Universities and Public Education Now
Without a doubt the public education system including colleges and universities needs to be updated. However, the constant attack on these valuable institutions is self destructive and unwarranted not only from law makers but also from those in our society that think that it is a waste of time and…
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Hiking: Walking in Nature
I love writing. I like the feeling of using my mind to dig in deeper into myself to see what there is to find. It is like “Mind Mining”. Mining in the sense of digging to find something of value and in this case you aren’t really sure what you…
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Consistency: Building a Cabin in the Woods
Building a Cabin in the Woods: A metaphor for life. Right now I am finding out that the most important thing we do in life is one thing… …and that is what we repeatedly do. It doesn’t have to be inspired, have any higher purpose or make money. You don’t…
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Taking Time for the Important Things
I was talking to a therapist about the fact that it seems like I am surrounded with negativity. (I am taking grief therapy following the passing of my Mother because I don’t want to miss the experience of feeling sad out of an avoidance of feeling sad. I think it…
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Nobody Talks About What Is Really Going On With Themselves
Nobody Talks About What Is Really Going On With Themselves Sure a lot of people talk about themselves and what problems they may have and all, but in the end, few ever get to the essence of the issue. It is like what doctors do most of the time, they…