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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Oprah’s Harvard Speech
Today my son finishes the 7th grade, and how strange it is to me to see my not-so-long-ago little bundle of joy becoming a young man, soon to be out there facing the world. And this morning on the news … Continue reading
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy After reading “Darkness at Noon” I was inspired to read more about the time period and about Russian history in particular. I have never read any of the classic Russian authors, but my sister owns … Continue reading
Darkness at Noon
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler I started reading this book on May 15th. The funny thing about this book is that I once owned a copy (with the cover pictured at left, which is different from the library copy … Continue reading
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INSANITY?
CONNECTIONS… I often tend to see the “connectedness” between seemingly disparate things; I constantly see examples of the ways things are connected. But sometimes it can be hard to pinpoint just how a thing might relate to another thing, even … Continue reading
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The Nuremberg Interviews
The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn I started reading this book on March 24th, and didn’t finish it until May 15th. This was a “heavy” book to read, and often very disturbing. I found that I generally could only take … Continue reading
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Thought Experiment #20130514-1
I am thinking about the concept of “MOTHER” today. And I believe we would all agree that, on this planet at least, the concept of “mother” is a Universal one. This is, of course, due to the fact that our … Continue reading
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ORYX AND CRAKE
ORYX AND CRAKE – I started reading this some time around the last week of April or 1st of May, after I finished reading “The Phantom” and went back to reading “The Nuremberg Interviews,” and I read the two books … Continue reading
We love our Eucalyptus…
Here in Petaluma, and in many other parts of the Bay Area and California, these lovely eucalyptus trees, many of them more than 100 years old, can be found everywhere, in shady groves, and alongside and canopying our roadways. … Continue reading
Cat Breeders gone WILD
I quote here an article from The New Yorker wherein I learn that people are now breeding wild cats with domestic cats. At first this seems like a rather neat idea to me, a major cat-lover, until I read on … Continue reading
Capitalism Gone Wild
My sister posted this Wall Street Journal article on Facebook the other day and, after I got around to reading it, I decided it was worth posting here: Capitalism is killing our morals, our future Commentary: In a Market Society, … Continue reading
Here’s another good one…
From: A 0 L T E AM <hello@wxxinews.org> Sent: Thu, May 2, 2013 3:28 am Subject: S E C U R I T Y A L E R T ! Dear Customer, Your E-mail account has exceeded its limit and … Continue reading
May 1st
It’s MAY! And here is my 31-point-plan: And my dear Aunt’s birthday is coming up on the 5th. She will be 86 (I think) years old. I made a card for her, by taking some of the artwork from this, … Continue reading
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