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What’s Coming this Week
A few things: Victoria Day on May 23, Towel Day on May 25, and (hallelujah!) the final week of what is, nominally, the Johnny-Depp-versus-Amber-Heard defamation trial but what is, actually, an egregious mash-up of the worst aspects of celebrity culture and cable-TV obnoxiousness.
Video Memory of the Week
Posted: 2022 May 21
Photo Memory of the Week
Music of the Week
Version with lyrics chosen to compensate for the general mush-mouth-ed-ness of the singer. Or maybe my ears are just getting old . . .
Posted: 2022 May 20
Words of the Week
"A watched pot has never delivered such excitement." - Joe Ray
Source: Wired, 2022 May 13Posted: 2022 May 20
Tweet of the Week
What an interesting coincidence that the people who believe Western civilization is uniquely terrible turned out to be uniquely terrible at running Western civilization
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) May 20, 2022
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Category Archives: Mortality
In Case You Were Wondering
It is a wise child that knows its mother. Continue reading
Let it Begin
Start. Start again. And repeat. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Mortality, New Perspectives, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Attitudes
3 Comments
Lasting the Course
Milestones for Queen Elizabeth and for my dad. Continue reading
Timing isn’t Everything
One last golden view. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality
Tagged Attitudes, Death, Poetry, Trees
6 Comments
Updown, Updown, and Repeat
Mother Nature is pretty tricky. Continue reading
Who Writes This Stuff?
The advertising geniuses strike again. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Language and Communication, Mortality
Tagged Attitudes, Business, Death
14 Comments
A Good Run
An analysis of the cost/benefit of the monarchy. Not. Continue reading
Day of the Dead 2020
Moving forward, not on. Continue reading
Route Six Six
It’s almost enough to make you want to cut your hair. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Feeling Clearly, Mortality, Through History
Tagged Community, History, Military
12 Comments
