Just about everyone recognizes the words above. They might not have read the book, but these words they know. I titled this post “A Tale Of Two Realities” as Dickens’s words above remind me that I have two distinct parts of my personal life. Continue reading A Tale Of Two Realities – Part 1
Next month I will have been in my RetCom (retirement community) for five years. It is such a dramatic difference from my homestead of 21 years that I left behind when I came here. The homestead was a 2.5 acre … Continue reading Swirling Clouds In Blueish Haze…
The words above have been my mantra of life for decades. Everyday I think about those three things, and make sure I am living up to them. I have lived with those words so long that I sometimes kinda naively think that most others do too. But, sometimes I get a figurative punch in the face to tell me otherwise. With this post I will try to explain that. Continue reading Not Everyone Is Smart
My 80th birthday is coming soon. It is one that even in my wildest dream I never imagined would happen. When I was in my teens I thought I would die before I turned 40. Continue reading Old Age And Your End Times
I am in an endless search of my inner self. A requirement to get there is personal solitude, that is, being alone. I didn’t understand how necessary that was for me until quite late in life. Continue reading Learn To Enjoy Solitude
Click HERE (or on the picture above) to browse my artsy collection. Continue reading If You Feel Artsy
I don’t understand why we in the U.S. spend so much of our taxpayer’s money defending the European Union and other developed nations? Continue reading I Just Don’t Understand?
I might have become a member of the MAGA cult if I had remained in the small rural Indiana town where I grew up the rest of my life. I would never have known just how big the world was. Continue reading Vegetating In One Little Corner of Earth
Will wrote the words above about one-hundred years ago, and it couldn’t be more true than it is today. Will humanity ever be ready for truth or harmony? Continue reading Will It Ever Be?
For most people, Memorial Day is primarily a time to celebrate the unofficial beginning of summer. But for me, it is a time to mourn for those who have died in our needless wars of my lifetime, particularly the 58,220 young men from my generation who were killed in Vietnam Continue reading Memorial Day Remembrance
I love discovering people who have put themselves out there in order to further a long much delayed cause. Simone de Beauvoir is certainly one of them. Continue reading I Have No Desire…
My anxiety level has just been too high lately, and I am trying to do something about it. In my studies of religions I have not put much effort into Buddhism but I know it started somewhere around 600 years before its Muslim and Christian counterparts. When I came across the quote above I realized it might help in this area. Continue reading On The Present Moment
Recently I have done quite a heavy search trying to discover the essence of simplicity. After all that time I have come to the conclusion that there is no secret way to simplicity. It is up to you to decide your personal path forward. Continue reading Simplicity Is Not Simple At All
Are you still living a version of your life that was assembled by others, or have you designed the life YOU want to live? Continue reading Owning Yourself…
I’ve been searching for the correct words to describe the stages of life for a very long time. I think I now have them, Continue reading Stages of Life…
Will made the above quote almost a hundred years ago, but I kinda think it’s more appropriate today than it was back then. Continue reading Get Rid Of Both Parties
Life is simply NOT a straight and narrow path. As Thoreau said here it is jagged patchwork of all emotions. That is what makes life so interesting for those of us who look over the sides of the boxes people try to put us in. Continue reading There Is No “Straight & Narrow”
I have learned a lot about myself since I entered my second LOMO (Life On My Own) mode five years ago. This second time started with my wife’s death 1,750 days ago. Continue reading What Keeps This 80-Year-Old Guy Cognitively Sharp
Sometimes it takes an almost panic mode to get you to change what your life focus is about. When your life is chaotic, that is certainly one of those times. Continue reading When Reality Hits You In The Face
Its been 5 years since I moved into my RetCom home and therefore given up my woodworking hobby. I almost chose a different RetCom because it had a very well equipped woodworking room. I wonder what I would have built … Continue reading MME106 – Really Miss My Woodworking Shop..
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