John P. Weiss is one of my regular blog visits each week. I am envious of his sketching talents, and reading his stories help me to be a better writer. If you want to see one of his posts click HERE. Vincent Van Gough is one of my favorite artists. His paintings speak to me on a level that few others do. As Vincent did, … Continue reading The Thing About Conformity
I have been trying to get some of the folks here in my RetCom (retirement community) to think about putting their life experiences on-line so that others might learn from them, or at least be entertained by them. Some of the stories I have heard are simply amazing. I realize that not everyone has the talents to accomplish such a task of telling their life … Continue reading Sharing Our Life Stories
I spend about an hour or so every morning reading the latest news. About 50% of that time is with U.S. sources, the rest is outside our borders. It’s nice to get a different perspective on the problems of the world. Several of my daily sources are from Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. If I were to suddenly become a world traveler those are … Continue reading An Interesting Observation From Great Britain
Even though I am deaf, I am still folk music fanatic at least in my noisy brain that is. Far and away the most influential album of my life is the one above. I can’t tell you how many times I played that record before I want deaf. I still have a copy of the lyrics on the wall behind me. I bought the album … Continue reading I Am A Rock… And A Rock Feels No Pain
I will say it up front, I am just not happy with the quality of posts I have been putting out here at RJsCorner recently. They just seem stale to me. That is one of the reasons I have cut back to only a couple a week. I don’t know what happened? Maybe my cognitive processes have declined now that I am in my 77th … Continue reading It’s Time For A Change @ RJsCorner… A Real Change
This particular picture was taken looking out a window in the Salvador Dalà Museum in St. Petersburg FL. I love geometric shapes, so this one pic drew me in. Of course, looking out the window gives you a strong sense of Florida. This Spring my older brother suddenly came to mind. The last time I visited him was twenty years ago in 2002. At that … Continue reading The Last Time
This is a new thing at RJsCorner which is primarily about quotes from people usually smarter than us, that are meant to teach us a little about life outside our boxes. Most quotes are taken from a larger document and are drawn out by wordsmiths like me who see them as the perfect words to relay a much more profound message. In other wordsvthey draw … Continue reading Learning From Those Wiser Than Us
You can’t help it. Before you were born, you resided in a small space with no windows. That was your total world. After nine months of being there, you escaped but still to a box of your parent’s making. They told you what was expected of you, how you were to act, what you were to think. Since they were so much wiser than you, … Continue reading Outside The Box…
For the last month or so I have been trying to figure out a way to change the fabric of RJsCorner. I’m sure you have also seen it but more and more of my posts lately have been about my malaise about my future. I’m definitely tiring of the “Poor Me” syndrome, so there will be much less of that. I want to give you … Continue reading Introducing 801 Words – A New Project
I must admit that there are a few others on my “biggest fear” list, but the most pressing one lately is boredom. I simply must have something to challenge me from day-to-day. I must have a reason to exist. I see so many in my RetCom (retirement community) who are just living day-to-day, and it scares me that I will join them in just waiting … Continue reading My Biggest Fear – Boredom
There are way too many who are making millions of bucks putting false, evil-minded thoughts into the minds of gullible people. Who would ever have dreamed that there are millions of people who enthusiastically buy in QAnon. The core QAnon theory that is very prevalent among the gullible is that a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic sexual abusers of children are operating a global child sex-trafficking ring conspired against former U.S. President Donald … Continue reading The Dilemma Of Gullible People… And We Seem To Have Many Of Them
When I was paying almost $200 per month for my satellite TV service it always bugged me that half of that cost was used to buy the television rights to sporting events of which I watched none. I have been on streaming TV for about 15 months now. I am paying about one-third of what I was. I couldn’t be happier with my a la … Continue reading A La Carte
Sometimes I wish I could take back that time when I discovered I am an Aspie. I think that moment to some degree kind of ruined the rest of my life. But, perhaps the most damaging part of that was what was done by the website Medium because it provided me daily with hundreds of articles about Aspergers, and only Aspergers. When I discovered that … Continue reading It’s All About Masking And Maybe The Medium…
I admit that before I made Rhode Island a primary destination of the recent New England trip I didn’t know much about the State, and what I thought I knew was basically wrong. So, in 500 words or less I will tell you what I learned about the State while I was there and since I have returned. Rhode Island was basically a refugee colony … Continue reading The Mysterious Rhode Island Explained…
I have been struggling the last 16 months in the “alone” part of my life trying to figure out what I want from the years I have left. I have the resources to do almost anything I desire. I realize that it could change quickly, but my health is good, at least for a person who is starting his 77th-year on this earth. I have … Continue reading The Times, They Are a Changing… Again
Here is the most informative and best presentation about global warming that I have yet to see. I highly suggest you check it out. Continue reading The Story About Global Warming…
I wish there was a crystal ball that I could look into to take all my worries, anxieties, and depression about the future away, but like everything else in life, things are never that simple. Silver bullets just don’t exist for complicated things. To change your present or future requires hard work. RJ Walters Continue reading Myth # 44: Crystal Balls & Magic Bullets…
I came across some statistics lately about the dining industry that I believe explain some about the problems of my RetCom’s (retirement community) dining problems of not being able to build a reliable waitstaff. There were many of them in my source but for this post I will concentrate on just three. If you want to see the whole article click HERE. My RetCom has … Continue reading RetComLife – Info About Waitstaffs
As what happens to most of us, life turns on moments. There is that time when we clearly see that our future is about to dramatically change due to one moment in time. I can cite six clear times when that has happened to me. How about you? I would love to hear about the moments in your life that turned your life in another … Continue reading Life Turns On Moments…
It’s time for another Aspie post here on RJsCorner. This one is about Aspie obsessions. I’m sure I have posted about this before, but I don’t specifically remember it. So, I will give you a brief story about Aspies and obsession. Here is a quote from a reliable source about Aspies and special interests. I recognized this trait in myself from an early age. I … Continue reading I Just Couldn’t Help Myself
I’m sure you, to one degree or another, likely agree with the title of this post. Old people are simply not tech-savvy to any degree. When I suggested to the management here at my RetCom (retirement community) home that we should have an on-line interface for communications with the residents, I was given that line. With nothing to back my suggestion up I let it … Continue reading Myth #37 – Old People Don’t Do On-Line
There seems to be a very basic problem in our society today, and that is our ability to listen to each other. I chose the graphic above for this post because it reminded me of the basset hound who was my “shadow” for ten years of my life. She was a 45 lb sweetie pie who thought she was a lapdog. But the picture also … Continue reading The Power of Listening…
I can only say one thing about the title above. GET OVER IT I know all you Millennials and GenZers are used to getting all us Baby Boomers savings for free, but I have to inform you that is not normal. I have an account with almost $200,000 in it, and it gets about $5/month interest. It’s about time you future generations paid your own … Continue reading PANIC!! – The Interest Rates Are Above 3%!!
I took this picture a few weeks ago when I was visiting the Finger Lakes region of New York. I kinda think it deserves an Arsty status, and the grapes were delicious. Continue reading Oh, The Finger Lakes…
To me, the statement “Let nature take its course” is kinda synonymous with “It’s in God’s hands”. Saying that seems to put some people at ease for not doing something personally to solve the problems of the world. Another is that they don’t trust anything that they don’t understand. Science is all about understanding the mysteries of nature. We simply can’t wait for the universe … Continue reading If We Let Nature Take Its Course, We Would All Be Dead of Cholera or COVID
As most of my regular readers know, I am currently focusing my studies on among other things, philosophy. I know that is pretty boring stuff to most of you, so I promise I won’t do too many posts on that subject. But, this quote from Plato 2,000+ years ago got my attention, and I think you will find it enlightening. “Dictatorship naturally arises out of … Continue reading Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy
This is a continuation of yesterday’s post about trying to start up a new activity here in my RetCom (retirement community) that is focused toward us guys. Yesterday I talked about two possibilities: woodworking and model building. Today’s post is about a third path forward and that is Lego. I know many of you are probably saying that Lego is for kids, but since old … Continue reading RetComLife – The Thing About Men: Part 3 – Finally, The Project
I have been in my RetCom home for 14 months now, and am slowly making some friends here. Being deaf and having Aspie traits has made that process difficult as it has for most everything in my last 35 years. Finding my place here has been a struggle. I tried to start up an activity pointed towards hearing loss issues, but that just didn’t pan … Continue reading RetComLife – The Thing About Men: Part 2 -Let’s Build Stuff”
Before I get into the basic idea for this 3-day series about Retirement Community Life, I need to give you a little basic background. “Just the facts” as Joe Friday used to say on the TV show Dragnet. Most RetComs (retirement communities) are usually about 75% women and 25% men, and the majority of the staff of the community are primarily women. So, we men … Continue reading RetComLife – The Thing About Men Part 1: Just The Facts…
I have visited over 40 State Capitals in my travels around the U.S. and this is one of my favorite pictures. It is from the Capital Building of Connecticut in Hartford. I visited there during my recent trip through that beautiful State. I will have much more to say about that in an upcoming on-the-road post. At that time, I will give you a full … Continue reading EPS – Favorites
Progress has been slow in this endeavor to learn how to sketch. Maybe I am too impatient to wait out being accomplished at it. Or perhaps I just don’t think I will, with the time left for me, ever be accomplished at this new thing. So, I am going to take a shortcut in getting to the expected end result I desire. I am quite … Continue reading Artsy Saturday – Learning To Sketch Lesson- An Update
Given the human psyche, a person could spend a lifetime discovering who he actually is. When I was thinking how fragile the human psyche is, the above words came to me. When I look back on my life I can now see specific incidents to showed that my Aspie traits have been with me all along. Why didn’t I discover that until recently? I guess … Continue reading Given The Human Psyche…
It is tragic to me how many people take our democracy for granted. They just can’t be bothered to, once every couple of years, take an hour out of their time to vote. Presently, an extreme minority has a strangle hold on our country because of this complacency about voting. We must all realize that a democracy takes work, we can’t take it for granted. … Continue reading If Everybody Voted…
I can’t cite you chapter and verse, but I know somewhere in the Bible it says that we are to obey our masters and to satisfied with our place in life. Since this sounds very contrary to the words of Jesus, so I suspect it is in the Old Testament or maybe the words of Paul. It tells us if we obey our masters we … Continue reading I Command You To Be Satisfied…
For the vast majority of my existence, I have always believed that my commitments have dictated that I live on other people’s terms. In the last year or so, I have reached that point where I can live as I choose without considering others. In some ways being able to live on your own terms is scary…. I just don’t seem to know how to … Continue reading For The First Time In My Life…
When I create something beautiful, I know it immediately, and it gives me great pleasure. That is what gives me joy in my life. I believe I have created Beauty in many forms: Then there is the beauty that I had nothing to do with except to enjoy it Beauty, love, and other such words often have dramatically different meanings to each of us. One … Continue reading Beauty Is A Feeling, More Than Anything Else.
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