I have been casually studying of Aristotle for many years, and have recently started another book about him. He was definitely a dreamer/thinker that I could never even imagine being. It is amazing to me how so many of his … Continue reading The Pursuit of Happiness #4: According to Aristotle
RJsCorner is in its 14th year now, so I have covered countless categories in the 5,000 posts you will find here. As the years have gone by my primary focus here has changed several times. The latest change will be … Continue reading RJsCorner – It’s Time For A Change
All my life I have been stuck between two worlds. Perhaps the most severe is when I went totally deaf 34 years ago. It was obvious that I was no longer in the hearing world, but by the same token … Continue reading Stuck Between Two Worlds…
I will admit up front that I am just not much of a Mark Twain enthusiast. His folksy way of writing just never appealed to me. And then there were his senior years when he became an extremely bitter old … Continue reading The Difference Between…
I have always been fascinated by murals, but when I recently saw the topic discussed on the PBS Newshour it gave me the insight for future µRV trips. Click HERE to see the PBS report. I know I need another … Continue reading Murals
Let’s start out this post with three collages that my wife made a year before her death. She spent hours arranging and re-arranging the photos of all the pets in our married life to make them just right. I now … Continue reading RetComLife #20 – How About Pets?
Here I am almost 8 months since my wife’s heart attack that ended her life, and I am still dealing with these end-of-life issues. One of the many things you have to do when you lose a spouse is to … Continue reading Quality Of Life…Just Pull The Plug
Let’s continue on with the look at the article What is Happiness by Kendra Cherry as mentioned last Wednesday. She says that happiness is a very subjective thing that varies greatly from one person to another. Here is a list … Continue reading The Pursuit of Happiness #3 – How To Know If You’re Happy
50 years from now I will certainly be worm food, but maybe not. If I am cremated I don’t think they would much like the ashes. 🤪 Ok, enough silliness, let’s get to the point. 50 years from now people … Continue reading 50 Years From Now…
I’ve been posting too much about adversity being on the margins. It’s time I started looking at the positive stuff that puts us there. Yes, I am on the spectrum, but even that has a lot of good stuff about … Continue reading Life On The Margins – It’s not just about adversity…
If I am to believe much of what I have read, education has not seriously begun to track the needs of the future world. The key problem in the U.S. is how education is funded, and content is determined at … Continue reading Education IS The Key…
I got this picture from my on-line image service so don’t know anything about the source other than I find it beautiful. My dad spent much of his retirement life making stained-glass art, but they were never like this one. … Continue reading What a Stained Glass!
One thing you should be paying attention to when you are choosing a retirement community is the weekly activities. Are there any that interest you or make you happy? I am still pretty active in my life away from my … Continue reading RetComLife #19 – Things That Make Me Happy
I know this is a terrible time to take on, as I am doing, a project related to happiness. It looks like we might be mired down into another mutation of this stupid COVID virus. When will it end? That … Continue reading We Gotta Find Something to be Happy About.
I have spent the last couple of weeks studying the idea of happiness. I’ve looked at a couple of dozen different sources for a place to start. One article I came across that impressed me with its brevity, yet completeness … Continue reading The Pursuit of Happiness #2 – Where To Start…
RJsCorner is not known to shy away from controversial subjects, so with the post, I am “having my say” about the Critical Race Theory (CRT). Maybe we should call Critical Race Theory a cultural overhaul, since CRT seems to be … Continue reading A Cultural Overhaul
Those of us Baby Boomers on the spectrum have usually spent our lives trying to live up to other’s expectations. We were told very early own that we were too shy, so get over it and join the mainstream. That … Continue reading Living Up To Others Expectations…
Let’s spend this lazy Sunday after Thanksgiving talking about technological progress and how it is changing our world. Fifty years from now everthing we think of as the miracles of technology will be long forgotten and replace by much better … Continue reading Solutions Seeking Problems…
A Children’s Art Contest gallery was recently displayed at my retirement community. The talent shown by these young artists is amazing. I was particularly drawn to the one above. 10 years-old and already painting such beautiful pictures. It is very … Continue reading Kid’s Nature Discovery Art Contest
We Baby Boomers were the first generation to easily travel. Airplanes, the Interstate system and such allowed us to experience lots of regional and international foods that were not available to the previous generations who are presently the majority in … Continue reading RetComLife #18 – Technology-Driven Improvements in Dining.
I will be spending this day with some of the family clan. It’s been too many years since I have done that. I have a lot to be thankful for. Not the least of which is you guys who come … Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving
Welcome to the new Wednesday series entitled The Pursuit of Happiness. This series, we will be studying what happiness has meant throughout the ages, and trying to discover within ourselves what it means to each of us. As usual, I … Continue reading The Pursuit of Happiness #1 – Changing My View
I know this is nothing earth-shaking to you, but I take the agenda here at RJsCorner quite seriously. It is the roadmap for the many words I put here. I’m sure, to you, it has about as much significance as … Continue reading The Agenda, It Is A-Changing … Again
I took a test years ago to determine where I am on the Intelligence Spectrum. That test gave me a number to know where I am on that spectrum. My number was 135. I didn’t think much of it at … Continue reading It’s Time For A Re-Label…
I am approaching 5,000 posts here on RJsCorner, how can that be! If I divide that many posts among this blog’s thirteen years of existence, that adds up to a little over 1 post/day. That’s a lot of blogging (over … Continue reading The Evolution of RJsCorner
I appreciate modern art such as this one for its composition and color spectrum, but more so when it has a story attached. RIP Marie… Continue reading As You Like It
One thing that annoys me is that the sit-down dining option which is basically the only option aside from after the meal carry-outs in my retirement community wastes too much of my time. Having a full-service sit down dining is … Continue reading RetComLife #17 – Other Choices In Food Services
I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that didn’t work. Thomas Edison I have been to most of Thomas Edison’s historic sites and have marveled at his ingenuity and perseverance. They say it took him 10,000 tries … Continue reading I Have Not Failed…
The strongest emotion that I think I have is empathy for those, like me, who have faced some pretty serious struggles through life. That, and my lack of a sense of accomplishment in this emotions series, is what this post … Continue reading About Emotions #8 – Summing It Up
Like a good aged wine, I am an acquired taste. The first view of RJsCorner might taste a little strong or bitter, but if you stick around, you just might learn to enjoy what you see here. I know I … Continue reading I Am An Acquired Taste
After some serious study about autism in general and Asperger’s in particular, I am convinced that the scientific community has a basic flaw when it comes to autism. That flaw is that 95% of the studies and articles about autism … Continue reading I Think The Scientific Community Has It Wrong About Autism Studies
You came on the world scene at the age of 11 when you started school strikes to do what you could to make people pay attention to climate change. You stopped eating and talking and fell into depression that scared … Continue reading Here’s To You Greta…
Let’s do another visit to Disney World for this “Picture Saturday”. This one is from the musical extravaganza “Lion King”. This was maybe my favorite picture from that 2016 visit. Even though I couldn’t hear the music, I could feel … Continue reading Lion King…
My retirement community is struggling to keep the dining services up to their usual standards. Wait staff is nearly impossible to find during this pandemic, so the salaried staff are having to provide that service in addition to their usual … Continue reading RetComLife #16 – Cloud Kitchens & Café Dining
I think I am finally at the point in my life that I am ready to put the concept of “Simplify” more fully into my daily life. All these years of collecting things with that word in them is finally … Continue reading Simplicity/Happiness Link…
I have learned over my life that to survive as a deaf person on the Spectrum, I need to control my emotions. That doesn’t mean to stifle them, but to instead understand where they are coming from and to try … Continue reading About Emotions #7 – Confusion Among the Experts… And A Path Forward
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