There and Back Again

Pondering: When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. (Lao Tzu)
A feeling of elation washed over me today during my early morning walk. It was foggy when I set off for my four-mile walk. I could hardly see anything or anyone. The cool [...]

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Pondering: My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. (Woody Allen)
…I looked like this.

Those were the days. Gone is the innocence, I think though I am still as hopeful. This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the many years of good health and reasons to smile.

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Pondering: Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. (Walt Whitman)
My sister told me today, that some folks in my office - she won’t name who - think that I am rude and abrupt. [...]

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Pondering: My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been. (Diane Arbus)
I have grown an affinity for the following things, of late (in no particular order):

Mauna Loa chocolates
CBS’s Criminal Minds
Little Britain - USA
Anton Corbin’s movie, Control, which tells the tragic story of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the English band Joy Division
Ian McEwan books
Minnesota [...]

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Pondering: We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. (Stephen Hawking)
I was browsing one day and chanced upon this one. If I were giving out awards for CD sleeves - this one gets [...]

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Pondering: It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. (Barack Obama)
Whether you voted for him or not or believe he can bring change or not; whether you are a Republican, Green Party or a doubting Democrat; whether you have good things to [...]

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