This page and my webpage Do Something You Are Afraid to Do Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and originator of Transcendentalism in 1836. He emphasized a personal experience with the inherent divinity in nature. He believes self-reliance, and the simple life can lead to a spirituality that transcends the realm of rationality and …
Category Archives: Musing Around
Heard This Before?
This page and my webpage Restoration story follows the same pattern. Widespread disorder afflicts the land. Centralized, powerful and nefarious forces cause and maintain this disorder. The only way out of the current disorder is to defeat these centralized powers. Heroic people with a new plan build new communities, new order and restore harmony to …
Deliberate Accident
This page and my webpage Insurance agents and economists see the world as numbers and probabilities. Accidents may seem random and unpredictable. But behind every event are a string of decisions and conditions that allow and maybe encourages an accident. Risky behavior doesn’t seem risky because we get away with it over and over again. …
Never Say This
This page and my webpage A few things that sound really odd to my ears. The list is long and what does that say about me? Fighting for peace Honor killing Irregardless Working for fun Anyone can be president I haven’t got all day To be honest… Freedom fighter Hurry up and wait Healthy treat …
Information Age
Go to my webpage at vividlee.com Television has been a major source of information and influence on people in the US since the 1960’s. Think moon landing. That’s 60 years so far. And now the ubiquity and widespread use of the internet and social media shows us that a change has taken place. The old …
Now
This page and that page One’s life is a package of time. Some parts in the past. Some parts in the future. We might spend our time thinking about the past. We might spend our time thinking about the future. We might even spend time thinking about the present, the now. Compared to the past …
Thief of Joy
This page and that page Comparison is the thief of joy. In life there is inequality. There is always better and more. But remember, there is enough. That’s all we need. All else is what we want and maybe what we want makes us unhappy. It happens.
We Forget
This page and that page Nice for us to forget Iran Air Flight 655. Some people will never forget. I don’t blame them. Civilian Airbus A300 with 290 killed when shot down on June 3, 1988 by the United States Navy USS Vincennes Aegis guided middle cruiser while in Iranian territory. The US paid $213,103.45 …
Life
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Anthropocene
Go to my webpage at vividleee.com Geologic epochs are super long time spans visible in rocks. Three million years is a long time and earth’s climate can be deduced in the chemistry of the layers. Climate is generally understood to be measured as an average of 30 years of weather. Weather being what we experience …