The unseen are immersed in scurrilous activities. They are working hard on propagating their ongoing and ultimate conspiracy: the conspiracy which makes us think everything else is a conspiracy. But they can’t fool me. I know their game; I sense their charade. Their sleight of hand is (more…)
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crisscross
Posted: January 8, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: beauty, conspiracy, crisscross, humor, lies, life, nonsense, not humor, random, Roswell, truth
the gift that keeps on giving
Posted: December 20, 2011 in Observations and CommentaryTags: Christmas, family, friends, holidays, life, people, random
Did you ever notice when you reach a certain age it’s much more common for a name to drop off your holiday card list rather than make its way onto it? I find my list shrinks every year, if only by tiny increments. It’s a curious thing. There was a time everyone, and I mean everyone, who occupied space in my life at that moment received a card. I guess simply knowing that many people was (more…)
hey you, I got off of your cloud
Posted: December 15, 2011 in Observations and CommentaryTags: cloud, cloud computing, humor, iPod, life, music, revolution, technology
All buzz centers on “the cloud.” You no longer need to download songs or movies or books to your gizmo of choice. You no longer need to worry about computer storage for your photos and personal files. Those productivity applications you use, you don’t need to run them from your PC. Everything can be forever accessed, run and stored in and from “the cloud.”
I’m sure this is a gross oversimplification, but my understanding of “the cloud” is all your data – from movies to songs to Word files to photos to (more…)
framework
Posted: December 9, 2011 in Observations and CommentaryTags: appreciation, buildings, change, illusion, life, random
We breathe life into buildings so they can serve us. They rise among a flurry of spellbinding expectations, speculations of glory. Their unveilings are accompanied with excessive self-congratulatory celebration by their creators. Speeches are given, ribbons cut. For a brief, glorious period new buildings are treated reverently and tenderly, like a baby. We “oooo” and “ahhh”, say all the right things, and fawn with appreciation. Yet the tides (more…)
the tux shop
Posted: November 21, 2011 in Observations and Commentary, PhotographyTags: life, memories, nostalgia, past, Photography, time travel
The concept of traveling to the past within one’s own life intrigues many people. Possible motivations are limited only by the scope of their experiences. Perhaps it’s a chance for redemption, to not repeat those foolish things which let a special person drift away. Perhaps it’s to avoid a traumatic event, to stay home during that wild blizzard rather than (more…)
prison reform
Posted: November 11, 2011 in Observations and CommentaryTags: criminals, life, penal colonies, policy, prison, punishment, random, reform
Several months ago I gave a broad sketch on how to reduce wasteful spending and minimize political gridlock in Congress through a bold plan to reconfigure the states. None of the major presidential candidates have stepped forward to support this plan. That’s okay. Political change moves like a drunken slug. What we can do is continue offering suggestions aimed at (more…)
what next?
Posted: November 10, 2011 in Observations and CommentaryTags: decisions, life, pace, progress, questions, random, relax, what next
What next?
What’s your plan?
Where to from here?
What are you going to do?
We hear these questions all the time, from every direction. They come from (more…)
yes, yes i did that
Posted: November 2, 2011 in Observations and CommentaryTags: campaigns, candidates, didn't inhale, life, politics, truth
You hear the breaking news, the latest scandal, the newest revelation and pause to once again wonder about the sense of people who run for public office. How large is someone’s ego to think those things said or done in the past will stay buried while they seek the spotlight of national attention? Worse yet, how dim is their grasp of the realities of today’s world to assume, even for a moment, any past misstep will not (more…)
the power is you
Posted: October 28, 2011 in Observations and CommentaryTags: belief, hope, life, optimism, power, random, you
We live in tough times, difficult times. Pressures crowd us with a relentless urgency that often makes it hard to distinguish between up and down, right and wrong. Our path gets riddled with doubt and the muddier it becomes the easier it is to stumble. Our struggles squeeze us so tightly that our spirit fades, our body sags. When Thomas Paine said, “These are times that try men’s souls” he could have been talking about (more…)
Trask Avenue 
higher power
Posted: January 10, 2012 in Observations and CommentaryTags: choices, destiny, fate, free will, higher power, life, random thoughts
Regardless of what form the higher power takes it does not guide or help us navigate our way through life. We exist in a gigantic cosmic crapshoot with no preconceived outcomes. The future is uncharted until it actually arrives. Fate does not exist, not in the way people describe it. Fate is an (more…)