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if at first
Well the plan for yesterday didn’t go quite the way I had hoped. I did go crabbing with the grandkids but the crabs failed to show up for the party. Oh well, we are going to try again today. Got… Continue reading
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the plan
I’m writing this at 3:30 this morning because the plan for the day is to go crabbing. The grandkids, the wife and I figure on leaving about 5. I know, here it is over half way through July and I… Continue reading
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to be clear
Just thought I’d clear things up this morning. I keep hearing how it’s the white guys that have conquered everyone else and abused them. Going back through history we see it again and again. The Europeans were always fighting… Continue reading
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cards and candles
Yesterday I celebrated 66 years of being alive. Strange it doesn’t seem that long, but there is that thing called time, and as Einstein pointed out, it’s relative. I was overwhelmed with birthday wishes on my Facebook page. It was… Continue reading
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defining
I thought that a blog was usually centered on a specific topic or interest. I looked up the definition to discover that isn’t necessarily so. A blog is just a website or web page run by one or more people… Continue reading
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do you feel it?
You often hear someone say there is a groundswell of support for this or that. It has become an expression to describe a slow building of a very powerful force. Having been in the Navy and experienced many groundswells I… Continue reading
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a lesson learned
I saw a little piece on the news this morning. It was a human interest story about a woman that had beaten breast cancer. The story told of her struggle through thirty treatments. Now, she is cancer free. The story… Continue reading
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the truth is hateful
For a time yesterday I thought I had been placed in Facebook jail. I was unable to create a post on my timeline. That remained true for five or six hours. Then, just like that, the what’s on your mind… Continue reading
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agreeing
Qui tacet consentire videtur. That is a Latin phrase meaning ” he who is silent is taken to agree. ” It is used mostly in International Politics and referred to as a tacit agreement. In the contract world it doesn’t… Continue reading
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relatively speaking
It’s one of those things. It happens to all of us after a certain age. Einstein had a formula for it. It’s called relativity. Of course he was concerned with time, but I’m talking about relatives. I was talking with… Continue reading