Category: Musings

  • Relevant? Significant? Importance? None of these words seem to encompass the meaning desired. If any come close it may be relevance. 1.having direct bearing on the matter in hand; pertinent Yet, this meaning seems to pertain only to transient matters, rather than on-going ones. Would it be proper to say: I have decided to eliminate…

  • Here I sit taking inventory once again of my life’s journey. I am sure that I have done this before, perhaps not so clearly. In many ways what I have written reflects my travels. Yet to sit down and reflect on things that have led me to my present state feels like an old and…

  • Some say that everyone has three faces: One for the public, one for family, one for self. But I say human beings change throughout their lives. The face one wears now was not the face worn yesterday, nor will it be the face worn tomorrow. The daily procession of images and information has an impact.…

  • I enter the ramp for the freeway and accelerate. My trusty steed, my Honda Silverwing, does not hesitate to answer my call. As I enter the freeway I have reached the posted speed limit. Soon, I notice, a car approaching. It passes, well, perhaps they are in a hurry. Then, however, another and another cruises…

  • A, B, C, D, F, wait… wait… where’s the E? Ever wonder why you received an assortment of grades while in school, but not an E? Early records of grades received by students did include an E. One record from Holyoke College indicates an E being used, but it was the lowest grade, as an…

  • Have you ever met a person, alive in all the physical ways, but dead inside? These are the people who drain you emotionally, distress you, bore you. For example, over my life I have had numerous hobbies, one in particular was the making of my own comic books. Almost to the person, people I have allowed…

  • I have elected not to do a post this week as it is vacation time. Sorry, but everyone needs a vacation once in a while. Vacation… a time for relaxation, a time of being with family and doing those things for which time is usually unavailable. Ever dream of the the ideal vacation. We had…

  • 130620 Dear Diary: I received a package this morning, out of the blue. I don’t remember ordering anything, wasn’t expecting anything. I am hesitant to open it,  its source and contents unknown. 130622 Dear Diary: My curiosity is growing, the box on my kitchen table remains unopened. I am going to open it today. 130623…

  • He/she died years ago, yet, today they died again. They didn’t die before I am told, yet I remember clearly the day they did, die before, that is. I know Mandala died long ago, yet then, he was freed, died again, and is now in recovery. Celebrities, politicians, it doesn’t matter who, I have heard…

  • The Universe, is it eternal or did it begin in a “Big Bang”. Well, I’m getting older, but I’m not that old, so I wasn’t standing around to see. It could have very well always have been here.  No one knows but many scientists conjecture from evidence that the Universe began in some sort of…