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Archive for December, 2010

Requiem to the English Language

12.21.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

I read an article this morning in The New York Times that saddened me greatly. It saddened me from several perspectives. Maybe not quite so much saddened on this one as astounded: the rampant pace at which inter-personal media preferences are changing. Just five years ago email was the communication vehicle de rigor. Read on ...

Winter Muse Arrives

12.17.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

Haiku — remember when we had to write them so many moons ago in grammar and high school? I used to love writing haiku. Now my head is filled with so much imagery and magic from solstice’s long shadows that the haikus are seeming to seep from the very cells of my brain. OF  THE ...

Earn Your Oxygen

12.08.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

I was having a conversation with a young man, a gaming addict all of 14, where the point of my discussion was to encourage pay-backs — but only in the positive sense. It’s like this I said to him, – this is no free ride.  It’s time to start thinking about contributing to the world, to society, ...