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What’s A Blog – My 314th Post – A Trigger Warning

There are times in our lives (at least in mine) where a light comes on, or a door opens, unto an understanding of how our minds work and how we process the many bits and pieces of information we are … Continue reading

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The New Year Every Year.

“The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills” is the title of a book and subsequent poem that Charles Bukowski wrote and published in 1969. The book was printed and published by the Black Sparrow Press in Los … Continue reading

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The New World

This was originally written in April 2020 and for some reason never published. It has some good stuff so here it is today. One of my favorite past times is reading the newspaper. I know, that is kind of “old … Continue reading

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The Joy of Running

In my dream, which I recently realized I have had more than once, I am running in a neighborhood, at night, on the sidewalk, in my bare feet. My strides are long and evenly paced and the feeling is that … Continue reading

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Life Stories

One of my favorite program on television is This Is Us. The series follows the lives and families of two parents, and their three children, in several different time frames. On any given episode, there may be several separate story … Continue reading

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Letting Off A Little Steam

In light of this coronavirus lockdown, social distancing and all the rest, I stumbled upon this thought this morning. I was imagining myself as an older John Prine who had not spent most of his life not writing songs. I … Continue reading

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I Am Younger Than That Now

My life at almost seventy seems to be an endless stream of thoughts and memories that appear on the horizon of my mind’s eye and then fade to the credits without so much as a ripple in the ocean of … Continue reading

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The Information Age

Hi. My name is Terry Henry and I am an information junkie! I can almost see myself at some Information Anonymous meeting, in the basement of some small church, in a poorly lit neighborhood, acknowledging my addiction. And now, looking … Continue reading

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The Aging Process Is Not Trout Fishing

I recently finished reading for perhaps the 2nd or 3rd time Richard Brautigan’s 1967 collection of stories entitled “Trout Fishing In America”. In the book, Brautigan would tell a story and would then assume the persona of the book’s title … Continue reading

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Violence

As I slowly begin to press open the gate towards the 70th anniversary of my birth, there are many things about this life on earth that I don’t understand and violence is one of them. Defined by Webster as: the … Continue reading

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