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Thinking About Mother

It is interesting to me how memories of people we have known seem to come and go of their own volition. I can be calmly reading the evening news when a person from my past pops up in my mind. … Continue reading

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What We Now Know

I don’t remember how many times in my life I have reached the conclusion that the more it seems I know, the more I seem to realize how little I “know”. It is as if knowledge is never ending and … Continue reading

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Therefore I am

While showering this morning I momentarily entertained this spontaneous, warm-water epiphany: I am a simple man with simple thoughts—some are “simply true” and some are “simply not”. And that my friends is a revelation to me. I think that for … Continue reading

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Passion

Is it any wonder why us bloggers sometimes go weeks between posts and then seem to hit a mother load of thoughtful stuff to ruminate about. Then it is hard to keep ones fingers off the keyboard and those “can’t … Continue reading

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Just Another Piano Type Day

One of my most read posts is one I wrote last February entitled “A Bit Of The Past – From a Piano Perspective” in which I shared my fascination with and joy of pianos. The story recalled a memory from the late 60’s which, as those of us who lived it remember, were times of extreme joy and also sadness and uncertainty—much like the place many of us still inhabit on a somewhat regular basis.

But that is another story for another time.

Of course much has happened in the years since the sixties but one thing has remained more …
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A moment in time: looking up while looking down.

As I look back over the past 30 plus days in my life, my only totally concrete thought is “Where has the time gone?” I am sure that we have all shared that same thought—as if life is something that … Continue reading

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NYC—The Past and the Present

In light of recent postings about my anniversary trip to New York City several weeks ago—and because my mind is on vacation and I am in process of finding out where—I thought back to my initial introduction to the city … Continue reading

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Crepuscular, Poetry and the Declaration of Independence

Last night—actually early this morning—I awoke with a poem in my head like I often awake from a dream. I was tired and all I really wanted to do was to go back to sleep. But the more the words … Continue reading

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The “New” New Deal and the Mystery Revealed

I know we have all had thoughts or ideas that when first “hatched” seemed like the perfect answer to whatever question we had that produced the thought in the first place. In my own life, often after the idea is … Continue reading

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The Train Ride To NYC

My wife Sandi and I have been to New York City several times during the past 10 or 12 years. Each time, except the first and last, we flew out of the Greensboro Airport and into New York’s La Guardia … Continue reading

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