I hope for a brighter future.I hope for healing for our planet.I pray that all sentient beings will be free from needless suffering. That is what I wish. Thinking about all of this, I’m reminded of the ocean. Water makes up 70 percent of our planet, after all. I haven’t been on a beach in […]
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Brutus By Linda Stowe “Et tu Brute,” were the final words of a dying Julius Caesar after he had been attacked by members of the Roman Senate. “And you Brutus?” Caesar uttered when he saw that his friend Brutus was among his attackers. Caesar had been targeted because members of the Senate believed he would
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Working nine to five. What a way to make a living.Barely getting by. It’s all taking and no giving. Those were the eloquent words of Dolly Parton, as we all know. And we also know the song continues, telling us that the working world is a tough place to be. There are a lot of
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Why doesn’t the United States get on board with the rest of the world and start using the metric system? You know. Raise our standards to the world’s standards.The liter. The meter. The power of tens. Not the niner, or the twelve, or the thirty-six. The power of tens. We could be finer if only we’d
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Our world is full of hoaxes these days.An insurgency of these started back in 2016. Yes. That is when the big trouble began. When I speak of this windfall, I mean we all heard the word “hoax” come out of the president’s mouth on a daily basis. In all the presidents before that time, we
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We all need something to watch every now and again.It is our human nature to watch.The cavemen and cavewomen used to sit around the boulders and watch their newly discovered fire.The peasants used to sit around on their wooden chairs and watch the soup boil and the socks dry.The folks from the Roaring 20s used
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We don’t watch a lot of TV. But every evening, we settle in and stream our favorite shows for a couple of hours. The lineup has been diverse over the years. But recently, I convinced Mary to watch EVIL on Paramount Plus. I’ve seen them all to date. But I think it is an inventive,
The Devil made him do it. Again and again and again. Read More »
Slow and Steady by Linda Stowe. The old trope of “slow and steady wins the race” is the perfect description of how I have lived my life. I set my goals and move ahead at an even tempo to meet them. Once a goal is met, I set the next goal and when I meet
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