Category: Commentary
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Martial Arts During My Temp Work Career, ‘Till Retirement – Memoir Continued
Martial Arts During My Temp Work Carreer, ‘Till Retirement Most evenings and weekends, I worked on perfecting my own styles of martial arts, Aiki-jujitsu and Aikido, and Tai Chi Chuan. I also took lessons in Bagua Zhang and Xingyiquan. But I didn’t get very far in them, just not enough time. I should have started…
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Temp Work – Diebold and Phillips – Memoir Continued
Temp Work – Diebold and Phillips One of my temp technical writer positions was for Diebold, Inc. in Canton, OH. I worked on updating their spreadsheets and operation manual templates to reflect the changes dictated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This was another short-term project, lasting about 6 months. It was also the best…
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Tina W. – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Tina W. – Part 2 So, I made an email account, calling myself El Lobo, and sent her friend, who turned out to be Tina, a couple of poems. Tina liked them and sent me a couple of her’s. Then Sue told me to ask Tina about her cat dying and some other things that…
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Spooky Action In The Sound Of A Word
Spooky Action In The Sound Of A Word om – aumvoidquantum fieldunified fieldthe taothe sourcethe universe god overlapingnuanceddifferencesirrelevant dispite uniqueperspectivesquantumlyentangledspooky action at a distanceinferes we’re all the same quantumentangledin the voidin the taoat the sourcein the quantum fieldin the unified fieldthe universe godomaumin the soundof a word –LE
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A Red Sky
A Red Sky A red sky dripping oozing blood backdrop ofsocietycivilization progressive pretense crusted and smothered in disease ashblackish grayish poverty deathdestroying every natural thing it touches vaunted techno-progress dealing death efficientlyprofoundlyinexorably Earth’s progenyfeed – declinecloth – declinehouse – declinewe’ve chosen asixth major extinctionfor greed’s sakefor profitfor ‘progress’ humanity but a virus blight on Terrafirmawhich…
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Ring Around the Moon
Ring Around the Moon by Elephant Revival There’s a ring around the moonThere’s a ring around the moonThere’s a ring around the moonThere’s a ring around the moon ‘Neath the halo of the moonBlew down on her sailSeasons changingI can smell it in the airI can see it in their paintings And I can hear…
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Tina W. – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
Tina W. – Part 1 Back at Kinetico, after my split with Anne, one of my co-workers, an older engineer, Sue V., knowing of my recent separation from my wife, wanted to hook me up with her best friend, Tina W. I told her that I wasn’t interested and thought that was the end of…
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50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 2 I was having a late breakfast with a couple of the engineers I worked with at Rockwell and watched the two planes hit the towers on the diner’s TV, Breakiing News. Needless to say, the whole country was in shock and denial for years after.…
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50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 1 After a couple of years of being ‘single’, during which time I did have a couple of very short-term dating experiences, I met someone who would become my long-term partner and confidant. I’ll get into how we met soon, but for the present, suffice it…
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Child of Mine
Dear child of mineI hope that life, you will findIs kind to those with generous heartThose who keep an open mindThe trick is knowingHow to keep goingWith life’s uncertaintyI know you can do itAnd compassion willPull you through itI know you can beAll the good thingsYou can dream –LE
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