Archives: Weekly Thoughts
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Updates & Requests
Material Requests? Perhaps you’ll recall my previous note (posted last time: See Covid Thoughts #2) about working to add more ‘stuff’ to the mailings during this time when we could all use diversions. As you’ll see below, one way to do that to occasionally share ‘back-in-the-old-days’ stuff from the Mailing Archives. Along those lines, let me…
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Book Lover and/or Collector?
Back near my retirement, I went through a book-collection phase. I collected modern first editions of a variety of authors (popular author? – I probably have several titles), as well as some OLD – and fairly valuable – complete sets (Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Harold Bell Wright, etc.). This has been partly ongoing, but, now,…
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Wild Cards! April 6, 2020
Krazy Pic 1 We don’t usually see this complaint in this direction, do we? 🙂 Krazy Pic 2 Adapting humorously to hard times? Shared by subscriber – and cousin! – Deba Brant, who took this picture on a walk by the Catholic Church near her home a couple of weeks ago. Cartoon of the Week It’s been a…
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Photo of the Week – Mar 23, 2020
Monument Valley Situated on the Arizona/Utah border, this amazing region is incredibly beautiful and majestic. (For size/distance perspective, note the Valley Road with vehicles in the foreground.) Taken in May 2013, on a beautiful day punctuated by white cumulus clouds, I was delighted when the center sandstone butte fell under the shadow of one of…
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CoVid19 Thoughts #1 (Serious)
“These are the times that try men’s souls.” When Thomas Paine wrote those words in Common Sense in 1776, he could not have known how applicable they would suddenly seem today, almost 250 years later, in an entirely different setting. Our country (and the world) are in for a rough spell, to put it mildly. And,…
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CoVid19 Thoughts #2 (Not So Much)
These crazy Bi-Weekly Photo/Sharing Mailings have always been fun for me. They’re meant to be a collection of “Monday Morning Brighteners”, designed partly to bring smiles, diversions, and an occasional moment’s reflection or two. I’m hoping they can do even more of that these days. To that end . . . 1. During these crisis…
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Wild Cards! March 23, 2020
And The People Stayed Home We start on a more serious-but-inspirational note. This has apparently been going viral, and it’s not hard to see why. It has touched me and I hope it does the same for you. And The People Stayed Home. Krazy Pic 1 I can’t quite deduce exactly what the product is, but it sure…
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Photo of the Week – March 9, 2020
Outskirts of Cobh, Ireland Cobh is a city on a small island in the harbor of Cork, Ireland. Cork is Ireland’s second largest city. Taken in May 2009. From the Across the Pond collection
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Spring Foward?
Did You Remember To Set Your Clock Ahead One Hour?
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Wild Cards! March 9, 2020
Krazy Pic 1 Perhaps the owner and builder mis-communicated? Can you spot the error? Krazy Pic 2 The latest entry in the category of Excellent advice, but likely not needed? Cartoon(s) of the Week – Bonus! I LOVE the off-beat humor of the HERMAN comic strip. I decided to use him this time and couldn’t decide on which…