I have written recently that my father, who lived nearly to 94, said that he never stopped feeling like a boy — in effect a second-class citizen. I felt that way too up until about 15 years ago, when I began to study voluntaryism.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Twenty-Five Years
“If your doctor told you today, there is a new advancement that makes it possible for me to extend your life expectancy by 25 years — for a reasonable price — all I need is your OK. What would you say?”
Words Poorly Used #123 — Evolved
The word, “evolved,” it seems is heard frequently as an alternate to “refined.” But there is a subtle difference.
Budget-Think
In a world where process is invented as though it were bandages and antiseptic gel, budget-think is the stopgap, short term parent process. As a good, former bureaucrat, I learned long ago to address the shortest term effects with the longest term process.
Fifty-Fifty
The paradigm has to be changed. But we must avoid the old siren song of central planning. We have had enough of trying to control from where maturity and brightness come. We only know that it doesn’t automatically come from old white guys with too much schooling and/or too much money.
Rock Salt
I guess now teevee weatherpersons are not the only ones who lose their composure at the prospect of snow.
Radio Play
The most important element, to me, was that my two youngest granddaughters were in the cast, and they were treated as peers by us seniors.
Entanglements
I’ve just been listening to a BBC report about the reconciliation of BREXIT to the supposed desires of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the EU, and the UK. Sorry, but I have to say “I told you so.”
Why Not All
Last week, after many public figures had been ostracized for sexual misconduct, the only ones standing were elected politicians. Now two of those politicians have resigned, two or more are still standing.
Words Poorly Used #122 — Adolescence
99% of the problems that human children have are engendered by their being sequestered in a special class, that is neither here nor there. Very few humans escape carrying this pernicious damage into the rest of their lives.