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Gabby Petito – Another Lost
The video of the stop in Moab Utah. Fair warning – It is hard to watch. I heard the news this morning about Gabby Petito as I checked my feeds. The confirmation of my worst fears was there, displayed on the screen. I heard there was a video of the interaction with law enforcement in…
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Picking up Clues: January 6, 2021
Holiday break is over. That means I am back at the keys. You can’t see me but I’m over here shaking my head because of the events in the US in the past 24 hours. I’m reading all my various news feeds and still head shaking. It’s mystifying – why are all these people acting…
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Everyone else is just too tall
Several years ago I was introduced to the idea of “the culture of character” and its near opposite “the culture of personality.” Before I plunge into today’s societal navel-gazing it is worth the time to look at and define these two types of social structures. They may appear to some people to be synonymous. Other…
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Outta Left Field : Tums for Breakfast
There are two emotions competing for my attention this morning, relief and dread. It is a curious combination. At first, I didn’t understand the emotions. As I looked at the returns from election day and saw that Trump was not elected for a second term, despite his declaration of victory I thought I would feel…
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Outta Left Field : Beginning of the end
The hope for every sane person in the United States is that on November 3rd, 2020 there will be an indisputable mandate from the citizens of this nation. The desire is that the election of 2020 will not be occluded by doubt.
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Outta Left Field : Trump Might Win
Note: I can tell this is taking on a life of its own. So, I’ll attempt to collect them all under the “Outta Left Field” category. Trump could win another four years. Despite a blue wave. In the clutch of a pandemic. Faced with so many people who have waited four years to vote him…
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Outta Left Field : A Trump Presidency
I chose my education with the sole purpose of becoming a diplomat. As a child of the eighties, the Reagan “Bear in the Woods” message resonated. Add to that some other personality quirks and I was planning to save the world by disarming the two great superpowers to create peace. Well, it didn’t quite work…
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The Address on Independence Day That Our Nation Needed
My Fellow Americans, Thank you for joining me here this evening to celebrate the creation of this nation that we all love. We stand together tonight beneath the presence of four of our former leaders in the celebration of our nation and our history. And that is how we Americans like to view the history…
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Thoughts on what we lost on 9/11
This is a re-post from a piece I wrote on 9/11/2015. Today is that day. For me this is a day full of emotion and an ominous mind. I look out my front window and see almost exactly what I saw on that day years ago, a green field and that same cerulean sky, crystal…