I took the first step to setting up a “social media platform”. Or maybe the third, or the fourth or even the fifth ‘first step’. The FIRST first step was deciding to set up a simple Blog, then I realized I could have an online store, so I decided to set up a website to […]
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Since my mother’s passing in March of 2022, I’ve been thinking a lot about turning points, new ideas, new paths, new directions, and moving forward with my life. After the last ten years as a caregiver, I have the opportunity to make a course correction, and I’m taking advantage of it. Throughout my prior twenty
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Ten years ago this week my sister called to let me know it was time to return to Texas to help care for my father as he faced an inevitable end from a 2009 back-to-back diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and prostate cancer. Both conditions typically progress slowly and unpredictably, so we made a long term decision
Above: An extremely big picture of the Galactic Center, an Atlas Image mosaic obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation. Yesterday I enrolled in Revit
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“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” – from lyrics by John Lennon. As 2020 drew to a close I intentionally took a temporary break from this blog to re-evaluate and “make other plans” in response to the new normal that Covid-19 has brought to our world. Voluntary and mandatory
Pictured above: The Phoenix, High relief stone carving, Cathedral of St Stephen, Metz, France. Image by Michel Boucly from Pixabay Ancient stories and traditions tell the story of the Phoenix, a great and solitary bird that lives for 500 years, or 1,000 years, or 12,999 years… nobody knows for sure. Intelligent and wise, the bird
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Please Pardon This Interruption… I’ve been posting on The Overleaf Chronicles Blog for four months, and I’m fairly happy with the result. Still, it needs a few tweaks here and there, and I’d like it to be a little more focused, so I’m taking a short hiatus from The Overleaf Chronicles to get some things
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…or a wall of sound?When I listen to music I automatically see structures, shapes, forms, and colors moving and developing through time. A simple melody bursts forth in my mind as a glittering artifact in four dimensions. Tempo, rhythm and beat set the foundation and spacing of the structure. Musical phrases build a myriad of
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Top: Child With Flower, Oil on Canvas, (1945) ~ Pablo Picasso “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso It was a cool clear NYC day in early September 2001 when my life effectively ended. That sounds like a very dramatic and ominous
I confess I haven’t been accomplishing very much in the garden lately. The heat has just been too much, and I’ve moved my attention to a number of things inside the house, where I can work in air conditioned comfort. That doesn’t mean I haven’t done anything out doors, I finally moved the remaining reclaimed
In Bed This Week 09/07/2020 – Putting It All Together Read More »