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it’s getting old
The Big Five, Part 1: Aging
First on the list..
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December 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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We are all connected
Interconnectedness
Layers of connection...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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A winter poem
A Winter Snapshot
God rest ye..
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December 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Blame
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Ain't no game.
Blame
Jump under the bus.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Order and Chaos
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This and/or that.
Order and Chaos
Wholesome, Unwholesome, or Neutral.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Our Space
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Just enough.
Our Space
A component of humility.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Abandon
Free from constraints.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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we are mostly water
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Water being: being water
we are mostly water
it doesn’t matter where we begin where in the circle we start doesn’t matter what state we’re in gaseous, liquidity, solidity freshwater or salty sleet, hail, snow, ice, steam glacier, lake, fog, iceb...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Innocence
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Opting for openness.
Innocence
... as if we didn't know...
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November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Snow
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Snow
... a winter poem
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November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Growth
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Many ways to grow.
Growth
Plant, animal and cosmological.
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November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Suffering
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Suffering...
Suffering
Posts about climate and environment, politics and mindfulness.
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November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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A notable relationship.
Art and Mindfulness
Mindful pursuits
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November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Brain as Pet
Trainable.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Expectations
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Avoiding disappointment.
Expectations
Arranging for disappointment.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Transformations
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Casual miracles every day.
Transformations
Casual miracles.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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A Very Short History of the Evolution of Western Tonality
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The characterization of vibrations.
d
Tonality and semitones.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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You and the Apple
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Mindful eating.
You and the Apple
Inter-being.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Self
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The nuances of being.
The Self
Thing, or nothing?
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October 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Demagogue
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Love trumps hate.
Demagogue
One who is afflicted by greed and delusion.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Demagogue
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Love trumps hate.
Demagogue
One who is afflicted by greed and delusion.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Reasoning
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What to do, what to do ...
Reasoning
Deciding what to do.
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October 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Contraction of Freedom
Expansion of mindfulness.
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September 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Simply complex
Good and Evil
In a comedy bit, the comedian Emo Phillips is in line to be judged by God.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Difference
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Sameness is boring.
Difference
A gift of the universe.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM