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December 2009
many of the thoughts I should be posting are in emails to different friends...
hard to believe it is Dec 2009...
hard to believe it is Dec 2009...
Friday, November 6, 2009
11/15/69
just checked
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?location=USOH0188
there was a record low for November 15th set in 1969 for Cincinnati, Ohio...
20 degrees...
so maybe there was a freezing cold wave before Thanksgiving in 1969 and that inspired me to grow a beard...
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?location=USOH0188
there was a record low for November 15th set in 1969 for Cincinnati, Ohio...
20 degrees...
so maybe there was a freezing cold wave before Thanksgiving in 1969 and that inspired me to grow a beard...
40 years ago
just realized it was Thanksgiving 1969 when I quit shaving... my Sophmore year at Miami University... felt it was the first time I had a full enough beard to grow a real beard... don't remember the exact date... I'm thinking I was getting ready to go home for Thanksgiving and didn't bother to shave and then decided it didn't make sense to shave and then go out into freezing weather... ALTHO, I have that memory more from being on campus... I do remember getting up and shaving and then going right out the door into freezing weather thinking THIS IS CRAZY... having a wet soft face from shaving and then walking out outside in cold freezing early morning windy weather... feeling like my face was going to "crack"...
wonder if I could find historic temperatures from Oxford Ohio to see how cold it was in November 1969...
also remember how slippery "SLANT WALK" on campus would be... it would ice over and we'd watch girls all dressed up falling down... knew one hippie girl that wore golf spikes to class... we'd walk in the grass...
wonder if I could find historic temperatures from Oxford Ohio to see how cold it was in November 1969...
also remember how slippery "SLANT WALK" on campus would be... it would ice over and we'd watch girls all dressed up falling down... knew one hippie girl that wore golf spikes to class... we'd walk in the grass...
Monday, November 2, 2009
Nov
thinking about nature and nuture...
takes me back to my childhood... thinking of both nature and nuture aspects of my "shyness" as a first grader... both my bio-chemistry AND my parents etc...
part of the nurture is the socio-economic environment of my parents and grandparents and birth... we forget we're only a decade removed from WWII and two decades from the Great Depression...
I can see my birth into the 50's as still steeped in the superstition of religion and FEAR/WORK ethic...
whereas, can you see how the 60's tried to replace all that with the LOVE ethic???
Mary of PPM died recently... and I think someone else died... or something about
60's folk music... and thinking that I was influenced by the Vietnam War... my first Chairman at EKU knew the guy who wrote the speeches and coined the expression MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX for IKE...
4 interesting decades... 1930's, 40's, 50's and 60'...
I am surprised they all followed one another so quickly...
the next 4 being the 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's don't seem distinct in a way... maybe societies and individuals reflect just a few basic patterns that alternate...
altho the 70's are a "material" -ization of the 60's...
the 80's and 90's maybe the 50's...
then the 00's are back to the 40's...
and I don't know where Obama has us now... I wish back in the 60's... but I'm afraid of right wing Christian/Republicans getting back in office too soon...
I sure hope Obama is successful at getting re-elected...
takes me back to my childhood... thinking of both nature and nuture aspects of my "shyness" as a first grader... both my bio-chemistry AND my parents etc...
part of the nurture is the socio-economic environment of my parents and grandparents and birth... we forget we're only a decade removed from WWII and two decades from the Great Depression...
I can see my birth into the 50's as still steeped in the superstition of religion and FEAR/WORK ethic...
whereas, can you see how the 60's tried to replace all that with the LOVE ethic???
Mary of PPM died recently... and I think someone else died... or something about
60's folk music... and thinking that I was influenced by the Vietnam War... my first Chairman at EKU knew the guy who wrote the speeches and coined the expression MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX for IKE...
4 interesting decades... 1930's, 40's, 50's and 60'...
I am surprised they all followed one another so quickly...
the next 4 being the 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's don't seem distinct in a way... maybe societies and individuals reflect just a few basic patterns that alternate...
altho the 70's are a "material" -ization of the 60's...
the 80's and 90's maybe the 50's...
then the 00's are back to the 40's...
and I don't know where Obama has us now... I wish back in the 60's... but I'm afraid of right wing Christian/Republicans getting back in office too soon...
I sure hope Obama is successful at getting re-elected...
Friday, October 23, 2009
TP
just thinking... kind of 4-6am thoughts...
a little lost in time and space...
semi-comfortably numb...
appreciating a quiet night...
thoughts and exercise and space...
a little lost in time and space...
semi-comfortably numb...
appreciating a quiet night...
thoughts and exercise and space...
Thursday, October 15, 2009
mid Oct ings
pretty wild fall...
morphing, moming, winterizing, wedding, traveling, liling...
makes me thankful... appreciating an existential life...
very thankful...
morphing, moming, winterizing, wedding, traveling, liling...
makes me thankful... appreciating an existential life...
very thankful...
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Oct
Seems like a lot of Obituaries to read...
Didn't know that FDR III was the ECON dept at Sarah Lawrence...
read a couple good books:
ONE: life is a process not a product... happiness and meaning and wisdom are feelings that parallel life... life is kind of a flow quantity and happiness/meaning/wisdom are sort of a parallel qualities that we add... kind of an accompanying attitude about life...
TWO: modern man grumbles in five "new" ways... (from Gregg Esaterbrook)
1. Choice Anxiety - we "suffer" from so many wonderful options...
2. Abundance Denial - we complain when we really have "so much"...
3. Loss Anxiety - we worry about losing all the "so much" we have
4. Abundance Satiation - we are uneasy and burdened by having "so much"
5. Meaning Anxiety - we have so much we can't find "meaning" in it all...
Didn't know that FDR III was the ECON dept at Sarah Lawrence...
read a couple good books:
ONE: life is a process not a product... happiness and meaning and wisdom are feelings that parallel life... life is kind of a flow quantity and happiness/meaning/wisdom are sort of a parallel qualities that we add... kind of an accompanying attitude about life...
TWO: modern man grumbles in five "new" ways... (from Gregg Esaterbrook)
1. Choice Anxiety - we "suffer" from so many wonderful options...
2. Abundance Denial - we complain when we really have "so much"...
3. Loss Anxiety - we worry about losing all the "so much" we have
4. Abundance Satiation - we are uneasy and burdened by having "so much"
5. Meaning Anxiety - we have so much we can't find "meaning" in it all...
Friday, August 28, 2009
Auggy
good tennis times with Woody... fun errands and stuff with Lucy... nice parties for Sarah... Mom turned 85...
all pretty wild... so thankful... Morphing...
enjoying being a little lighter on my feet...
all pretty wild... so thankful... Morphing...
enjoying being a little lighter on my feet...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
the burbs, kids, values
was reading that kids today are getting their values from their PEERS, because the world and culture and traditions and especially FAMILIES are in such CHAOS...
and I can kind of see that now...
it is a mish mash of values... when I grew up, everyone got their values from their parents and their churches... but everyone had 2 parents and went to church...
I think I broke away by going to college and reading and being influenced by peers
much later in life...
I don't know how different it is today... do kids become set in their thinking at a younger age... has TV and the INTERNET changed things...
maybe kids get influenced at the same age today, but just less by family and college...
the family and cultural traditions and lifestyles and physical living conditions seem so different...
yet, I'm not comfortable deciding where people get their world view... where people get their moral compass... where and how behavior and beliefs are formed...
my fear is that we are in less intellectual times... and is the blame to be placed on affluence or technology or what???
in a sense, culture has always been transmitted by the environment of the individual... if so, then as the environment changes, so would the transmission...
:)
and I can kind of see that now...
it is a mish mash of values... when I grew up, everyone got their values from their parents and their churches... but everyone had 2 parents and went to church...
I think I broke away by going to college and reading and being influenced by peers
much later in life...
I don't know how different it is today... do kids become set in their thinking at a younger age... has TV and the INTERNET changed things...
maybe kids get influenced at the same age today, but just less by family and college...
the family and cultural traditions and lifestyles and physical living conditions seem so different...
yet, I'm not comfortable deciding where people get their world view... where people get their moral compass... where and how behavior and beliefs are formed...
my fear is that we are in less intellectual times... and is the blame to be placed on affluence or technology or what???
in a sense, culture has always been transmitted by the environment of the individual... if so, then as the environment changes, so would the transmission...
:)
My Father
my father lived and died well... he was a REAL trooper... he understood... he lived without complaining too much... he was thankful to be alive even tho in pain... AND, when it was too much, he finally died, but was pleasant and cheerful to the very end...
he really really died well without complaining... I wonder if he knows I know that... he never complained... I mean just enough only to tell me how he felt, but he NEVER dwelt on it... NEVER dwelt on negative things... he would think to himself, would I rather be dead, and he would say to himself NO... and he would keep on living... in the end, when his heart was giving out, he didn't complain... he accepted it was time for him to go...
but my father didn't really understand things... I mean he just knew there was life and death... and as painful as life got for him, he would think to himself, I still am more happy being alive than dead... he didn't know why he felt that way, and even tho he claimed to be and acted religiously, believing I assume in the Catholic Church etc... he didn't want to die and go to heaven... he seemed to prefer being here on earth...
I guess it is a real case of nature vs culture... nature told my father to LIVE... culture told my father heaven awaited him... even tho he believed in the culture he was brought up in, the NATURAL instinct to LIVE was with him to the very end...
I just think that is interesting...
he really really died well without complaining... I wonder if he knows I know that... he never complained... I mean just enough only to tell me how he felt, but he NEVER dwelt on it... NEVER dwelt on negative things... he would think to himself, would I rather be dead, and he would say to himself NO... and he would keep on living... in the end, when his heart was giving out, he didn't complain... he accepted it was time for him to go...
but my father didn't really understand things... I mean he just knew there was life and death... and as painful as life got for him, he would think to himself, I still am more happy being alive than dead... he didn't know why he felt that way, and even tho he claimed to be and acted religiously, believing I assume in the Catholic Church etc... he didn't want to die and go to heaven... he seemed to prefer being here on earth...
I guess it is a real case of nature vs culture... nature told my father to LIVE... culture told my father heaven awaited him... even tho he believed in the culture he was brought up in, the NATURAL instinct to LIVE was with him to the very end...
I just think that is interesting...
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