Monthly Archives: June 2022

JUNE 19, SUNDAY

FATHER’S DAY AT THE NEW BELGIUM BREWERY I had a wonderful Father’s Day. Todd and Susie invited me to brunch at Benne’s at the Foundry Hotel on Eagle street where I had crisp pork belly on johnny cakes with a

JUNE 19, SUNDAY

FATHER’S DAY AT THE NEW BELGIUM BREWERY I had a wonderful Father’s Day. Todd and Susie invited me to brunch at Benne’s at the Foundry Hotel on Eagle street where I had crisp pork belly on johnny cakes with a

JUNE 18, SATURDAY

LIVING UNDER AUTHORITARIAN OPPRESSION What is a person to do when the culture or the political system they are born into or chosen to live within becomes oppressive and a threat to your identity? All of my decisions are based

JUNE 18, SATURDAY

LIVING UNDER AUTHORITARIAN OPPRESSION What is a person to do when the culture or the political system they are born into or chosen to live within becomes oppressive and a threat to your identity? All of my decisions are based

JUNE 17, FRIDAY

INTERNET The Internet lets me connect with people that I want to connect with. The Internet will allow me on this Amtrak trip to be connected with people at home through these daily posts and through Facetime video phone calls.

JUNE 17, FRIDAY

INTERNET The Internet lets me connect with people that I want to connect with. The Internet will allow me on this Amtrak trip to be connected with people at home through these daily posts and through Facetime video phone calls.

JUNE 16, THURSDAY

LIVING IN THE FUTURE Much of my life I have lived in the future. I have lived in what could be rather than in the present, what is. I have lived in imagination rather than acuality. And there is good

JUNE 16, THURSDAY

LIVING IN THE FUTURE Much of my life I have lived in the future. I have lived in what could be rather than in the present, what is. I have lived in imagination rather than acuality. And there is good

JUNE 15, WEDNESDAY

MANUAL LABOR I remember long ago, maybe in the 70’s, seeing a billboard in India for a man’s suit, “Ready made for the price of tailor made.” The point was that for no more than the cost of going to

JUNE 15, WEDNESDAY

MANUAL LABOR I remember long ago, maybe in the 70’s, seeing a billboard in India for a man’s suit, “Ready made for the price of tailor made.” The point was that for no more than the cost of going to

JUNE 14, TUESDAY

THE BIG LIE I have written about this before and am sounding like a broken record. But what I have been thinking about with two hearings about the January 6th insurrection having focused on the Big Lie that Donald Trump

JUNE 14, TUESDAY

THE BIG LIE I have written about this before and am sounding like a broken record. But what I have been thinking about with two hearings about the January 6th insurrection having focused on the Big Lie that Donald Trump

JUNE 13, MONDAY

SANCHO PANZA I am going to come down off my Don Quixote hobby horse for a while as I try to deal with the actual world around me. Yesterday I was amazed again by Siri with a delightful Indian accent

JUNE 13, MONDAY

SANCHO PANZA I am going to come down off my Don Quixote hobby horse for a while as I try to deal with the actual world around me. Yesterday I was amazed again by Siri with a delightful Indian accent

JUNE 12, SUNDAY

SERENDIPITY I will give one example of something that can happen on a trip when you are clueless about what is going on but jump right in. It happened in Virampur where my friend Hasmukh Patel has organized a Gandhian

JUNE 12, SUNDAY

SERENDIPITY I will give one example of something that can happen on a trip when you are clueless about what is going on but jump right in. It happened in Virampur where my friend Hasmukh Patel has organized a Gandhian

JUNE 11, FRIDAY

SEARCHING FOR SYMPATHY Sometimes lately I have tried to gain sympathy for my adventures, such my problems with this Amtrak trip that I am about to leave on. My body is aching, I don’t know what I am getting myself

JUNE 11, FRIDAY

SEARCHING FOR SYMPATHY Sometimes lately I have tried to gain sympathy for my adventures, such my problems with this Amtrak trip that I am about to leave on. My body is aching, I don’t know what I am getting myself

JUNE 10, FRIDAY

OLD AGE AND DON QUIXOTE I may have lived partially in imagination all along but now the fantasies and the Don Quixote drive become much more intense. Partly it is because I have moved from the householder stage where I

JUNE 10, FRIDAY

OLD AGE AND DON QUIXOTE I may have lived partially in imagination all along but now the fantasies and the Don Quixote drive become much more intense. Partly it is because I have moved from the householder stage where I