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EARLY TO WORK EVERY DAY

In my field if you’re not early to work, you’re late.
If you’re late you can’t be a blogger?
No, you can be late and blog, late and write, and it’s a good idea to be late.
Being late builds demand. Can’t you feel it?
But not too late.
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WATCHING NEWS, KEEPING CURRENT

We’ve been watching news, keeping an eye on things, staying current.
Nothing gets by us. With a pump in a water-tank, we find the flow.
My school friends and I all believe a water pump in our tank is an essential service.
It’s a big part of what keeps us alive and thriving, that and the support staff.
But not just any support staff. Oh no.
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OFF LIMIT TOPICS FOR DAVIDPDX

Unlike other blogs, Davidpdx has a number of off limit topics, things you won’t find here.
No, it’s not because I’m anti-expression, anti-free speech, or against anyone running their mouth as they see fit.
The online world has too many possibilities, too many AI things, to know the difference between an honest take and a generated take.
I think I can tell the difference between spam and comments, but some topics encourage unusual participation.
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THE LEADING AGE, I MEAN LEADING EDGE

The leading age comes after long years of experience, and putting it into practice for the benefit of others.
The best blacksmith in town learns to pound steel into the correct form and he teaches others the same skill before his elbow sidelines him.
The best woodworker shapes stock into useful pieces and helps others see how it’s done.
They are on the leading edge of their life’s work which will continue through their students when they step aside.
How old are they in their prime, and how old when they retire?
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MUSIC MUSCLE: USE IT OR LOSE IT

Where is the music muscle? In your fingertips? In your ear? In your voice?
No wrong answer here. It’s all three, but there’s still something missing.
Whether it’s ambient noise, sounds, notes, or whether it’s so important you buy tickets and make travel plans, there’s something about music I still don’t get.
On one hand it’s so ignored in an elevator, on the other it’s the primary life force, the driving element, and not just for Dead Heads.
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toughen up

Time And The Baby Boomer Naturopath

Diet And Exercise In The Medicine Cabinet. When eating right and working out hits the news as good medicine you know something happened. Writer Alexandra Sifferlin begins her healthland.time.com article, Just Say No: When It Makes Sense Not to Take Your Medicine, with these words: “It sounds like something a quack would support, but it’s true.”

ELLMAN SURGITRON AND DR. MOLEPDX

    What To Do If You Start Looking Like W.C. Fields? Make an appointment with Dr. MolePDX and the Ellman Surgitron.   Like most baby boomers I see new things when I look in the mirror. Some things are better than others.   One in particular was troublesome.   What do you do when you […]

GUN TALK THE WRONG WAY … AGAIN

Raw Story posted a gun column about white men and guns. It was the sort of gun talk white men with guns shouldn’t identify with. “White men stockpile guns because they’re scared of black people and feel inadequate, science says.” That’s the rawstory title. It’s raw, but even more, it’s lazy, but a site called […]

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boomer years

HIGH GROUND TO VIETNAM VET MEMORIAL: a photo essay

“The high ground is good.” That’s what the old timer said. “And there’s not so many people.” I found him under the Vietnam Veterans of Oregon Memorial bridge, sitting in a lawn chair and handing out pamphlets on Veteran’s Day. Had his car parked on one side of a flowerbed and a walkway without a […]

BOOMER DENIABILITY: WE DIDN’T LIGHT THE FIRE

We Know Where The Matches Are Though. Believable generational research relies on strong academic studies, insurance statistics, and the federal census. This triumvirate of detailed minutia creates a colorless picture of the past. Instead of men in grey flannel suits, it looks like grey men in flannel, lines of them. Baby Boomer research is the […]

IF MILLENNIALS SUCK, WHO ELSE SUCKS

A recent poll questions whether millennials suck as bad as everyone else. Too many times you hear about the new ‘biggest ever’ generation in negative terms. You’d think millennials suck worse than any other generation. Baby boomers enjoy dragging the youngsters around by their arm and reminding them they suck. Millennials seem to enjoy the […]

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HOW TO INTERACT WITH RAJNEESH CULT MEMBERS ON PORTLAND STREETS

    Most days after work in the 80’s I walked the same way to my NW Portland apartment. The path took me past a place called the Martha Washington on SW 11th. I walked the same way so I could talk to an interesting woman from the museum.   Note to remember: All museum […]

Travel Bans From History, Who Should Be Banned

    Travel bans tend to be specific in terms of where to go and where not to go.   Travel bans say one thing: Don’t go there, girlfriend. Stay away, pal.   Like a dress code in the NY disco dancing prime time of the late ’70’s, while punk rock was getting ready to […]

LEARNING TO LEARN PORTLAND BIG AND SMALL

  Life long learners need classes to learn Portland?   A New York man moved to Portland in his fifties. He returns to The City every year to find something new. “Just walk around the financial district in lower Manhattan and you can read the history of the area on the sidewalk,” he said. “I […]

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