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CLEAN LIVING FOR A QUIET LIFE

Clean living is an art form, and like all art it takes practice.
Yes, we’re talking about practice.
It takes practice to talk without a particular tone, without too much edge.
Do that and you may have a productive conversation.
Go ahead and save the tone and edge for people you don’t know, who don’t know you.
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I READ THE NEWS TODAY OH BOY

The news today is all about world events.
News organizations deliver it every day with the same hype and urgency.
News hounds consume every detail and load it onto the pile they carry in case someone asks them ‘what’s up?’
That’s when you brace yourself for the headlines as if they’re coming from an anchorman. Or woman.
That’s the big news story you NEED to know.
The small news, the stories that make us step back, come out another way.
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PREDICTION BETTING FOR THE CLAIRVOYANTS IN THE CROWD

If you listened to a clairvoyant’s advice watching the 4th game of the NBA Finals last night you would have cleaned up on prediction betting.

 

Clair: Sure they’re twenty-nine points down, but just wait.
You: Yeah, okay swami, I’m turning it off. I can’t take it.
Clair: Don’t do that. You’ll be sorry. What you should do is bump your bet for the big payout.
You: Maybe toss in the pink slip on my car while I’m at it?
Clair: Go all in is all I’m saying. Bet your house.

 

‘Click.’

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“REALLY HIGH” BY KEVIN LOVE

Kevin Love of NBA, UCLA, and Lake Oswego High fame listed a few things he likes to do when he gets high, what he likes to do when he’s really high, adding more for when he’s REALLY high.
The big man is talking about weed, marijuana, dope, ganja, grass, hippie lettuce, herb, pot, Mary Jane.
That’s what he talking about? I think so.
He’s talking about cannabis, the polite word for polite people who get high on the sly.
They like to say, “Cannabis is legal,” and clean, and far from the grubby days of shaking a baggie out on a tilted Cheech and Chong album cover to separate the stems and seeds that you don’t need.
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GIVING GOOD ADVICE, OR . . . ?

Who reads blogs for good advice?
If you do, is there any follow through?
Asking what to do means there might be a problem.
The biggest problem is when you’re the only one who sees the problem.
Then what?
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toughen up

WORK ON HABITS, COMPULSIONS, ADDICTIONS, NOT GOALS?

Work on habits, not goals? What about goal oriented people?   Long term goals don’t happen overnight. You achieve them by doing the little things. For instance, you decide you’d like to run a marathon. Do you find the nearest race with the closest date and just sign up? Some people do, but what would […]

FOODIE vs eFOOD. WHAT TO EXPECT?

Foodie For Thought. You smelled what The ‘foodie’ Rock was cookin’? It was a metaphor, medium rare, foodie. In real life you’ve smelled food before it hits the table. You’ve sat in Portland restaurants watching plates fly by trailing a scent stronger than a pheromone cat collar. The next one’s got to be yours. Or […]

COPING WITH CANCER: EVERYDAY, OR JUST WHEN IT COMES UP

The first thing I read in a cancer waiting room was Coping With Cancer magazine. Articles and essays defined cancer, breaking down a most unimaginable deal to human understanding. The snippet for Coping on google says, “Coping with Cancer. A wide variety of professionals share their knowledge and experience in easy-to-read, relevant articles, and patients, […]

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boomer years

INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN BOOMER

I hear you asking, “What’s a ‘proven’ boomer?” You know what a ‘made man’ is in the Mafia? They’ve taken an assignment from the boss and done good with it. Usually the assignment that makes you a Made Man also makes you a Button Man. You push the button, pull the trigger, you’re a made […]

BOOMER CHALLENGES NEVER STOP

A common theme among Baby Boomers, the 50-68 year olds born between 1946-64? Boomer challenges. As kids we were challenged to make sense of our Depression-era parents. We never will. The magnitude of desperation in the 1930’s is too hard to grasp. How desperate? Jump out the highest window desperate. Shoot yourself in the brain […]

HIKING BABY BOOMER PORTLAND, pt 1

Not one to miss a chance to reflect positively, I strolled Portland’s upper west side from 11th and PSU to the Central Library. It makes sense on the first Tuesday of each month. That’s when Willamette Writers, the largest writing organization in the state, holds its month meeting. I head down early on those days […]

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buckle up

Walking Portland Memory Lane One Alley At A Time

As much as you hear about people moving to Portland, loving Portland once they get here, it’ll never be their home until they’re walking Portland on memory lane.   Like, “This is where I used to play basketball, where I got beat by a five foot six opponent,” didn’t ring up the oooos and ahs […]

King Arthur, The Baby Boomer’s Friend In Need

If reading tales of kings and queens encourage a child’s imagination, dragging them up the treacherous goat trails of Tintagel Castle makes it real. Who does that? Baby Boomers seeking greater cultural meaning. King Arthur is a good one to focus on. You know the story well enough to sound like an authority. Sword in the […]

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SUSHI

When a birthday dinner turns to Shakespeare and Midsummer Night’s sushi. Imagine if you will a birthday dinner, but not just a regular birthday dinner for a regular birthday. Instead, it’s a milestone birthday dinner, a biggie, so you plan and time and schedule and connect. Because it is an older birthday, one idea is […]

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