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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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SERVING BITTER TRUTH ON SPECIAL WITH A SIDE OF MOVE ALONG

What’s worse than seeing a big strong man taken down by bitter truth and forced to accept responsibility for their actions?
They say what they need to say, then say it again when more details come out.
And there’s always more details.
I’m left asking why this happens so often? It’s disturbing, disruptive, and ultimately disappointing.
To quote Nancy Kerrigan, “Why, why, why?”
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THE ART OF FRIENDSHIP, OR WHY YOU DON’T HAVE ANY FRIENDS

If you want to experience friendship, have friends, be generous.
Loan money, loan tools, loan your car.
That’s also the way to experience friendlessness when they don’t repay, return, and crash your car.
The other way is spending time together.
My wife says I don’t have any friends because the only people I spend time with are our kids.
And she’s wrong.
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A PORTLAND QUEEN IN KING CITY

This morning found me looking at my back tire the way this guy’s feeling about his tire.
I was probably more surprised since I wasn’t out four wheelin’, just a car sitting in the driveway.
Right away my plans changed from finishing a blog post and moving on, to finishing a blog post and limping down to Les Schwab.
That’s where I met a Portland Queen in King City.
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UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL EMOTIONS BY WEATHER

My California girl wife discovered regional emotions in her business.
With empathy and experience she learned more about people by where they we’re from than where they are.
I helped out with my research, and The Beach Boys.
She grew up in the next town over from them.

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Baby Boomer Women To The Rescue

It sounds like modern medicine is taking a step backward with food and activity. No one suggests blood sucking leaches for health, or eliminating CAT scans or MRI. It’s more about what you do with what you find. Instead of tossing a chemistry lab for new remedies, a couple of doctors with research help are […]

CANCER TREATMENT NEEDS THE ROCKY TALK FROM DR. BALBOA

When you need a pep talk who do you listen too? I go to Rocky Balboa for the good stuff. When he started out with, “Let me tell you something you already know,” he had me hooked. It’s like the doctor telling me I’ve got HPV16 tongue cancer. He had my attention. He told me […]

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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To: COMMANDER, NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS

Baby boomers know how to move on. We’ve seen hippies turn into businessmen, radicals to politicians, yippies into stock brokers. We’ve seen our soldiers come back from Vietnam and work to regain missing years. The following two letters come from an American veteran. He served on the Korean DMZ. Thomas Lucken, like thousands of other […]

MILLENNIALS LIVE WITH PARENTS

Is it a good thing, or failure to launch? Talk to baby boomers and ask when they moved out. You get the same answer most of the time. “Right after high school,” is common. “After college,” is usual. It’s ‘after’ something. After deciding they don’t want any parent telling them what to do? After hearing, […]

A BOOMER FAMILY TREE GROWS CLOSE TO TOWN

 BUT NOT TOO CLOSE. When people say it’s best to live close to the land, what do they mean? Call it the rural side of life. The closer the better. It’s a perspective fewer and fewer are blessed with. Country living shows you the cycles of life, the cycle of many lives, like a live […]

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PORTLAND 1980: HOW TO SETTLE IN A NEW TOWN

    One song stuck with me on the bus ride from NYC to Portland 1980: The second verse of Lodi, by Creedence Clearwater:   I rode in on the Greyhound I’ll be walkin’ out if I go I was just passin’ through Must be seven seven months or more Ran out of time and […]

ROSE FESTIVAL BAR FLY RULES

The Rose Festival Parade Always Starts With The Right Intentions. If the sun’s out on parade day, Portland looks better than ever. Big Pink grows out of yellowed brick if you find the right parking place. The right parking place for Rose Festival is a big deal. Park in the wrong place and you get […]

INSULTING ENVIRONMENT CLOSES ROADS, MINDS

  Keep an open mind to insulting environment. Global warming, from either man-made pollution, or natural cycle of atmospheric anomalies and melting ice-caps, is still about the environment. You can’t hide from that old environment. It’s all over the place; we all share that one. And we’ll share the insulting environment after it changes. Whether […]

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