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NEW ATTITUDE. WHAT HAPPENED? BARBIE

January 5, 2024 by David Gillaspie

A new attitude comes after a close call: “Damn, we’re in a tight spot.” Or a long developing revelation: “Since systematic scientific assessments began in the 1970s, the influence of human activity on the warming of the climate system has evolved from theory to established fact.” So why not take a look at this new […]

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LAST POST BEFORE 2023 WRAPS

December 31, 2023 by David Gillaspie

This is my last post? No, not THAT last post, just the last of the year. Has 2023 been good to you, or is it leaving with a Last Post wish? “Eternity Now?” Why not step into 2024 with a moonrise like the one up there ^ ?

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IMPORTANT PEOPLE NEED MORE IMPORTANCE

December 26, 2023 by David Gillaspie

You know the important people in your life. How? Because they’re important to you. And you know why they’re important. Maybe you even tell them they are the important people in your life. But maybe you don’t, then what? They’ll tell you.

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CHRISTMAS CONTRAST: LONGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR

December 22, 2023 by David Gillaspie

A Christmas contrast happens every year. Whenever some adult says, “I remember when I was a kid. Christmas was different,” is just the start. Different? Compared to what? Was Christmas nicer?

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HISTORY WORK NEVER ENDS FOR THE CURIOUS

December 8, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Doing history work where you live is the only way to get to your happy place. Or at least you’ll know where you are. The Oregon Historical Society’s downtown Portland history museum is just the place. But first ask yourself, “Am I curious?” If you read boomerpdx regularly, you pass the curious test. Take this […]

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VOTING AGE FIRST PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

November 30, 2023 by David Gillaspie

I came of voting age just in time to vote for President Carter. Why not have a naval academy graduate in the White House? I was eighteen in 1974, not an election year. That was the year Gerald Ford pardoned former president Nixon.

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ATTENTION ECONOMY PAID IN EXPOSURE . . . TO WHAT

November 19, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The attention economy is an agreement between those seeking, and needing attention, and those who accommodate them. But what about the end-user, the audience, you know, The People I like to call ‘the rest of us?’ We still matter since the ‘I’m paying attention’ economy is based on time, not money. No money for those […]

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RELATIONSHIP ABERRATION? WHO IS THE ABERRATION, WHO IS ‘NORMAL’

November 18, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The big question in a relationship aberration is who is who? Who is the aberration for the other, who is the norm. So there I was sitting down to a late lunch with my wife talking about aberrations. I started by using a string as an example. String? Stay with me.

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LOTTERY WINNER: WHAT IF IT WAS YOU, OR ME?

November 15, 2023 by David Gillaspie

I don’t know about you, but if I were to come into $650,000,000.00 I’d have to be as a lottery winner. But that’s just me, a regular guy. I’m a regular guy doing regular things, you know, normal stuff. A self-proclaimed Alpha Male Apex Man? That’s someone else. Now you know I’m not the guy […]

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LONG SLOG BLOG GOES EVEN LONGER

November 14, 2023 by David Gillaspie

A long slog is not a walk in the park. On a sunny day. With friends and plans for more fun. Oh, no, that’s not slogging. This is slogging:

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