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EMOTIONAL CALLOUSES GROW WITH LIVING LIFE?

October 8, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Emotional callouses are one way of navigating difficult times. The problems start after difficult times pass. Should you rip the callouses off like an old bandaid, or let it ride? Before you decides, review those hards times so you know the possibility of them returning.

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AMERICAN IDENTITY IS NO SURPRISE

August 24, 2024 by David Gillaspie

An American identity is more than a passport, drivers license, or birth place. It’s more than bragging rights and USA USA USA. What is it? Here’s one take on what it is:

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EXERCISING RIGHTS FOR BETTER LIVING

June 12, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Exercising rights are a mental thing; also a physical thing. The mental part is realizing the benefits of the physical thing. How often has someone doubted the benefits of either? When they do cast doubt, they do it from a couch eating bonbons.

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WELLNESS BLOG vs BLOG WELLNESS

December 15, 2023 by David Gillaspie

A ‘wellness blog’ does what it says: promote health and wellness to an audience who ignores their own health and wellness. If you’re reading a blog for ‘wellness,’ if you’re doing your own ‘research,’ be sure better ideas come from credible sources. Taking medical advice, or simple health advice, from a moron is not the […]

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HUSBAND GOALS, FATHER GOALS 2023

November 2, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Husband goals? First, get married. Father goals? Then have kids. But what’s next? Let’s start with husband goals.

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LIFE GOALS: CLIMB THE LADDER, WANDER AROUND, OR BOTH

August 20, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Life goals bring everything into focus the way the right rug ties a room together. It starts with a list of things to accomplish by a certain year and an ambitious plan for doing it. There’s the calendar with each day, week, month, year, with room to pencil in your progress. And you are progressing, […]

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LIFE GOALS: BOOMERS FROM 58 TO 68

June 12, 2023 by David Gillaspie

My life goals are simple. Like Marcus Aurelius, I believe the object of life is very clear: Stay off the lunatic fringe. And?

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BOOMER MEDICINE: THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE?

June 4, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Boomer medicine comes in the same variety as everyone else’s: What works. And what doesn’t work. But for boomers there’s an extra additive.

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SETTING GOALS IN TIME, NEW GOALS

December 22, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Setting goals is more a lifestyle than anything. We want more, we want less, we want what we don’t have. What’s the one thing you never have enough of? Time. But, you can make time.

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LIVING LIFE TO DIE? THANKS RILKE

November 20, 2022 by David Gillaspie

This is the guy living life past my bathroom window in Cannon Beach, Oregon. A man playing slide guitar in a slick suit felt like a Coen brothers break from reality. Since I like listening to slide guitar, I also saw him as an omen for good things in the future. That’s how that works. […]

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