During my winter break from teaching in 2013-2014, I spent a month in Myanmar, also known as Burma. That singular trip was the most transformative experience in all my years of overseas travel. While I gained greatly from my trip to Myanmar, it created a long series of haunting questions for me throughout 2014.
The haunting began while in Myanmar. However, I was able to avoid addressing it due to traveling all over the country, visiting pagodas, and talking with the locals. When I came back to the States, I had to address that first question. Interestingly, I had an appointment with Dr. Marchand, my cardiologist, for a routine heart checkup. My heart was fine, but I was wired. However, I asked him the first haunting question. Why was I so driven and engaged? His response was both simple and profound. I had seen the light.
Talk about a cathartic experience. I left Dr. Marchand's office renewed and empowered...until several weeks later when I heard another haunting question. This time the question was about the light that I had seen. What was the light to show me?
A friend of mine had given me a link to the commencement address that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford in 2005. I watched that address and wrote an article about it several years ago. I understood about connecting the dots. However, while having lunch with that friend early in 2014, I talked about another haunting question. I could not explain why going to the protest rally at Sule Pagoda caused me to see the light. As I addressed that lurking question, I started to put the dots together. My experiences in Myanmar related directly to my experiences during the civil right movement in the 60s. Again, another catharsis. I understood Myanmar but also a raft of other dots started to connect.
I felt both relief and freedom. I was happy and understood my life. Nonetheless, another haunting question soon arrived. This question came via the singing of Pete Seeger and the writing of Saul Alinsky. There is in life often a tension between the darkness and the dawn, which the singer and reformer expressed. Alinsky wrote, "We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it." That insight carried me for another month or so.
Alas, another haunting question. I did not understand the moments of soaring when events occurred, which were followed by the question why. I would attempt to resolve a question and agonize over it until it was resolved. That would produce a respite for me until another question begged an answer. The entire year was a sequence of questions with a month of pondering before gaining understanding.
The sequencing between the good times and the bad times allowed me to accept and comprehend much of 2014. As suddenly as Dr. Marchand said that I had seen the light a year ago, I saw it again thanks to Charles Dickens' opening sentence from A Tale of Two Cities, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....":
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The Weaker Sex Will Soon Be the Dominant Sex | 07/11/18 |
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Teach Your Children Well Lasko and Trump They are Coming To Get You…. | 06/22/18 |
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Ti Ti, Snow, and Fatty Having Fun Without PaPa Al | 06/20/18 |
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Pa Lian Burmese Restaurant A Place Where I Learned a History Lesson | 06/18/18 |
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Clarity About Dancing Being Arthur Murray in the Real World | 06/11/18 |
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Ti Ti and Her Family My Assistants in Myanmar | 05/28/18 |
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Explaining Doing the Dance… Man, the Lights Are Bright | 05/23/18 |
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Who Are Your Mentors? Here Are Mine | 05/21/18 |
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758 Horns of a Dilemma The House of Cards | 05/16/18 |
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Forrester and Jamal You and I | 05/11/18 |
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Projection Lock Him Up | 05/07/18 |
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Ginger is One and a Half Years Old… But What an Eighteen Months | 05/04/18 |
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Henny Penny Cries Out… “The Sky Is Falling.” | 05/02/18 |
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Dear PaPa Al..... Dear Ti Ti | 04/16/18 |
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Frederick Douglass A Better Man Than I | 04/13/18 |
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Sherlock Holmes In Washington While We Drank Ginger Grog | 04/04/18 |
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Pictures from My Myanmar Family Pictures…Part II | 03/23/18 |
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My Heart Issues—Part II The One That’s Pumping Blood | 03/14/18 |
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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death The Times They Are Changin’ | 03/07/18 |
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What Would You Attempt To Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail? | 02/21/18 |
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An Emerging Nation On Its Way to a Developed Nation | 02/19/18 |
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An Age of Revolution If We But Know What To Do With It | 02/16/18 |
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My Heart Issues Both Hearts | 02/14/18 |
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The Widow’s Mite And the Rich Donald the Dumb | 02/09/18 |
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The Water Horse of Loch Ness And Our Water Horses of Life | 02/07/18 |
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A Shopping Spree With My Three Granddaughters | 02/02/18 |
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Moh Moh, Tin Tin, and Me We Are the Incarnations of Bobby | 01/31/18 |
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Lesson Learned About Dreaming I Learned from Bobby | 01/22/18 |
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We Are Family Versus Racism | 01/19/18 |
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Bobby the Runt Turned into Bobby the Leader | 01/17/18 |
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Another Breakfast with My Shrink Dealing with Dreaming | 01/01/18 |
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Basil Rathbone, the Actor But Much More | 12/29/17 |
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Dreaming Dreams that Never Were... Asking Why Not. | 12/15/17 |
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Doing the Dance... Fathoming the Unfathomable | 12/11/17 |
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Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain While Plowing | 12/08/17 |
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The Life and Times of a Femme Fatale Mata Hari | 12/06/17 |
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Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock... Remember the Past or Repeat It. | 11/29/17 |
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The Big Fib: "I'm, like, a really smart person." | 11/27/17 |
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Why Ginger? The Hauntings of My Pooh Dog | 11/24/17 |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon Watson and Ginger’s Roles | 11/22/17 |
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Lincoln's Gettysburg Address... Then and Now | 11/20/17 |
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The Tattoo of My Pooh and Me Ginger and Don Quixote | 11/10/17 |
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The Reason Behind... Everything | 11/08/17 |
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The Jim Crow Laws... Went Beyond Our Borders | 11/06/17 |
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What I Owe Ashley and Michael Wall Removal | 10/11/17 |
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Ginger and Santayana Remember the Past | 10/09/17 |
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Lawrence of Arabia One of My Mentors | 10/06/17 |
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The Double-Axe A Symbol of My Identity | 09/15/17 |
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When Dreams Aren’t Realized What Should You Do? | 09/01/17 |
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Essay with No Words But Look At My Eyes | 08/21/17 |
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“Better Angels of Our Nature” In America, Mexico, and Burma | 08/19/17 |
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Clarence Page and Donald the Dumb— The President of Trump University | 08/18/17 |
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Draining the Swamp... And Adding to the Swamp | 08/14/17 |
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To Attach or Not to Attach That Is the Question | 08/11/17 |
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Ti Ti and I A Most Haunting Relationship | 08/04/17 |
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Macbeth... Guilt Spills Itself for Fear of Being Spilt | 08/02/17 |
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The Pentagon Papers... Then and Now | 07/31/17 |
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USS Indianapolis and Connecting the Dots Quint, Jack, and Owen | 07/26/17 |
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Oppie The Scientist and the Philosopher | 07/17/17 |
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What Did I Learn... From Vinegar Joe | 07/05/17 |
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Impeachment of Trump And the Tower of Babel | 06/30/17 |
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The Ides of June And Religious Ties | 06/14/17 |
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“Grace Under Pressure” The Way to be a Leader | 06/12/17 |
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Breaking News from Ginger About Trump Colluding with the Russians and Putin | 06/02/17 |
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HMS Terror, HMS Erebus, Global Warming… Or Nonsense from Those Godless Chinese Communists | 05/26/17 |
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Bridge Builder or Wall Builder A Clear Choice for Donald the Dumb | 05/22/17 |
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Class, Easter Ham, and Kayaking... The Morphing of My World | 05/15/17 |
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Do Not Going Gently Into That Good Night I Will Rage | 05/05/17 |
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Brexit vs Scoxit The Death Blow to the British Empire | 05/01/17 |
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To Become… What You Might Have Been | 04/28/17 |
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Getting It Together… An Avenue to Acquiring Dreams | 04/26/17 |
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The Meaning of Life It Is All About Fighting the Good Fight for Others | 04/19/17 |
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Life Is a Bowl of Cherries Or the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men | 04/14/17 |
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The Efforts of the Lady vs. The Efforts of Donald the Dumb | 04/12/17 |
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The Amazing Process Called Learning Thinking Outside the Box | 04/05/17 |
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Chick Magnet And the Hauntings | 03/31/17 |
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The Hauntings About Bobby and the Gingers | 03/27/17 |
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On Riding to Samara Then and Now.... | 03/10/17 |
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Invictus Thank You, Mrs. Davis | 03/06/17 |
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What Donald the Dumb is Missing in Life? Eppie | 03/01/17 |
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Robert the Bruce I'll Drink to Him! | 02/17/17 |
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Icarus and the Donald Warning About Flying Too High | 02/03/17 |
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The Meaning of Ginger The Winter Solstice | 02/01/17 |
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How Will I Live to My 100th Birthday? Answer: Ikigai | 01/20/17 |
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We Don't Have a Democracy... Yet Either | 01/06/17 |
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A Lesson of Life Learned from a Cockroach | 01/04/17 |
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The Great Value of the Philosophers' Stone... To Me | 12/21/16 |
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Accomplishing Things in Life... Even Long Shots | 12/16/16 |
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Coping with Butterflies Getting Organized | 12/07/16 |
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Only Those Who Dare to Fail... Can Achieve | 12/05/16 |
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Moh Moh's Email Big Dreams Never Run Smooth | 12/02/16 |
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Ivan the Thankful And It Wasn't for a Turkey and All the Trimmings | 11/24/16 |
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The Lady And the Peacock | 11/04/16 |
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What a Difference a Few Years Makes If You Are Joisting with Windmills | 10/10/16 |
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The Meaning Behind the Man The Man of La Mancha | 08/29/16 |
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Listening to My Mentors And Dreaming Impossible Dreams | 08/19/16 |
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The Terrorism Trifecta Three More Dances with Death | 08/12/16 |
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The Kiss From Life to Death | 08/08/16 |
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Bobby Kennedy Still Reaches Out to Us. | 07/29/16 |
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Prediction of Clinton's Running Mate And Her Running Mate Is.... | 07/08/16 |
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Bloody Hands and No Backbone What a Legacy | 06/20/16 |
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The Angel Spoke... And I Listened. | 06/10/16 |
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The Thinkers Three Jack, Owen, and Me | 06/06/16 |
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Master Kong Said... Don't Remember Being Wronged | 05/16/16 |
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Mr. Turner The Dualism of Feelings | 05/06/16 |
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An Anniversary Has Arrived.... The Fifth Anniversary. | 05/02/16 |
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Morphing of the Flu with Polio A Strange Juxtaposition | 04/29/16 |
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I am Don Quixote But I Am Not from La Mancha | 04/15/16 |
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Christopher Reeve Another Dancer Who Could Also Fly | 04/08/16 |
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Learning from My Mentor A Knight-Errant On His Deathbed | 03/28/16 |
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I Want to Have Dinner for Two A Date and Someone Who Has Done the Dance | 03/23/16 |
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On Seeing the Light Chuck, Paul, and Me | 03/04/16 |
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Two Roads in the Wood Choose Wisely | 02/26/16 |
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The Art of Beating the Grim Reaper Follow Randy Pausch's Example | 02/24/16 |
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Grave or No Grave That is the Question | 02/22/16 |
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Best of Times, Worst of Times It Is Your Choice; Choose Wisely | 02/19/16 |
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I Am Looking for Another Dancer The Ultimate Partner | 02/17/16 |
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Buddha's Strange Parable... Which We Need to Understand | 02/15/16 |
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The Value of Dreaming About My List of Dulcineas | 02/12/16 |
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Somewhere in Time The Importance of Memories | 02/04/16 |
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The Drinkable Book I Wish I Had One While in Indochina | 02/03/16 |
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Another Dancer David Hume | 02/01/16 |
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Dreams will come to you.... If You Are True to Your Quest | 01/22/16 |
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Miguel Cervantes As Don Quixote | 01/18/16 |
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"I'm Dying, and I'm Having Fun." Randy Pausch is Correct | 01/15/16 |
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The Little Match Girl And The Golden Statue | 01/11/16 |
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The Very Strange Year of 2008 A Year to Remember | 01/08/16 |
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The Gift of an Angel It is More About My Feelings | 01/06/16 |
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Don Quixote and Confucius Told Me To Get Off My Arse | 12/18/15 |
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Going to Hell in a Handbasket And the Tibetan Mask | 12/14/15 |
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Doing the Dance Again How to Address Both New Dances | 12/11/15 |
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I Know Who I Am... And Have Found Two People Who Understand Me | 12/04/15 |
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Take Your Passion and Make It Happen Flashdance Follow-up | 11/27/15 |
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Responses to Paris Both Are Vital | 11/25/15 |
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Want to See What I'm Wearing for Halloween? A Profound Question | 11/16/15 |
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Pandora Provides Hope... Don Quixote Provides Determination | 11/09/15 |
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The Campbell Cookie Jar The Tie In Between the Past and the Present | 10/28/15 |
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Doubling Down... To Make Dreams Come True | 10/19/15 |
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The Old Pine Table An Object of Renewal and Rebirth | 10/14/15 |
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It's Confession Time... And It Isn't Sunday | 10/09/15 |
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The Mahogany Bench A Place for Dreaming.... | 10/07/15 |
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The Little Wooden Box An Updated Pandora's Box | 09/30/15 |
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A Great Dancer with Death A Sobering Experience | 09/21/15 |
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Putting the Pieces Together The Joy of Coming of Age | 09/18/15 |
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The Tulip Pitcher A Picture of Springtime | 09/16/15 |
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Songs Can Make the World Go Around... Peacefully. | 09/11/15 |
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The Felt Picture A Picture of Hopefulness | 09/09/15 |
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A Second Look at Life Toward the End of Life | 09/07/15 |
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Agnes Majors in the Minors A Big Fish in a Drying Up Small Pond | 09/04/15 |
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The Desire to Ding the Universe But Why? | 08/28/15 |
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From Whence Does the Spark Come? The Creative Act of Pondering | 08/24/15 |
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The Value of Pain Or How to Retrieve the Torpedo | 08/21/15 |
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Riders on the Streetcar Named Desire: Elizabeth and Rosa | 08/03/15 |
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Strange Tale | 07/31/15 |
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Dinner with GiGi The Socratic Method of an Older Woman | 07/17/15 |
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Alan Seeger And His Dance with Death | 07/04/15 |
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What I Learned About Life... From Facing Down the Dragon | 06/29/15 |
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Career Opportunity... Being a Gladiator | 06/19/15 |
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What a Wonderful World You Think to Yourself.... | 06/15/15 |
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The Benefit of Problems Or the Only Means to Success | 06/08/15 |
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Milky Way and Andromeda's Dance with Death Parallels Our Dances with Death | 06/03/15 |
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Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut's Dance with Death | 06/01/15 |
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Dancing with Death Allows You to Live | 05/22/15 |
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It Has Been Seven Years Since I Fell... And Cracked My Head | 05/18/15 |
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Steve Jobs and Charles Dickens How to Avoid the Ghosts | 05/08/15 |
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Nepal Then And Now | 05/03/15 |
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"We Get Old Too Soon... And Wise Too Late" | 04/27/15 |
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Fertilizing Daffodils But in the Meantime.... | 04/24/15 |
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How Do We Learn? The Lessons in Learning | 04/13/15 |
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Ode to Joy In the Midst of Pain | 03/27/15 |
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Think about the Legacy that You Leave Will Your Relatives Be Proud of You? | 03/19/15 |
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Reliving Many Bloody Sundays Rebirth of the Civil Rights Movement | 03/07/15 |
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"All Mankind is Divided Into Three Classes..." Some Aren't Buried Until They Are Seventy-five | 02/23/15 |
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Obama's Golden Opportunity On Leaving a Legacy | 02/13/15 |
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Man in the Arena "If He Fails, At Least Fails While Daring Greatly" | 01/23/15 |
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The Most Dangerous Woman in America Mother Jones and Her Boys | 01/16/15 |
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Suffering Yields Success Worrying Yields Warts | 01/14/14 |
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"Every Child is an Artist." The Question is What Remains in Adulthood? | 01/12/15 |
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Ozone to Ferguson A Journey That Never Seems To End | 01/05/15 |