Monthly Archives: June 2012

Foggy notion…

One of my favorite things about the San Francisco Bay Area is the fog. You can look at the view of the city from any angle on any day or night of any year, and you never see the same … Continue reading

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My electronic and spiritual disconnection…

Or; When I talk to the sky, no one answers… I didn’t do a very good job of explaining how I ended up back in the San Francisco Bay Area so soon after my last visit. I mentioned the youth … Continue reading

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Words are funny…

My posts about how we use words to reach out to each other, to connect with each other, got me to thinking about words. Words are strange, magical little creatures. They have meaning. They are powerful. If I type the … Continue reading

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Thank you for not panicking…

I know, I have been away for a couple of days. That is because I am back at my mom’s house in the Bay Area. This time I am armed… with my new Father’s Day camera. I have already enlisted … Continue reading

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You know what I am proud of?

I am proud of the fact that I have never started off a post with any variant of the words; I don’t really have much to say… Whenever I am scrolling down the WordPress blog rolls of  ‘humor, ‘writing’, or ‘art’, as … Continue reading

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What are we doing here?… Part 3

We are all reaching out! That is what we are doing here. We are looking for contact, for connection. We hunger to be acknowledged. We thirst to be recognized. To be approved of. We want to be liked. After all, they … Continue reading

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What are we doing here?… Part 2

Language evolved until we were able to express complex ideas. But what is behind our need to share these ideas? What drives us to communicate with our fellow travelers on life’s journey? We do not blog for riches or to … Continue reading

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What are we doing here?

Why are we clattering away at these plastic keys, reaching out to people whom we have never met, and in all probability never will meet? Why are vast multitudes of intelligent beings spending precious hours of their short lives trying … Continue reading

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Okay, now I am done…

I know, I know, this is an obscene amount of posts for one day, but they are all tied together, so cut me some slack. I did have one night out with the boys from back in the day, while … Continue reading

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Nope, still not done… but I do feel bad about the number of posts…

On our little adventure in the Bay Area, Mollie and I ended up at one of my favorite places in the world… High up in the Berkeley hills, above the U.C. Berkeley campus, their is a road called Grizzly Peak … Continue reading

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