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skipper wrote a new post, Continuing Ed 2 years, 8 months ago
Everyone should make a point of continuing to learn new things about life and nature. Like exercises, we do it every day, right? However, mariner offers a few classes below that are interesting.
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skipper wrote a new post, USMC and other acronyms 2 years, 8 months ago
On January 10, 2022. Mariner posted the following:
“Poignantly, mariner misses the word ‘gay’. It was a richly nuanced word that combined the sensation of friendly, entertaining and memorable into a three lette […]
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An afterthought is death by assault rifle. Do you have a bullet-proof vest? You have a beard, you know. Is that socially questionable?
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skipper wrote a new post, Phonemes 2 years, 9 months ago
For most readers, this is a new word. Roughly speaking, it means the set of sounds in a language. We are accustomed to using written letters to organize our language into words, grammar and the expression of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, On living forever 2 years, 9 months ago
Mariner’s wife took him on a Father’s Day trip to the next county, known for its small villages and the fact that there are no stop lights in the entire county. But – they have the largest milkshakes he has ever […]
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Mariner’s wife should add that this question did not come out of nowhere. It was based on the discussion that if we age and die due to shrinking telomeres, it is possible that science will find a way to extend life through manipulation of telomeres. The problem then becomes–if everyone has the opportunity to live almost forever then how do you control the population? Hence the question: would you give up having children if it meant you could live forever? And if you chose to have children, wouldn’t you also have to agree to a shortened life span for them? It gets complicated very quickly! Which leads to the question, would it be better to live in a world without science and just have two ponies and a cart?
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skipper wrote a new post, You know what I mean 2 years, 9 months ago
Mariner is an old codger. The wiring between his brain and his mouth is damaged. Consequently, he cannot recall words, especially nouns and names of things if the mouth is asking for them – the brain knows but w […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Amos and Worster 2 years, 9 months ago
Mariner was questioned “Who is Amos?” referring to the mention of that name in the last post. Mariner apologizes for having an empty page under the Heading ‘About the Author’ which has been blank for several […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The wealth of nature 2 years, 9 months ago
The post heading is the title of a book by Donald Worster.[1] It is about the relationship between humans and the planet. In a sentence in the book, he says, “We are not of this planet.” Nevertheless, Mr. Wor […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Pick your worries 2 years, 9 months ago
There must be dozens of worries from which to choose. Perhaps start with some of the big ones: A failing democracy, the collapse of religion, war with China, Trump becomes President, Social Security gets chopped, […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Update on deals made with environment 2 years, 9 months ago
Last year and early this Spring mariner wrote about some deals he made with indigenous wildlife in his yard. Indigenous means Creeping Charlie and moles, both known as pests.
The deal with Creeping Charlie is […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Dark Side 2 years, 9 months ago
֎ Mariner always suspected there was something wrong about the Holy Bible: A school district in Utah pulled the Bible from the school libraries because it had ‘vulgarity and violence’ in it. That explains why, […]
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Your story on the voters data base “ERIC” was featured tonight on the PBS Newshour.
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We’ve had the “Nextdoor” app, site, whatever ya call it for several years now. It’s a great way to see how uneducated your neighbors are. It’s like the neighborhood Facebook page, which I joined and unjoined in rapid succession. You can’t have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
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skipper wrote a new post, Mother Earth and humans 2 years, 9 months ago
When mariner worked as a project manager, he learned that certain individuals made it difficult to run the project. For many reasons related to power insecurity, bad personality, uncontrolled desire to change […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The worst tragedy 2 years, 9 months ago
To start the subject of the post, here is a cartoon from The Week:
Referencing a recent post, the cowboy culture, one of independent success and individual respect, in their battle against benign neglect by […]
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skipper wrote a new post, It’s the Culture 2 years, 10 months ago
Ever so slowly, thinkers and writers, even in the news industry, have begun to ferret out the real battleground in today’s hectic lifestyle. It is a battle of tradition – the American image that has been bred int […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Maybe tomorrow 2 years, 10 months ago
This Spring, mariner planned to move his vegetable garden to another spot in the backyard. He reasoned that March would have enough good days to build new raised beds and fix several maintenance issues that make […]
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I don’t have a plot to plant in; I wish I had your raised bed maintenance blues. On the upside, there are now five tree beds on my block, though they are “managed” by the local BID Business Improvement District.
Keep gardening Mariner!Raised bed and plotless,
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Horticultural management is strenuous so please stay hydrated and please do not let the grass grow higher than 4 inches.
A friend of mine once suggested that car horns should be manufactured such that no two were the same and any two honked at the same time would create a harmony. Lawnmowers next?
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You’re still mobile. You’re just slower than you used to be. You have some ground to work that some people would die for in the “non-sketchy” neighborhood you live in. I’m the last person anyone would label as Mr. Positivity, but count your blessings. You have “something to get up for”. You may be my very senior brother, but I get it. I used to do physical labor 8-12 hours a day. Now – 6 hours tops. The best part about being retired is YOU”RE WORKING FOR YOURSELF. So cut yourself some slack.
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skipper wrote a new post, Who are you? 2 years, 10 months ago
As we live each day, dealing with the nitty-gritty of each hour and minute, as we get pushed around by schedules and interpersonal dialogue, as we absorb the distractions of the world at large, we lose track of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, This week 2 years, 10 months ago
Here’s the favorite cartoon from The Week magazine:
The daily news is so redundant that any of us could write a broadcast. Perhaps the most important news to come along recently is the growing moral and e […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Words 2 years, 10 months ago
Language is a complex, embedded and demonstrative part of our consciousness. Language tells us who we are, what is important not only as a subject but what is important to our own reality. As an experiment, a set […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A Message for Resistant Conservatives 2 years, 10 months ago
The reader may think immediately of the MAGA folks, their mouthpieces Trump and DeSantis, but there is resistance from the economic side as well if one considers the resistance to going green by the fossil fuel […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Emerging Theocracy – or maybe Nazism? 2 years, 10 months ago
From NPR – the whole article at
is horrifying not just for public libraries but for American democracy as well. One quote to show temperament:
“One of the board members said, ‘Well, what about this book? I […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Family 2 years, 10 months ago
John Della Volpe, of the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, used a term that speaks not only to the youth of American society but to the whole population. He used the phrase, “This is a generation t […]
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An insightful point, Robert. Social media allows us to expand our personal associations. These associations are a benefit as long as they expand the human experience. Alas, to linger on a past conversation point, the Limbic system doesn’t know what’s going on. The compassion and depth of human-to-human bonding doesn’t occur (most of the time).
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