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skipper wrote a new post, Mother Nature Continued 6 years, 10 months ago
The last post recognized how much and how rapidly change is occurring in our global society. It introduced four key areas that drive society: economics, sociology, religion and psychology. The last post addressed […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Mother Nature 6 years, 11 months ago
No one can deny that the times they are a-changin’. They are changing in every corner of economic, sociologic, religious and psychologic areas. Mariner is a gardener and he relates cultural change in human s […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Just to be Human 6 years, 11 months ago
Mariner and his wife moved to this small town when they retired about ten years ago. Culturally, they were dropped into a foreign country. Fortunately, mariner’s wife grew up in the town and had a sense of the c […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Let it Snow 6 years, 11 months ago
Mariner must mention that he is the recipient of a pass it forward experience. His town received a foot of snow yesterday. This morning, two neighbors knocked on his front door asking if it was okay to clear his […]
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That is a good way to think about snow. It is inconvenient and lasts too long, but it is not a natural disaster. It is a natural wonder! Thank you for a new perspective!
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skipper wrote a new post, Humanism – a Threatened Awareness 6 years, 11 months ago
The last post about not touching each other’s lives is symptomatic of our time. There was a time when a person needed another person to help with life, to generate a sense of wholeness. Granted and without qu […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Touching without Touching 6 years, 11 months ago
Mariner has never done this before but he feels an old post speaks directly to a latent disorder in our time. We as a nation, as a culture, even as a family member, have stopped touching other people – and other p […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Of Tomatoes and Immigration 6 years, 11 months ago
֎It was, if you can believe it, only 11 million years ago that tomatoes split away from peppers, evolutionarily speaking. But now, thanks to gene editing technology, scientists may be able to activate genes a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, (no title) 6 years, 11 months ago
About Pass it Forward
֎In Delano, Minnesota, a black family’s home was broken into in March 2017 and a warning was spray-painted on the walls: “Get out.” The vandals left a note, too: “Next time it’s going to b […]
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skipper wrote a new post, About the Shutdown 6 years, 11 months ago
Mariner had a group meeting with his three alter egos. It seems the group has serious concerns about the shutdown. The US is very much in the roiling currents of change on many fronts including economy, […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Power Corrupts 6 years, 11 months ago
The last post, “The mice warned us,” dealt with the self-destructive nature of overcrowding. Calhoun’s mice experiments showed that unity broke down into have and have not classes, that violence erupted in self- […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The mice warned us 6 years, 11 months ago
The early pioneers in psychology, the standard list around the western world is Pavlov, Skinner, Jung, Maslow, Erickson, Rogers, Freud, and Piaget, focused on an individual’s response to reality. These folks h […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Newsy 6 years, 11 months ago
Mariner often is chastised for persistent negativism. It’s not his fault; it’s Amos’s fault. Today, however, mariner makes an effort to report good news. It is about Newsy broadcasts on 283 DISH.
Regular reade […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Happy New Year 6 years, 11 months ago
A new year is upon us. Mariner wishes the best for mankind and especially for his readers. Today, his town has a bright winter Sun; it is cold and quiet outside. For a moment one can sense fulfillment and […]
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You had me at ‘for a moment.’ It is wonderful that the sun is shining and the mariner is full of goodwill toward mankind and his readers! All best wishes for 2019 to the mariner and all of us on this little blue planet. God bless us, every one!
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skipper wrote a new post, Think Abouts 6 years, 11 months ago
Mariner watched an episode of Christine Amanpour when she interviewed Jon Stewart and Dave Chapelle. Both men are astute observers of human life and social discourse. One comment that stayed with mariner was a […]
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Much to think about! Malls that supported the growth of suburbs are in decline. Public transportation has never served the suburbs very well. Many changes coming. Basic income would be a good one! I read recently that one way to do it is to give a stipend to boost minimum wage levels to a living wage.
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skipper wrote a new post, Current Events 6 years, 11 months ago
In the nation of Norway is an archipelago called Svalbard, the home of the village of Longyearbyen, the northernmost town in the world. Longyearbyen is notable for two things. First, temperatures are below […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Right Spirit 6 years, 12 months ago
A bit of thrust and parry about abolishing the Senate. The idea is emerging in magazines, books and even television commentary. Mariner again will proffer why the Senate distorts public discourse – an example t […]
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skipper wrote a new post, 2018 Observations 6 years, 12 months ago
Speak to a member of Donald’s base and they will say “Donald is doing exactly what we want him to do.” The populist base wanted a grenade thrown at the Establishment. It did explode and has upset the status q […]
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Interesting, insightful and measured. Mariner doesn’t let any us off the hook of taking civic responsibility for the state of our nation. Information literacy needs to be taught along with civics. Perhaps this is a ‘Sputnik’ moment–when the U.S, rallied its schools to teach math and science so that we could keep up with the Russians in space. Now there is another Russian threat to wake us up.
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skipper wrote a new post, Bowling and Politics 7 years ago
In this post mariner promotes two books. The first one is a sociological view of American behavior particularly as it relates to how Americans have changed how they socialize. The second is by a memorable US […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Another Episode of Brain v Gorilla 7 years ago
When mariner moved to his current residence in a small Iowa town, he noticed that many families had leaf blowers. It is also true that town families have affection for any kind of two cycle engine some of which […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Transported Back Through Time 7 years ago
Mariner watched the NetworkKnowledge (PBS) broadcast of Neil Diamond’s concert performed in 2012 at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. Mariner and his wife are big fans back to the time they saw him on te […]
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Even back to the good old days of 2012 is a time warp. We have been travelling at warp speed since 2016–every day a new reason for angst. This essay is a wonderful tribute to the power of Neil Diamond’s music to transport us. Maybe what we all need is more music in our lives–and more poetry, more nature, and more friendship.
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