Manhattan, A Photographer’s Journey by Henry Barnard
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So we’ve had the silly Russian-collusion allegation, the porn star slur, now the trumped up (there, I said it) illegal campaign finance charge — and that for a candidate, get this, who paid for most of his own campaign himself. But I think the anti-Trump lunatics should go all in, and bring up all Trump’s unpaid parking tickets. Certainly that at least must be a reasonable basis for impeachment, is it not!?
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Psst, between you and me,
I pretend the little white butterfly,
It’s really you!
Flutters about me in a protective way,
With the lightest of touch.
I know what it’s trying to say:
I love you still – forever — very much.
I know you cannot hear me true,
But I do too – you — oh so much.
When you arrive in your 70’s and have a few dollars put away, what are you supposed to do with the rest of your life? The obvious answer is dedicate yourself to the welfare of others — your immediate family certainly, but also your community, your state, your country, and humanity at large. Use what resources you have left to benefit others, not just yourself. The old adage is, “You can’t take it with you,” so why not use your assets and the time you have left for the benefit of your fellow man?
In her A Drama of Exile, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, “Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense of service which thou renderest.” One is reminded of the transformation that takes place in the character and personality of Scrooge in Charles Dickins’s A Christmas Carol when Scrooge begins to live for the sake and benefit…
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Manhattan, A Photographer’s Journey by Henry Barnard
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Liberals live in a “what if” world; conservatives in a “what is” one — never shall the two worlds meet.
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Have you ever done something and then subsequently found out it actually had a name? It just happened to me in regard to my diet. You see, I take advantage of an outdoor pool around midday to get in a half hour of swimming laps so that I get the 30-minute aerobic exercise that all the “experts” say keeps you healthy and spry. But it takes me a half hour to walk there and another half hour to walk back to my digs, and I usually take another half hour dawdling around the pool, so in total it puts a pretty big dent, time wise, in the middle of my day.
It occurred to me last summer that with all this activity around noon, it would be pretty easy for me to just skip lunch. It was a good idea since I had put on some weight and the nasty…
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You have heard the awful stories recounted many times. Someone loses control to road rage and shoots and kills another driver or some variation with the same outcome — one man, incensed, murders another, a total stranger, with no reasonable justification.
And our common reaction to this scenario is stark horror that anyone could be so cruel as to willfully murder a perfect stranger that way. But I would submit the murderer is also a victim here. The roads are really a disaster lying in wait for the next impatient driver, and we are all that impatient driver — we are all in a hurry to get where we are going fast, and yet the roads are often filled beyond their capacity, particularly at rush hour. So they are a trap waiting in the wings for all of us — we are all susceptible to being swept away by road rage, this very modern form of demented behavior.
The Roman philosopher and politician Lucius Annaeus Seneca noticed that there was an inordinate amount of anger at the street level in overcrowded Rome. So he pondered to himself the philosophical question, Why are people so damn angry? His answer: They do not anticipate difficulties very well, that is, they assume that doing just about everything will be more or less effortless and without problems, which very clearly is often not the case. Thus the anger.
Fast forward 2,000 years to modern American and its high-speed highways and byways, which are frequently packed with vehicles where slow downs and even total blockages are frequent events. Add to that mix that there are drivers with very different skill levels and that many drive at reckless speeds, with very reckless tactics. Needless to say, such a mixture is loaded with potential problems for virtually everyone who gets behind the wheel.
So a word of advice — road rage is not something that impacts only the mentally unstable. Given just the right set of difficulties and circumstances, it can get under your skin as well because, as Seneca noted, we do not anticipate difficulties very well, and yet our highways and byways are loaded with them, even extremely hazardous ones. If you drive at all, you are not immune to this modern demented behavior, so don’t assume that you are.
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