Tonight when I tried posted the link to my “three red hens” blog post to my page on Facebook, I got this response: “Posts that look like spam according to our Community Guidelines are blocked on Facebook and can’t be edited.” Friends on Facebook have opted in to hear from me. What I […]
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Red chickens can be clueless, as I discovered tonight just as the sun was setting. I had to rescue three of them from the goat pasture. Now, to be fair, I have only started letting all the hens out of their hen pasture during the day recently (after they’ve laid their eggs every
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I had a lucid dream about fearmongering last night and boy howdy, did I ever get riled up! Obama and Trump were in it. I loved the Obama part! The Trump part, I sorta liked, too, because I got the better of him in it. In the dream, I was at
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I am 98% finished with reconfiguring my office space. It feels better in here already. What a huge difference it makes to have a blue background behind the monitor instead of the brooding brown background that blocked my view of the blue walls. BEFORE: AFTER The little “angel doll” beside the desk is
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An article in the 2/23/24 issue of Business Marketing Smart Brief states: “The use of AI in creative work can never replace the fearlessness, humor, and silliness necessary to connect with audiences on a human level. The best advertising is able to tap into the human experience, something AI by nature cannot do.”
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I have a friend right now who is going through some stuff. It’s very familiar stuff to me, so I saw it coming in her case, but was helpless to prevent it because it was already in process before I knew it even existed as a possibility. My friend is a giver. She is
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Next week I will have a reconfigured workspace. I’m itching to make it happen and cannot wait, but I have to because the new elements won’t be here until then. The upper part of my work desk (first image below) will go across the den to the top of my bookcase (second image below) where
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It’s hard to retain optimism. I read a lot of history books (am I a masochist?) so it has become obvious to me that we have been going backward as a genuine civil-ization for quite a while. I’ve just finished reading A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD by Chris Harman (a companion book
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Owner and Editor in Chief Angela Jossy interviewed me last week for THE WEEKLY VOLCANO newsletter, which went live on Friday. Here’s the link: https://weekly-volcano.com/110323-newsletter-3?fbclid=IwAR2-bwoEe9hBzIUxEQNLPM-zcDLNP5MZSQs4UMCckwRONOer-jZcOY11obc ENJOY! Those of you who have been following me for years already know just about everything (if not everything) that’s in it but locally I’m not well known because I’m
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I’m getting my driver license renewed tomorrow because two days after the present one expires, I will be on a plane heading for New Zealand and I don’t want to risk getting it just days before my birthday in case something goes haywire during the renewal process. So what if it’s four months early?