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New Year’s Day 25: To Maintain Intentions and Tweak Goals
As of Dec 29th the year not yet finished and my 2025 aspirations were not yet begun. I don’t make New Years resolutions. The fact that, according to Pew Research, maybe 10% of adults follow through on resolutions dissuades me from using that word. I have strategic goals and intentions. The reality that adults who…
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Ten Years after the film “20 Feet from Stardom” Came Out, some Adults Picture Themselves as “20 Feet from Stardom”
The 2013 documentary “20 Feet from Stardom,” which is about Pop, R & B, and Rock back-up singers, works still. This splendid and moving film, which won Best Documentary Feature for 2013, focuses mostly on the Black-American singers circa 1950s through 2000s. It resonated beyond the realm of music. In the decade since that evocative…
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At Thanksgiving, To Choose to be Grateful for What I Have, even If…
Thanksgiving in the United States has just passed. As an American, I am used to taking things, innate assets or circumstances for-granted. As difficult or stressful as adult life is, gratitude is vital. To choose to be grateful is in the United States difficult and awkward! To that end, when I see a disabled or…
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In Re-Electing Trump, Have We Worse than Machiavelii’s “The Prince” as POTUS?
About Harris’ loss to Trump on Nov. 5th, I’d shakily chosen to be optimistic. Vice Pres. Harris declared “I know I’m gonna win. But it’s gonna be close”! This suited me. To ponder during the campaigns the terror, wrath and anxiety of Trump returning to the White House, being that he is vice-ridden, giddily ignorant…
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Fans Gather at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Uptown to Listen to Authors, Photographers of “Prince: Icon”.
On Tuesday October 22, Twin Cities fans of global music, and cultural icon, Prince, met at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in the Uptown area of Minneapolis. They gathered in order to hear from the authors and independent photographers whose works were compiled in the book “Prince Icon.” The event space, which Magers & Quinn improvises…
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Fear of an Empty Page Amid Abundant Headlines and Opinions
To maintain an artistic writing habit is a priority. According to Today.com, October 8 was National Face Your Fears Day. It’s difficult to identify weekly essay subjects when neither life experiences, headlines nor monthly observances, e.g. National ____ Day, provide great premises. I live a calm, routinized life, living less dramatically than a legion of…
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Black Male Actors Inform One Black Man on National Psychotherapy Day…
If the safety dogma from Covid from 2020 through 2021 helped anyone, then the lockdowns made clear that many Americans suffered from mental illnesses. Either they contended with anxiety or depression, if not both. The symptoms and stressors convinced many of them there was a problem, be open about it, and ti seek help. Sept…
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Emmys for FX’s “Shogun” Opens U.S.’s Eyes to Japan
During the winter, something about the promos for “Shogun” on Hulu convinced me to create an account so I could check it out. I faintly remember the 1980 mini-series “Shogun”; I was a school boy then. I’ve been curious about the simpleness of Samurai (bushido) culture, stoicism, and Japan’s different take on being a warrior.…
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I wonder: How do Speechwriters Help V.P. Harris to Prepare to Debate Trump?
Vice President Harris met Mr. Trump on Tuesday for the first debate. Being a word and speech nerd, the debate with him made me wonder how the speechwriters serve or help her in the preparation. I know that some days afterward, I am late too opine on or observe VP Harris’ debate performance. Nonetheless, I…
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How strange is it for driven adults to choose to improve themselves in Jan, then renege on this weeks later?
So. If that absurdity is too much, then how strange is it to note when, eight months later, a famous stranger nudges you to return to the goals, which you’d lost track of. In mid- or late-August, as youngsters are reminded to come Back-to-School, few adults wonder “what or how well did I act on…
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