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The Discipline
What if we start thinking of our creative process as a spiritual practice?
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23/24
I just finished my 23rd out of 24 books to hit my reading goal for the year 2024. You can catch up with what I’ve been reading on the Bookshelf page of this website. I’ve mentioned it previously, but shelved the book called “S.” by…
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Bird-Brained
Relocating to Florida has introduced me to a wide variety of new sights and sounds. This area is rich with diverse animals and birds from all over the place. Recently I discovered an app from Cornell called “Merlin Bird ID”, that allows you to record…
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Simplicity
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.– J.R.R. Tolkien
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Pentax ME Super
I just received a gift in the form of this fantastic 35mm film camera. I already own its brother, the Pentax K1000, and am familiar with the settings. I’m wondering what differences in the two could be. It came preloaded with film but I’m not…
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Polaris Dawn
After a two hour delay, the Space-X Falcon launched at 5:23am from Kennedy Space Center carrying four civilian crew members into the highest orbit ever. There, they will perform some of the longest EVA tests. Again, as civilians- impressive. With my sleep now ruined, I’ll…
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3,287
That’s how many pages I need to print from 24 years worth of writing on this website. Printing them from the library and over time may be my best bet I think. Let them worry about the paper and ink costs.
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Podcast Page
As a follow-up to my previous post, I realized that my audio file host had removed the embedded code and URL link from my Podcast page here on this site. Not very nice! So I have uploaded the audio files, all 10.5 episodes, back to…
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Season Finale- Radio Denbow
You can catch up on previous episodes on the Podcast page.
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Neuroplasticity
What am I doing? Why did I start an online course when my brain is already overwhelmed with these other self-inflicted endeavors? Fortunately our brains have the ability to change, grow and reorganize its neuron pathways to make new connections and remap from how it…
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Intro To Digital Humanities
Did I just enroll into a distance-learning course from Harvard at the last moment? Verification complete- the course starts today, September 5th. I did the same thing nine years ago when enrolling for courses at Stanford. What have I done? What I always do: I…
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A Look Back
Once again, I find myself working behind the scenes of this website. This time, I am organizing the backend, the stuff that no one else sees. I am also wrapping up the migration of writings from my previous sites into here for posterity. Such as…