What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?
Don’t want any tattoo. I would put it nowhere on my body.
I understand that this is not a popular view. In the past 20 to 30 years, the tattoo has become a mainstream decoration.
Once upon a time, wearing one signaled you had been on leave from your ship in a foreign port.
Nowadays, tattoos are as common as if we had all been in the signal corps.
What is one word that describes you?
this blog… The Best.
I am, as are you, the best [make that a capital B] me that I can be.
I am mulling a recent experience with a woman who felt that her 5 hours earning didn’t warrant a three-hour trip to work.
She is right. The time in transit guts deeply into her salary. However, as I recall, the commute can have salutary benefits.
On a train-plane-or-bus you are free to read or watch videos. Entertainment or education can be gleaned from these media. But you knew that.
It’s a time to learn a new language. Acquiring a bunch of different languages is a thing now. Really. Polyglots are said to be smart.
My wife said you work at… that’s at least an hour. My office tried to get us back….
Overheard post-Covid millennials on an elevator ride
Of course, you can use your time wisely to study any subject that interests you.
I am perpetually behind in my reading and sometimes my watching as well. Time to catch up.
What activities do you lose yourself in?
I lose myself in writing. Thoughts and ideas spill unbidden from my mind to my blog.
Once upon a time, I know I would have said from my mind to my pen. These days, there is no pen involved.
I tap out my opinions, my conclusions or my beliefs on a screen no bigger than my handprint.
One sentence leads to another and pretty soon I have formed a post.
It’s all about the packaging for the Altoids. It’s a good product but how it is contained is really its story.
It’s not about the packaging (or is it?) for the former guy.
We have been admonished not to fall into the trap of mimicking TFG tropes like lock her up. *TY Joyce Vance*.
I just can’t help wondering who is going to pay the costs of commuting for his appearances in so many different jurisdictions?
We present ourselves to the world wrapped in fashion. Clothes tell our tale to anyone who will listen. They are the human container.
Translating from literature to produce: Don’t judge the fruit by its wrapper sounds like good advice. Though it perhaps does not make sense.
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?
As Ronnie Cammerari (Nicolas Cage) says to Loretta Castarini Clark (Cher) “playing it safe is the most dangerous thing a woman like you could do.”
John Patrick Shanley Moonstruck
There is a myth among the entrepreneurial classes that you have to fail to be a success.
It’s an interesting theory based on a risk-takers mentality. I was once such a risk-taker. Let’s try it and see how it flies. That must have been what Wilbur and Orville Wright had to say.
Would a flush toilet be considered a modern amenity? A 2400-year-old toilet was excavated in China recently. There is evidence of even earlier such luxuries dating back 4000 years in India.
One woosh and sewage is swooshed away.
The use of tools to gather or hunt may seem like the accomplishment of an advanced society. That makes it all the more interesting that otters use tools to, for instance, crack mollusks.
It’s the diversity of the animal and for that matter the floral and vegetal, kingdom that has me agape. I am wonderstruck by all that the oceans and lands have to offer. Adaptive evolution is a genuinely hard concept.
I may never grasp the full history of earth’s flora and fauna but its tidbits are awe-inspiring.
That history keeps evolving. Just grab snippets from Nat Geo to see new facts about humanity and our cohorts as they emerge. For me, that’s why not being able to sort it all out is a kind of progress.
Today two presidents are in my thoughts. Both represent the good perhaps even best impulses of our country.
Biden’s campaign motto to Build Back Better has been followed by a campaign to restore the nation’s infrastructure.
Today, President Biden joined Ukraine’s President Zelensky in a significant moment of solidarity.
He showed the Ukrainians our support for democracy by showing up in Kyiv this morning.
The other United States President in my thoughts is Jimmy Carter. He’s a gentleman who has literally been building America for some time through Habitat for Humanity.
This year Presidents Day is theirs!
Is it geography or ethnicity or the foods we ate as youngsters that define us? Does our race or the habits of our family make us who we are?
As Americans, we have the propensity to redefine ourselves. This is a good.
The trait that allows us to rise above and beyond our expectations is just that one.
Things, our personal history, the circumstances that surround us, can be changed by perseverance. We can apply will and hope wherever it is needed.
We can find who we are. We are not defined by who you think we are.
That makes us unstoppable.
It’s become a thing to go out in punlic in our p.j.s- not just our sweats.
ET may well have to phone home but only if a UFO hasn’t blocked his signal.
Speaking of UFOs, the “cartoonist” in me envisions this: an alien real estate agent guides a group of alien clients through the earth’s atmosphere. “As you can see it’s a fixer-upper. The last owners really trashed the place.”
It’s World Hippo Day. Congrats to the hippopotamuses out there. Call me on Rhinoceros day (credit: Mr. Ionesco).
All The Best