Medium

How do you use social media?

Isn’t it more like anti-social? I stole that from somebody, the «anti» part and couldn’t think of any cleverer.

In truth my relationship to media is more social than not. I use blogs to connect, communicate, commix!

Once I’ve posted my opinions in long form, I use social media to spread the words. What I say here, I «advertise» on LinkedIn, and FB, and often on Bluesky or Substack. So many outlets.

4 D Chess?

In the lobby of the Guggenheim

Another art date with the artist, LisaMaria Maya, has us attacking the spiral path at the Guggenheim Museum of Art.

We’re here for Carol Bove.

We also caught the Rauschenberg exhibit in its last few days.

As a P.S. we crossed over to go to the Reservoir to look for cherry blossoms before heading home.

A rumination

Is it harder when it’s easier?

The fancy word for thought struck me as both pretentious and correct. The right title for an exercise in what if.

The lifeguards at the pool where I take my aquatic exercise programs do not have a stressful watch. They sometimes help lower me in a chair in and out of the water. They sit on the sidelines and rotate positions. It is unlikely that they will be called to rescue a swimmer.

A lifeguard at a turbulent ocean has to be very vigilant.

Lifeguards on beaches where there have been shark sightings might be on edge.

Let’s speculate about the mental health disparities between the gym pool guards and the ones watching for sharks.

Which set of water workers has more stress?

What if the lifeguards at the ocean side got a job at the gym? Wouldn’t they feel stressed by the easier job?

Internship

What job would you do for free?

Retirement puts a different spin on this question.

In retirement, jobs are often done without compensation. We get the title “volunteer” while undertaking such work.

In my retirement, I’m volunteering as an Alzheimer’s support group co- facilitator.

It is actually a job that I would volunteer to do, even if I were not retired.