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Musings on Potential from a Twilight Dog Walk
“You may grow frustrated and depressed, never realizing that the source of it is your alienation from your own creative potential.” ~Robert Greene I came across the above quote online the other day and it resonated with me. I’m not currently feeling frustrated or depressed, but when I think back on times in my life when Continue reading
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Done Done
Every early December and early May, it seems that a smattering of people who know that I teach part time will ask me if I’m done with the semester yet. If they catch me during the period between final exam week and when grades are officially submitted to the registrar, my stock answer is, “Well, Continue reading
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The Winter Beard
There are beards and then there are beards. I’ve regularly worn a beard of the unprepossessing, neatly trimmed variety for the past decade or more. A few months ago, when the weather started getting cold, I decided to grow it out a bit. Why? For the same reason most men do anything with their facial Continue reading
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Situational Philosophy
Nothing to do. Nowhere to go. No one to be. The three previous sentences express a concept I’ve come across in some Buddhist sources. The idea is that we have to free ourselves of thinking that we need to obtain something or become someone beyond the status quo in order to be satisfied. It is Continue reading
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Fading Away
There is a ubiquitous meme floating around social media that makes fun of the ridiculous extent to which characters getting stuck quicksand was used as plot device in old movies and TV shows. Here is one of the many variations: On a similar note, anybody who grew up listening to rock ‘n roll could say Continue reading
About Me
Researcher. Marketer. Teacher. Father of adult children and dogs. 20th Century holdover. Central New York native. Long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan. History nerd. Traveler. Vintage advertising enthusiast. Hat wearer.
a.k.a. V.J. 