New Puppy I had this friend once that got a puppy. It was a German shepherd but the puppy was very scared. It was the most scared puppy that I’ve never seen. Most puppies are friendly and playful and whenever they see people they want to run over and play with them but this […]
Flow States and New Instincts
Getting Beat A long time ago I used to play a lot of racquetball. One day I was playing against a friend of mine against whom I usually won. We usually played best-of-seven, first person to win four games. He was winning three games to zero and he was about halfway through the fourth […]
Necessity Of Competition
High School Blunder When I was in high school, about 100 years ago, I ran track and I ran cross-country. I got into the habit of jogging after school a couple days a week and one day I was out jogging and a friend of mine that I worked with saw me. He called […]
Frozen Slices Of Eternity
Art Expo I was out walking around the other day and I passed by a local museum. I’ve seen the local museum quite a bit but they had a sign saying free Expo free admission. I went inside and they were showing a lot of local photographers a lot of local work done by a […]
The Juggler
Stoplight I was driving home from somewhere a few weeks ago I stopped at a stoplight. It was about three in the afternoon. The traffic was fairly light. There was maybe two or three other cars at this intersection. Unexpectedly this guy ran out into the intersection. My first response was he was some […]
Feasts And Famines
Alternative Health There’s been a lot of interesting articles recently in the area of alternative health. Alternative health is kind of a misnomer because once upon a time doctors were these people that knew a lot of information that was useful to become healthy. That was useful to change your behaviors to become healthy. To […]
Cycles Of Corruption
Three Periods Of Japan You can separate Japanese history into roughly three very broad categories. The period before the first military ruler took over all of Japan, the period during that time, and the period after that. The period before that is commonly referred to as the “warring states.” If you’re a fan of […]
Poison Snakes And Unintended Outcomes
Funeral For A Friend I saw friend a couple of days ago and he was just coming back from a funeral. I asked him who died. He told me, and it happened in an accident that was in the news a few weeks ago about a building that had collapsed. When I first saw […]
Preconscious Chaos
Ratio of Known To Unknown There’s this very common idea that every single second we have about one million bits of information hitting our senses but at the same time our conscious minds are only capable of perceiving a very, very tiny fraction of that. There is this metaphorical thing, maybe an actual thing, […]
Meta Levels of Consciousness
Blood Work One of the jobs that blood has as it moves through the body is to deliver oxygen to the cells of the muscles and pick up CO2 and take it to the lungs to exhale. Then when it drops off the CO2 with the lungs to exhale it picks up 02. Then […]
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