Short essays on a variety of topics including: health, Earth, healthcare, food, science, public health, education, and travel. Some videos too. Videos include film and movies. and, maybe, an occasional book review. There is an "Affirmations Page" in the left-hand column. This may be a place for some discussion of language,
Friday, November 29, 2024
Monday, November 25, 2024
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024
Your Good Eating Could Be Your Best Medication
The Miraculous Healing Power of Food with Anthony Lim
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Monday, September 16, 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Sunday, August 11, 2024
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Friday, August 9, 2024
Sunday, August 4, 2024
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Language Can Be Pleasant Play and Also Lead to the Development of Great Adults.
Do Adults Benefit from a Childlike Use of Language? Children play with language. They can benefit greatly from pleasant talk with an adult.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Monday, May 27, 2024
Friday, May 24, 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Friday, April 5, 2024
Monday, February 19, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Films and Other Videos You Can Enjoy on YOUTUBE
Click on one and be taken to YouTube to see if you like it too.
Cactus Flower A film story.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Unclog Arteries Video In The Heart Naturally: 7 Ways To Clean Your Arteries!
Take care of your heart naturally
7 ways to clean your arteries
Make food your medicine.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Geologic Time: more than dinosaurs and rocks
Let's learn something about geologic time.
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Life Like an Onion
The name of this worth-while, well made Movie is "Hero"
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Writing: First Words
You may be born with a talent. Writing is a skill you can develop
Skills are developed and maintained with practice.
As an aid to improving your writing skills you can keep a free-writing diary as a practice tool. You may also find that it is a great source of writing ideas.
Keep your free-writing in a private diary, journal, or notebook. No one but you need ever read a word you put there. In that private place you can write whatever you want in any way you want to.
"Free-writing" is writing without judgement or criticism. Do no editing, corrections, or rewrites. All there is to it is to do it.
Do not throw away what you have free written. You can use it to discover subjects you can enjoy writing more about.
In your notebook, journal, diary, write. Produce a finished piece of writing. Keep a topic in mind. Digressions are okay, but when you find yourself digressing in this practice bring yourself gently back to the topic.
Digression are to be honored and respected. After all they do come from your beautiful mind.
The idea in this practice is to keep writing. Do not stop writing. Do not stop for anything but the most serious and urgent reason.
You may say to yourself "Let's remember the topic," but do not let a little digression of yours bother you. Gently practice the discipline of keeping the topic in mind as you honor and value your digressions.
It does seem that we writers are very much about digressions. They may lead us to our best writing. Still we do not want them to keep us from finishing a piece of work.
As an aid toward helping myself to finish a piece of work I have told myself to write down everything I can think about the topic at the moment.
Later you can look for your digressions in you work above. Do another writing exercise based on your digressions. Let your digressions enrich your writing. Your digressions may give you topics that motivate the real you.
Peter Elbow's book WRITING WITHOUT TEACHERS has inspired me know that it is truly possible to write better with appropriate practice and Useful attitude.
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Thank you for reading.
Keep writing.
rcs
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Memories of Covid 19
Faith, Governance, This Virus, and Lessons To Be Learned
Poor health is keeping me from posting much these days, but just now I feel stirred to write and publish this post.
The genesis of this stirring seems to start as follows: Yesterday evening I watched a bit of a YouTube video by Richard Wolff. I suspect that I did not even watch it to its end. Last night I had dreams about our wars and dreams about our political beginnings. Vietnam seems to have dominated those about our wars and that dreams of our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
This morning I awoke slowly, feeling weak, fatigued, and exhausted as has been usual in recent weeks. However, I soon remembered something of my dreams and tried to remember more of them with little success. Then I began to recall a bit of the Wolff video to which I had not paid close attention.
It seems from my present perspectives that the video was about Lessons Learned (or learnable) from our Covi experience. I have not tried to revisit that video as I believe I would have in other days; so, some of what I write now may be more Sheehan than Wolff.
As I remember, Mr. Wolff chose the following countries useful for comparing the quality of their dealings with The Virus. The countries he chose as good examples of dealing effectively with Covi: China and New Zealand, Taiwan and South Korea, Cuba and Vietnam. The two countries he chose for dealing poorly with that virus were the United Kingdom and the United States. Wolf, it seemed, felt that he saw evidence that the people of the first six countries also had more faith in their government than the last two I mentioned.
I believe that such comparing of the governance of a people with their ability to deal with This Virus, could aid us in learning an important lesson or two.
Wolf himself seemed to believe that he had evidence that the people of the first six countries demonstrated a belief that their government had the power and ability to deal well with the Virus and so cooperated in that dealing. Wolff also seemed to have thought that the people of The U.K. and The U.S. did not have faith that, at this time, their government was ready, willing, and able to deal with This Virus successfully.
Do you think that our dealing with The Virus has to do with our faith in our government/governance? What do you think we might learn from our experience with the Virus? What is the state of our faith in our government? What would you like the nature of our governance to be? What is our responsibility for the nature of our government? What important governance might we be able to learn? What would be a good simple measure of the quality of our dealing with this Virus? Would the % of deaths or the number of deaths per hundred be a useful measure? What could we learn, that is useful, by looking at more successful dealing with the Virus as compared with the real nature of governance of, say, 100 countries? How might the U.N. be useful in this effort? Why? How might my going back to bed and forgetting about all this be helpful?
My questions above may be taken as rhetorical, but there is a window below called "comments" and sometimes "no comments!" I that window you may put questions of your own, or answer mine, or make comments, or one comment.
Thanks for reading.
RCS