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skipper wrote a new post, Tiny Tidbits 5 years ago
֎ When oldtimers use the stairs, keep a hand floating along the bannister in case that trick knee jumps out or a slipper catches the stair. It is important, though, to use the legs to carry ALL the effort of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, It’s that easy time of night 5 years ago
The title is a quote from long, long ago when the local television station opened its late night movie show. For many viewers it was a successful ploy to sit back, relax, put the day behind them and get comfy – b […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Where is the Road? 5 years ago
It was Robert Frost who wrote the familiar poem about two roads diverging in a yellow wood and at the end of the poem the author is pleased to have taken the road less traveled. Or perhaps Yogi Berra’s version, “ […]
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skipper commented on the post, We are slow Learners 5 years ago
Profound insight about the middle class. Skipper ponders whether today’s form of nationalism will even be around.
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skipper wrote a new post, We are slow Learners 5 years ago
Most everyone (including mariner) points at the pandemic as an expediter, an accelerator of cultural change. Mariner checked out other cultural shifts that have occurred in history; it turns out big-time change […]
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Can’t have a middle class without the printing press. Or, most likely, a Protestant reformation. It takes a while for a disruptive technology’s effects to be felt in a society. Perhaps less so in a late-stage capitalist society, but still, I wonder what the real shakeout of global real-time communication will look like. Computers only really became widespread in the 1970s; sixty years after Gutenberg first pressed parchment Martin Luther’s theses were still a generation away, Shakespeare three.
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Profound insight about the middle class. Skipper ponders whether today’s form of nationalism will even be around.
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skipper wrote a new post, A Tall, Tall Order for Joe 5 years ago
Politico was nice enough to put some effort into analyzing the major issues that will confront Joe Biden whether he wants to deal with them or not. Mariner copied them into this post to give readers a quick […]
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skipper wrote a new post, It’s Time 5 years ago
Regular readers are aware of mariner’s belief that, generally, changes in society reach a moment of significant pressure to change every sixty years. The basic pattern that encourages the sixty year cycle is the g […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Senate 5 years ago
Vox News (reputable) published the results of a study that shows 18 US Senators represent 52 percent of the population. Is it any wonder that as Kentucky goes, so goes the nation? Is it any wonder that, in the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Beyond Covid-19 5 years ago
Similar to its addiction to Donald, the press has been consumed with Covid-19. Not that this is unwarranted but the world continues to live and breathe, to live day-to-day and to place each day into a continuing […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Wisdom in a Phrase 5 years ago
Once in a while everyone stumbles across a short phrase that seems poignant, insightful or profound. Mariner has collected phrases over time that are significant. Just a few below:
֎ A very recent one from the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Ethical Divide 5 years ago
Watching the news today is not pleasant. It is wearing as a virulent war wages across civilization, as political collaboration collapses into populist and plutocratic conflict, as millions of families experience […]
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skipper wrote a new post, On Being a Stick 5 years ago
A stick always has two ends – if it has been broken from its tree. When it is attached to the tree, it is part of a larger presence, something that has evidence of a higher calling as part of nature. It is true t […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Thoughts as the Shelter-in Continues 5 years ago
Mariner is fortunate that for the moment his financial status is sufficient, his curiosity in social studies has not waned and there are more physical chores than may be achievable in the gardens, home repair and […]
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With the stay at home mentality required to guarantee our continued existence, we spent a great deal of time on our screened front porch, watching life in the ‘hood. Now that cold weather has arrived, that time well spent together reading and talking about big things and little things will be sorely missed.
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skipper wrote a new post, Don’t forget to dot the I 5 years ago
Many, many years ago mariner knew a woman who was raised deep in the back country of Tennessee. In her forties, she was not literate. Don’t surmise that she was unintelligent or otherwise had shortcomings; a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Of Politics and Nature 5 years ago
Two topics today. First, Amos offers some observations about the election; second, some observations about the roles of nature on the one hand and mariner on the other.
֎ The campaign between Donald and Joe […]
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skipper wrote a new post, There is no Lee in Today’s World 5 years ago
Mariner hasn’t seen Chicken Little in a while. He doesn’t come out of the henhouse. Inside, he sits trembling and wears a World War I army helmet. By his side are prayer beads, a prayer rug, a few wicks to lig […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Must-have Knowledge for the Twenty-first Century 5 years ago
Mariner hasn’t written a post recently that goes beyond commentary. Today, he feels the need to provide an educational assist that is absolutely critical to the future happiness of human beings. Three recent d […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Money in Political Campaigns 5 years ago
Any individual who has poked even a finger into the current of campaign politics has discovered an inundation of fund-raising emails, letters and phone calls from the NATIONAL COMMITTEE (RNC, DNC) of each party. […]
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When John McCain ran for President in 2000, campaign reform was a predominant plank in his platform. Unfortunately, the Republican party saw that it would put an end to their corporate contributions, so they put their energies and weight behind a candidate who would continue to take money from special interests – George W. Bush.
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skipper wrote a new post, Faith is a necessary life tool for everyone 5 years ago
Read these words from this old hymnbook favorite – sing along if you know the melody:
Life is like a mountain railway
With an engineer that’s brave
We must make this run successful
From the cradle to t […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Humans face Many Problems 5 years ago
In 2015 mariner wrote a post that attempted to distract readers from the campaigns of the last Presidential election. He focused on several natural phenomena that make human problems small and irrelevant. One […]
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