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Category Archives: Musings
Last Words; Sabbath Thoughts (Oliver Sacks)
“And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Quotations
Tagged Final Words, Last words of Oliver Sacks, Oliver Sacks, Sabbath, Sabbath memories
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Social Change Diary: Novel Communications Strategies for a Better World
Social Change Diary: Novel Communications Strategies for a Better World On Tuesday, February 20, 2013 at 3:30 PM at the Ford Foundation, I attended a thought-provoking seminar led by MacArthur Foundation “genius” grantee, TED-Talk participant, and Harvard University Professor of … Continue reading
Posted in Cahier/Journal, Musings, Opinion, Prose
Tagged Communications Network, fighting global warming, Ford Foundation, Harvard Professor of Economics, improving healthcare, Macarthur Foundation genius, mobile robot alarm clock, pill bottle with smart cap, poverty alleviation, programmable thermostats, Sendhil Mullainathan, social change, social change marketing, Spitfire Strategies, Ted-Talk participant
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At School Boys Longing Long Gone
At School Boys Longing Long Gone We always hoped the big round gray clock in the front corridor with its black hands would fall to the floor and smash into a million smithereens but no it never did it never … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Prose
Tagged junior high school students, longing, memory, pursuit, school boys, school clocks, school girls, school memories
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An Archaeology of Ideas
An Archeology of Ideas Just before Christmas, some friends and I visited the Brooklyn Museum’s “Egyptian Fragments” exhibit. The one teeny room of stone foots and hands, etc. was underwhelming, but the main Egyptian rooms were fascinating, as always, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptians, archaeology, Atum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Khepri, Ra-Horakhty, word archaeology
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Diplomats & Dragons
Diplomats & Dragons “A sincere diplomat, Stalin once said, “is like dry water or wooden iron.” (from a “Talk of the Town” piece by Lizzie Widdicombe in December 13, 2010 issue of The New Yorker.) While Stalin’s off-hand characterization of … Continue reading
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Tagged diplomacy, diplomats, dragons, Josef Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Lizzie Widdicombe, Stalin's victims, Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, Wickileaks
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