LA’Blog
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“Assume Positive Intent”
I spent yesterday reading newspaper articles from nearly one-hundred years ago. Looking at photos. Their subject is Dr. Henry Waldo Coe, longtime citizen, entrepreneur and subsequently, wealthy admirer of Portland, Oregon, where he lived and had a medical practice.Dr. Coe was born in Waupon, Wisconsin in 1857, and buried in Portland on Feb 21, 1927,…
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Listening
Podcasts are my dream come true. One’s own personal radio station! That hypnotizing buzz of charged air around the microphone; that ability to weave a world for a listener. It’s not quite the immediacy of the guy who’d call my 1980’s FM rock show every week to request AC/DC’s “Back in Black” – but ya…
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School
When I was in Elementary school, the biggest concern our teachers had was that we were “sneaking” cinnamon toothpicks into class. The cinnamon oil was bought from the pharmacist at the drug store – a tiny, flat-sided bottle with an even smaller mouth. We’d jam in a dozen or so beige wooden toothpicks and leave…
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War
When guns move inside a school’s ranks, and the taxpayer-armed militia abet the crime – preventing parents from aiding their children being murdered in cold blood – how do we defend ourselves? America’s unvarnished history kept from my schoolbooks, is one of constantly waging war. We don’t drag home loot from other countries to display…
Got any book recommendations?
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