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At this time three months ago tonight – December 2, 2018 – this is the first entry in my admissions record at Newton Memorial Hospital. If not for my neighbor who found me unconscious, the Lakeland EMS volunteers who began treatment & rushed me to the hospital, and the talented ER doctors […] Today, I start my 60th trip around the sun, and I’m planning on using the coming year for a ‘mini bucket-list check-down,’ and to escape much of the growing absurdity and insanity that is Internet and American politics. Birthdays offer a time to reflect on the past year, and look ahead to the coming […] [Note: This is a repost of a blog entry from September 11, 2013] Since October of 2001, I have worn this band to honor the memory of Yuji Goya, a 42-year-old Japanese national, husband, father of two, and vice-president of Mizuho Capital Markets Corporation, located on the 80th floor of Two World Trade Center. On […] Fourth of July, 2016. Hudson Farm Community Garden, Andover, NJ. It’s Independence Day, 2016. Let freedom ring. “One of the most famous political speeches on freedom in the twentieth century was delivered by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union message to Congress,” according to the National Endowment for the […] Moon rise over Hudson Farm Westby, Andover, NJ. August 28, 2015. Done Too Soon Jesus Christ, Fanny Brice Wolfie Mozart and Humphrey Bogart And Genghis Khan And on to H. G. Wells Ho Chi Minh, Gunga Din Henry Luce and John Wilkes Booth And Alexanders King and Graham Bell Ramar Krishna, Mama Whistler […] Signing of the Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the […] The People’s House – June 26, 2015 Martin Luther King, Jr. 47 years ago today – on the evening of April 4, 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy addressed a crowd from the back of a pick-up truck at a campaign rally in Indianapolis and announced that Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis. Having little time to […] |