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LAST POST BEFORE 2023 WRAPS

December 31, 2023 by David Gillaspie

This is my last post? No, not THAT last post, just the last of the year. Has 2023 been good to you, or is it leaving with a Last Post wish? “Eternity Now?” Why not step into 2024 with a moonrise like the one up there ^ ?

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NEW YEARS EARLY PREPPER FOR 2024

December 28, 2023 by David Gillaspie

With New Years Eve pulling up on the calendar, why not a new you in the new year? But I had a good year, you say. Don’t you want an even better year? Of course you do. So ? ? ?

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CHRISTMAS CONTRAST: LONGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR

December 22, 2023 by David Gillaspie

A Christmas contrast happens every year. Whenever some adult says, “I remember when I was a kid. Christmas was different,” is just the start. Different? Compared to what? Was Christmas nicer?

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VOTING AGE FIRST PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

November 30, 2023 by David Gillaspie

I came of voting age just in time to vote for President Carter. Why not have a naval academy graduate in the White House? I was eighteen in 1974, not an election year. That was the year Gerald Ford pardoned former president Nixon.

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ATTENTION ECONOMY PAID IN EXPOSURE . . . TO WHAT

November 19, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The attention economy is an agreement between those seeking, and needing attention, and those who accommodate them. But what about the end-user, the audience, you know, The People I like to call ‘the rest of us?’ We still matter since the ‘I’m paying attention’ economy is based on time, not money. No money for those […]

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ROAD SONGS FROM HERE TO THERE

October 1, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Road songs define generations. Baby boomer road songs? Still the best? Let’s take a drive around the block and find out.

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CHANGING SEASONS = CHANGING CLIMATE?

September 21, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Changing seasons were more of a mystery when human intelligence gathered and agreed that the sun and stars all moved around the earth. Back then we were the center of the universe. Man, those were the good old days. Or were they?

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LOST HIGHWAY? GET A MAP, BOOMER

September 19, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The Lost Highway by Hank Williams is every road ever traveled. Some longer, some shorter, but it’s the same road. You can say you’re not lost. Go ahead. But we’re all old enough to know better.

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HOME COOKING FOR WARM HEARTS

September 18, 2023 by David Gillaspie

“Home cooking is best when . . .” Fill in the blank. Whatever you come up with is fine, but yesterday my group was amazing for many reasons. First:

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USEFUL BOOMERS FOR MATERIAL CULTURE

September 16, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Useful boomers should know things, the sort of things that show a certain level of awareness. Awareness is useful, so is cleanliness. Directing that awareness to history is even more useful. But it can’t be funky history, so let’s start with the basic question: What Happened? People need to know the right stuff.

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