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PASSING TIME Passing time is a strange expression. Passing does not imply using or wasting time. Nor does it mean that we somehow move ahead of time itself. When we come across the word, we most often think of hobbies. This comes closer to how we use time that is dedicated to doing something thatContinue reading “Friday, 4 March 2022”

WORDS These days we have heard a lot about words. Most recently, an important story about words concerned a priest who baptized with the formulary, “We baptize…” instead of “I baptize…” In saying ‘we’ there was an error in judgment, which in turn caused an error in intention…if I am understanding the issue correctly. Now,Continue reading “Monday, 21 February 2022”

HOBBIES: PLANE SPOTTING Today, I am beginning another subject which will have many subtitles in future blogs if I continue to write about other hobbies than plane spotting. This new subject is like the one I started earlier which is called Rabbit Hole. Thus far, however, there has only been one rabbit hole although IContinue reading “Saturday, 19 February 2022”

HUMOR (ABOUT COVID) Thinking about humor as it relates to the covid-19 pandemic (including the variants), I am not in any way dismissing the seriousness of the pandemic or the personal toll it has taken on so many. Rather, I am thinking about humor as a human response to covid. It seems true of humanContinue reading “Thursday, 17 February 2022”

IRONING Today I ironed three shirts and started to think about this ancient art and task. I don’t know that I was ever taught to iron, but I certainly admit that I watched a lot of ironing in my day. My mother ironed everything from t-shirts to bed sheets to shirts to linen kitchen towels.Continue reading “Tuesday, 15 February 2022”

IMMATERIALITY The title of my blog today is misleading. I try to label each blog with only one word and so it is possible that what I write does not seem to relate well to the blog’s label. But this is how my mind works. One word describes an important feature of the blog’s content,Continue reading “Sunday, 13 February 2022”

MASCOTS The world of advertisements is filled with mascots, those loveable, trustable images that represent any one of thousands of products. Sometimes, they are called product reps or a spokesman (a spokesperson?) Generally, mascots should be cute and endearing so that we feel a kind of friendship with the mascot. This friendship brings with itContinue reading “Saturday, 12 February 2022”

INFORMATION I am home in Panamá after three weeks of seeking information in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is not to say that I found the necessary information in Scottsdale, but that this resort city was the homebase from where I sought the information in person and on the internet. Information is everywhere! The first batch ofContinue reading “Thursday, 10 February 2022”

GIFTS Now that most holidays are over and gift giving is focused mainly on birthday gifts, I started thinking about gifts. These are something that we give to each other, but the rules, customs and items vary enormously…to the point that some variations on the theme are not considered gifts at all. These variations includeContinue reading “Tuesday, 11 January 2022”

LEARNING This morning, the morning of Martyrs’ Day in Panama (observed), the photo found above would have only piqued my curiosity. But, either thanks to wanting to learn or to curiosity (which is said ‘kills the cat’) I needed to find out what the Panamanian flag, a streetlight pole, and a boy have in common.Continue reading “Monday, 10 January 2022”