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GULLIBILITY You may have seen this photograph on the internet. It is one of the multitudinous phantasmagorical photos used in graphic art to get your attention. This one above has been used to draw you to a list of the world’s most dangerous beaches. Only a gullible person would believe this is a real beach.Continue reading “24 de Agosto 2021”

AVIATION I have never been interested in being a pilot or in the technical things that make up planes, but I did develop an interest in aviation when I was a young boy. Every Sunday evening, my parents would pack us up in the station wagon and off we would go to a drive-through iceContinue reading “23 de Agosto 2021”

FORGETTING First, let me be clear. This pensée today is not about dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease. It’s also not about marketing and the forgetting curve (see above link) or even trace theories. No, my thinking about forgetting is about what is forgotten and then remembered. We forget a lot of things in a lifetime, butContinue reading “22 de Agosto 2021”

FREDRICK THE GREAT I asked myself this morning, ‘Why am I thinking about my grandfather?’ Then suddenly it came to me. I had made reference to him while walking with staff person at Panama City’s Pacifica Salud Hospital. Of all things, I was being led down a corridor to get prepped for a colonscopy andContinue reading “21 de Agosto 2021”

Taking Another look Double-checking has always been a good idea. It’s one of those things that can prevent mishaps, misunderstandings, mistakes and unnecessary maneuvers. This is something we learn in primary school. We can remember our teachers saying, “Remember, before you hand in your paper, you should double check your work.” Of course, we didContinue reading “19 de Agosto 2021”

CHILDREN AND WAR Many of us remember images from the world wars, the war in Vietnam and in Afghanistan most recently. If we were not cognizant of or witnesses to these events, we likely have seen pictures of what these wars looked like. Today, I saw video of babies and children being lifted over theContinue reading “18 de Agosto 2021”

BIRDS As I sit at my desk this afternoon, I look upon a beautiful view of Panama City. I’m looking eastward where I see skyscrapers in the foreground and blue-green hills in the background. Of course, typical of this area are billowing clouds, blue patches of sky (it is the rainy season after all) andContinue reading “17 de Agosto 2021”

HISTORY There is a lot of consternation in our lives today. You name it: religion, politics, economies local and global, social norms, culture, etc. In any one of these categories, it would be very difficult to find agreement. The only overriding exception might be that we would all agree that discourse about these matters hasContinue reading “16 de Agosto 2021”

BRUSHING YOUR TEETH I have written earlier about teeth, but a curious concern about teeth came to mind last night when I was watching an old movie called It Always Happens on a Thursday (1953, starring John Forsythe and Loretta Young). Loretta rises first in the cramped New York apartment and the first thing sheContinue reading “15 de Agosto 2021”

NUMBERS Numbers come to mind as a topic because I literally wasted yesterday swamped in numbers! It’s not as if I were doing anything mathematical, but I was stuck in the internet world of codes and passwords, which today are not even a constant. Every month seems to bring the demand for a change inContinue reading “13 de Agosto 2021”