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Are You Living ‘Deliberately’?

“I went to the woods to live deliberately so that I might not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived,” said Henry David Thoreau. He used his inner wisdom to realize he needed to know why he was here on Planet [...]

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Places I’ve Been Along the Way – Trinidad, part II

by John W Strobel III

Author’s note: Last week in “Places I’ve been along the way”, I told you of how I lived and worked in New Orleans and Trinidad, British West Indies mapping offshore oil exploration sites. This week I’ll take you there and introduce you to a happy, calypso singing people who lived to party. JWSIII On our [...]

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Places I’ve Been Along The Way – Trinidad

by Moments Count

This is part I of a two-part series from one of my favorite story-tellers, John W Strobel III. Be sure to watch next week for the final installment! It was March of 1954, a time of slow tempo living in Southern California. The mornings of low hanging mist and fog in our seaside city of [...]

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Teardrops on the City

by Thomas Norman DeWolf

White man with a guitar leans on black man playing a saxophone. Both are dressed in black and white clothes. White album cover. Everything about the Born to Run album cover is black and white. Very little about Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons was. They didn’t make an issue over a black man playing in [...]

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The Truth About Me & The Princess

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Finally, the truth of my relationship with the Princess Lamballe. Well, right off the bat, I must admit we can’t have known each other terribly well. She was a contemporary of Marie Antoinette. She died in 1792. But I must be quite the expert on her life and death. Because, according to just about every [...]

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People I’ve Met Along The Way | John and Yoko at John’s at the Beach…

by John W Strobel III

It was a warm August evening in 1968 on Dover Lane, in Pierpont Bay, on the beach in Ventura, California. People lined the shore waiting for a run of grunion that was supposed to happen at high tide around 10:00 o’clock. The beachfront was dotted with bon fires as a feeling of excitement filled the [...]

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New Ideas and the Brick Wall

by Rochelle Burns

You know your idea is excellent. You just can’t see why others don’t get it. There’s a reason for that. You are at a point where you grew to accept that idea. Your listeners aren’t there – yet. Using your inner wisdom, your understanding of that fact is what will get your idea across to [...]

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When Old Men Were Young

by John W Strobel III

I lived during that time when old men were young… John William Strobel III I guess it’s not fair to talk so much about the “good old days” today. Those of you who were not around then are probably feeling a little left out, and well you should. There is a special recognition that goes [...]

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My Boots Are Disco

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

I know when you hear the phrase disco boots, your mind goes in a very distinct direction. For the purposes of this blog post, it’s the wrong direction. My new hiking boots are disco. This is not a compliment. Years ago (hell, who am I kidding–decades ago) I was watching something on TV. Two young [...]

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Poison Control

by John W Strobel III

It had to be the year 1943. In those days, a fellow had to be twelve years old to be a Boy Scout. So when I turned twelve, I joined Ventura County Boy Scout Troop 102. In 1943 I was a “Tenderfoot”, the lowest classification in the organization, but I had just joined so that’s [...]

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