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  • What is Living

    What is Living

    What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?

    By definition

    “Living” primarily refers to the condition of being alive, the pursuit of a livelihood to sustain oneself, or the state of residing somewhere. Beyond its literal dictionary definitions, “living” takes on deeply philosophical and personal meanings depending on how you choose to shape your day-to-day existence.

    I’ve been doing a lot of living without lately. I spent last weekend at our house that had a large sofa, pillows, blankets, coffee maker, vacuum cleaner, a wet, dry vac, and a birdfeeder.

    I am alive here and typing this. So I lived without a lot of things. Being in the middle of a large move these items were luxury items.

    It may sound like a snarky response, but it is actually not. A country is rich as ours is embarrassing. How many homeless people we have. To a person living on the street a blanket is a luxury item.

    Both my kids in Germany live without a car. That’s a luxury item to them. They don’t need it. They get around fine on trains.

    During the moving process, I start stop taking things to Goodwill. I simply put them out in the curb. There is an adage that goes – one man’s junk is another person‘s treasure.

    I have no idea what someone’s going to do with that beat up recliner the cats destroyed.

    But I couldn’t live without my imagination.

  • Drinking Club With A Running Problem

    Drinking Club With A Running Problem

    If humans had taglines, what would yours be?

    Humans do have tag lines, whether we know it or not. Through gossip, innuendo or however, you’ve earned it, you’ve have a tagline.

    The Hash House Harriers

    The Hash House carriers are an international running group all over the world.

    The Hash House Harriers (HHH or H3 or H4) is an international group of non-competitive running social clubs. An event organized by a club is known as a Hash or Run, or a Hash Run. A common denominal verb for this activity is Hashing, with participants calling themselves Hashers. Members are referred to as Harriers or Harriettes based on gender or preference.

    The Hash is humorously known as A Drinking Club With A Running Problem, with the preferred beverage of consumption being beer. (Wikededia)

    We eventually get a Name

    I’ve been running with a group since 1988 in places all over the United States and occasionally overseas. There comes a time when you get a name that follows you wherever you go. My hash name is Grosser Scheisser which means Big Shi**er in English. This name comes from my ability to tell stories that are larger than life.

    I got phone calls from people asking for Big, people call me it all the time. One of my favorite traditions is sitting around a fire after running and drinking beer. Usually when people get their names.

    Then there are imposters

    Some people come to this running group knowing some of the traditions. They fabricate a name that was not given to them while running with the hash. I can spot the impostors pretty quickly as they tell the story a little differently every time. You have to earn it usually by doing something ridiculously stupid.

    OnOn

  • Tale of Two Cities

    Tale of Two Cities

    List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?

    Dickens -Tale of Two Cities

    This is Madam Defarge knitting the names of the current Trump regime, where they can be tried as traitors.

  • It’s A Good Life If We Don’t Weaken

    It’s A Good Life If We Don’t Weaken

    What are the most important things needed to live a good life?

    The following are lyrics from a song of the very same name by the Tragically Hip. this version is from the Canadian musical awards, where Leslie Feist sings, in place of Gordon Downey, who passed away a few years back from brain cancer. It’s a beautiful piece of music and I think we all need a beautiful piece of music in our life.

    When the colour of the night

    And all the smoke in one life

    Gives way to shaky movements

    And improvisational skills

    In a forest of whispering speakers

    Let′s swear that we will

    Get with the times

    In a current health to stay

    And let′s get friendship right

    Get life day-to-day

    In the forget-your-skates dream

    Full of countervailing woes

    As diverse as ever scenes

    Proceeding on a need-to-know

    In a face so full of meaning

    As to almost make it glow

    And go someplace where we are needed.