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  • Maslow’s Hierarchy on his Knees

    Maslow’s Hierarchy on his Knees

    What are three objects you couldn’t live without?

    H2O

    The natural instinct here is first to find what it means to live.

    But I think that distinction is important. For example towns such as Thunder Bay in northern Canada and Flint Michigan, residents must be creative to secure drinking water.

    Food Deserts

    For example, Suburban – Atlanta, GA:Many low-income neighborhoods south of downtown Atlanta are classified as food deserts, with high numbers of residents living over a mile from a supermarket without personal vehicles.

    I grabbed this example out of the air that there are many others. Supermarkets don’t want to develop here because of low income and it becomes a vicious circle.

    The concept of food deserts is an area I have studied. Two cities that I looked at closely, were Detroit, Michigan and Rochester, New York.

    Shelter

    We do so much in this country to placate the Rich. we need an affordable minimum wage that people can live and secure shelter.

    Religion

    I have no idea whether the concept of heaven and hell is real. I have my doubts. In a conversation with a good friend, who is the minister he told me his belief. He found the concept of heaven as a just reward on somebody else’s ledger.

    For many people air, water, food and shelter are a struggle. In a country as wealthy as ours it is embarrassing that we have people living in these conditions. We can do better.

    Food desert
  • Hyperbolic Cliche

    Hyperbolic Cliche

    What experiences in life helped you grow the most?
    Taking off the training wheels.

    I heard a good friend of mine say to me that after my divorce, I was never the same.

    OK

    Writing that I had to think about what he had to say there because it’s true. I lost some of my swagger and innocence. I’m OK with that.

    I grew into the person I needed to be. I learned I can’t always control other people, and they will be their own unique selves. All that I can do is work on me.

    Since then, it has been easier being who I am. It drew out the artist in me, the lifelong learner in me and the ever present parent.

    I took off the training wheels.

  • Quasi Dimensional Cornflakes

    Quasi Dimensional Cornflakes

    Do you believe in fate/destiny?

    Berlin alley

    A few months ago, I posted this photo of myself in a back alley in Berlin.

    Two days later, a friend of mine, that I knew from Portland Oregon, commented that she knows that spot

    She said she lives four blocks from there.

    She moved to Germany with her husband, they’re no longer married then she moved to Berlin and now lives three blocks from my son

    Is it destiny or fate?

    No it’s a bunch of wild coincidences.

    Fiction

    If you ever read fiction and thought to yourself, that could never happen. But it does that’s what life’s all about. It is a bunch of random coincidences starting with a butterfly effect.

    One little change in the universe has a ripple effect and just rolls through society. You don’t even know what’s happening.

    Happenstance

    My son was conceived as a result of me missing a flight to Dallas.

    Did American Airlines cancel that flight for a reason?

    If he was conceived on a different day, would he be a different person?

    Why would anybody fly American Airlines?

    How did I get into the computer industry anyways to get on that flight?

    How did I meet my wife at the time?

    I met her in Reading Pennsylvania and she just moved there from Japan and I just moved there from Virginia.

    She is German so there’s a common thread for all you conspiracy theorists.

    We kind of met in a cornfield.

    Was that destiny?

    No. More likely a butterfly landed on a bush in a back alley in Japan somewhere because it set the whole thing in motion.

    Or

    Accidentally Like A Martyr
  • Stating The Obvious

    Stating The Obvious

    Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.

    In retrospect there have always been periods to say good by to. Generally these transitions happen with little pomp and circumstance.

    We live our lives preparing for the upcoming phases in our lives. We are saying good by all the time. Until we are not.

    For example, my constant companion Cooper passed away suddenly a few months back. I mentally prepared for the possibility at a later time, but this happened so suddenly. The transition to life without Cooper is difficult yet many great memories remain.

    Luna

    Our Jack Russel still looks for him briefly when we head out for a walk. I wonder often how the transition was for Cooper.