Common Scents
I saw a man and a woman walking up the trail from Carkeek Canyon toward the parking lot yesterday as we were about to pull out and the...
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ARTHUR BACON
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Dec 31, 2014
One God
Since you go to a church, any church, I think you should consider a few things about your belief in God, His “son”, The Holy Ghost,...
Dec 31, 2014
Trayvon Martin: Letter to the Editor of The New York Times
Every one of us with a three digit IQ knows who killed Trayvon Martin; the NRA. The NRA is the hand-maiden for the gun industry and...
Dec 31, 2014
Tim’s Vermeer. Penn and Teller.
First of all, what a dreadfully pretentious, expensive, meaningless, stupid idea to begin with; to make a copy of Vermeer’s The Music...
Dec 31, 2014
Why Stephen Lyman Is Not An Artist* (Letter to a Philistine)
*Remarks to an old college climbing, wrestling, skiing, rugby, drinking buddy When you told me that Stephen Lyman was “the second...
Dec 31, 2014
See La Paz
I guess an illustration of the Zeitgeist is that now a popular feature in the New York Times is their weekly “36 Hour” travel feature....
Dec 31, 2014
Scott Frost at Paradise Billiards
Recently I was at a birthday party for a friend’s wife at a cozy tavern along the shore of Lake Washington just north of Seattle. The...
Dec 31, 2014
“Respect Few, Fear None.”
Personally, I love government. I love my Social Security checks, Medicare, my Golden Age Pass; and I love the government agencies which...
Dec 31, 2014
Philosophy of Teaching
Many years ago, when I took my little girls to see Namu, The Killer Whale at Sea World, Namu was having a bad day and refused to do the...
Dec 31, 2014
Our Most Valuable Natural Resource
Generally, most people agree that, “You get what you pay for.” And, usually it is true. So, assuming most of us subscribe to this bit of...
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