A tough lesson to learn for me!

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Here is the lede to the article in today’s NY Times:

Revelations of a Mere Mortal

By JEFFREY D. BARNETT

Here’s the lesson:

I can apply this to many social issues and common complaints, and I know that isn’t always healthy. If someone hasn’t been slapped in the face with mortality then it’s perfectly reasonable that he would apply high priority to problems of lesser consequence. To be fair, when I catch myself worrying about issues of little consequence I often remind myself that nobody will die because of it, so I should probably chill out. I have no delusions that I am perfect or that I apply my own rules perfectly, but I do seek to hold myself to the same standard.

My point is somewhat embodied in a radio transmission I made to our headquarters when they requested some routine information during the R.P.G. fire incident. “Let me get back to you. I’ve got more pressing issues right now.” After experiencing scenarios with the gravest consequences, I find myself filtering most other issues through that sieve. And while that may make me seem a little high-strung, I am also much more open to experiencing life in small tranquil sips. This theme has followed many of my post-deployment changes. Some are neither clearly good nor clearly bad, just different.

Patience, chilling out, taking and giving time!

Those are things I have great difficulty doing! And I will need to do them more often in the coming months as I try to push on to the next project in my life, importing special spirits from Canada to China and living in China for longer periods!

 

Today’s fast cameras and novel images

I love digital photograpy. I like neat and unusual images. I skitched this one from NY Times’ web news site:

Do you see the image of the mortar shell swoooooshing out of the mortar tube and in the upper left of the photo? Now isn’t that neat, even if it’s only a digital accident or coincidence. The photo was clicked at the right time so that the image capture mechanism caught the brief flashing image of the shell . WOW!

In Lala land (aka San Fran) Happiness biz is bullish!

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Not only the Buddhist monks are upwardlooking out there. Check out the happy words and photos at NY Times, which could use some financial happiness words these days!

This blog always seems to get good viewership whenever I post about “happiness”. Since it’s Thanksgiving day I look forward to check out the viewership for this blog post today and during the next few.

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All that you should know about sex in Sweden and elsewhere

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What are we going to do for “real information” if the “Grey Lady” (NY Times) disappears or is foreshortened because of its financial problems and its drooping stock price?

Well here is a link to another useful and not unwholesome look at SEX. Just the thing for after TxGiving dindins!

Just take a shot of whatever before, during and after and enjoy!

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Since it’s so much in the news, do you wonder how the NY Stock Exchange floor looks?

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NY Times offers a unique rotating panoramic image and audio description of it here!

Since the 2008 Bear market is in free fall I felt the weirdness of the situation looking at and listening to this image of the NYSE trading floor.

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• Earnings Woes Push Stocks Down

Really bad financial news about my favorite news source – NY Times

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WTF..k is going on!

And here is more about this troubling situation. Since Wall Street is foundering it seems that more and more NYC institutions are vulnerable and on the point of failing. Will NYC just become another pathetic ghost town?

Latest news about K-2 mountaineering accident

Check out this Time Magazine link for grittier information!

And then the usual NY Times link for most complete report and an interactive graphic.

Happiness is a) Warm Puppy, b) Money, c) None

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Eduardo Porter muses this morning in the NY Times editorial page about the American reality in the “pursuit of happiness”. The familiar words are from the US Constitution but this doesn’t mean that happiness is mandated for US citizens.

Now I can’t help wondering what reaction my blog readers are going to manifest about this post on happiness!