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artfulnotes: Growing Up Poor
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Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. I grew up somewhere between poor and lower middle class. Raised in a largely single parent household, by a working mom who had a high school education (maybe). Pops was there occasionally, mainly when he had finished his drinking spree and wanted the comfort of a home and good woman. Sometimes, my mom would let him in, sometimes not. Mainly, though, he was missing in action. But throughout this period, when we were forming our personalities, no one...
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artfulnotes: June 2014
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Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Monday, June 16, 2014. I have already written about my notions of tribes and tribalism:. See- http:/ www.artfulnotes.blogspot.com/search/label/Tribes. Sunday, June 8, 2014. What Would Obama Do? What Would Obama Do? Thinking About that old saw, “what would Jesus do? 8221; Then it struck me; it guides life without actually thinking. So, I finally figured out how republicans decide what to support and what to oppose. They just ask, “what would Obama do? So, Obama is in favor of...
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artfulnotes: September 2014
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Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Friday, September 26, 2014. Global Messes and Our Inattention. For example, on our southern border, we have flocks of folks, including a bunch of little kids, hurrying across the border, seeking safe haven. That makes us grumpy. How can we drink our beer and watch the NFL with all these little kids scurrying across and around our fences? So do we do anything about the root causes? No What could we do? But what can we do now? Maybe . . . only maybe. Poor folks can't buy bread?
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artfulnotes: July 2014
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Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Thursday, July 24, 2014. Or, perhaps when they convince some young thing to don a dynamite vest, walk into a crowded marketplace and detonate the vest. Makes me wonder what the relative death toll is—Israelis killing Muslims, or Muslims killing Muslims? I wonder, how many people have to die before we conclude that too many people have died? Labels: The Middle east. Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Other planets, other times . . . And so, my love, here’s to us . . . s...The 70s . &...
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Velveteen Rabbi: Debra Zaslow's Bringing Bubbe Home
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Now running and playing with the real rabbis! Laquo; Inspiring awe, cultivating joy. Confronting Jewish privilege at the Jewish-Muslim emerging leaders retreat ». June 27, 2014. Debra Zaslow's Bringing Bubbe Home. Several years ago, at an ALEPH Kallah. In California, I was blessed to take a week-long sacred storytelling class taught by master storyteller Debra (a.k.a. Dvorah) Zaslow. Bringing Bubbe Home: A Memoir of Letting Go Through Love and Death. White Cloud Press, 2014) - I knew I wanted to read it.
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Velveteen Rabbi: Credo
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Now running and playing with the real rabbis! Laquo; Mourning and redemption. Israeli blogs on Global Voices ». August 11, 2005. My recent reading has included a post about credos. From Kasturi at Not Native Fruit. Of the Nicene Creed. By Sandy of Number Five Looks Just Like You. We know that one name of God. Creator of Heaven and Earth,. Source of all that is seen and unseen. Late last year I bookmarked this post by desertpastor. About nineteenth-century American philosopher and author Elbert Hubbard.
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artfulnotes: November 2014
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Portrait of a Cranky Old Man. Sunday, November 23, 2014. Digital Art: Is it Art? Then in 1986 I acquired my first PC, and gradually the software that would allow me to create this thing called digital art. I used Corel Draw/Paint initially. Of course, my first printer was a monochrome HP printer. In the old days, whenever I had a technical problem, I would call HP and actually speak to an engineer in Redwood City, California. To publicize my digital art. 8221; Is it ART, or merely the creation of the Pho...
