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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: what early retirement feels like now that I am into it
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. Wednesday, September 26, 2012. What early retirement feels like now that I am into it. I wrote this here in my blog rather than my journal because it is more about the meaning or trajectory of my life. 2010 and 2011 turned out to be amazing and exciting and quite scary at times, as I recorded here and in my journal. But this summer of 2012 it gradually became obvious to me that I am done setting up this new life and now I am just living it. So, is that the story of 2012?
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: A Fun Day For a Daytonian at Occupy Charlotte
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. A Fun Day For a Daytonian at Occupy Charlotte. On my way to Florida for the winter, on a beautiful, sunny November 18th, 2011, I drove into downtown Charlotte, North Carolina to look for Occupy Charlotte. The high point of my afternoon had to be when I walked from the Occupy site north to the heart of downtown Charlotte, to in front of the Bank of America headquarters. There I was greeted by several protesters with some nice durable signs, one of which I borrowed....They ...
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: Support and Love After a Cancer Diagnosis
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. Friday, September 30, 2011. Support and Love After a Cancer Diagnosis. Guest post by David Haas. All the way to aggressive cancers such as mesothelioma. Targeted information about different tests, symptoms, and treatment options for cancer patients with a specific type of cancer is often more helpful than a group that was created to support people who have received any type of cancer diagnosis. The National Cancer Institute. Mike Monett -Ohio, Florida.
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: The Endangered Planet and Me -a short biography
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. The Endangered Planet and Me -a short biography. I began this bio on my 56th birthday, March 29th, 2010. My earliest years, the late 1950s and early 1960s, were relatively tranquil I now know, so I don't remember being afraid about wars or other crises. I grew up with a brother and three sisters in a safe and nice neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. I think from the earliest age I was more attuned to reality and less prone to fantasy and denial than other American kids my age...
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: I've joined in, hoping this is the revolt I've been waiting for
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. Thursday, October 6, 2011. I've joined in, hoping this is the revolt I've been waiting for. Yesterday, Tuesday October 5th, I joined about sixty-five other Daytonians in a demonstration downtown, Occupy Dayton. In just three days, Occupy Dayton. Grew from just four people. It appears also to be growing tremendously now as we plan our next gatherings Friday night and Saturday. I'm hearing that the corporate-owned "news" media as usual is clueless about what has begun. ...
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: September 2011
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. Friday, September 30, 2011. The good news, and the guest post below. The health situation that became a big deal and for which I made a separate page. Has resolved in a good way. If my luck continues all of this will just be an important memory a few months from now. But I have learned so much that I never knew before. Just one major example is that I now know what it feels like to think I probably have cancer. That is why I was interested in David Haas' blog. Mike Monett...
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: What's Next -Now That Everything's Changed?
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. Tuesday, December 13, 2011. What's Next -Now That Everything's Changed? This blog began over a year and a half ago as what I now realize was an attempt to live through despair. Of course the bizarre events of my rapidly-changing personal life then distracted me with a climax in September when I thought I had terminal bladder cancer and was preparing for the end of my life. On September 17th in New York City the Occupy Wall Street movement began. I immediately recogniz...
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: For locals: my past Dayton involvements
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. For locals: my past Dayton involvements. Composed February 27th, 2010:. In December, 1996, at the age of 42, I started a website called "New Ideas Now -Dayton and the Edge Cities", to aggregate news and commentary about suburban sprawl and how it was contributing to the death of downtowns and core cities like Dayton. The mall and the taxpayer-funded infrastructure for it never happened, although the opposition efforts were only partly responsible for this fact.). I also a...
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: May 2011
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. Thursday, May 26, 2011. Another source of commentary I recommend. As I said, I've become shocked by the escalation of the take-over of American politics by corporations and the wealthy at a time I would have expected at least a pause. That's why I recommended the lectures of Michael Parenti as background. Now I am adding another new link to my list, an interview program:. As for Terrence McNally, what makes him better than someone like Diane Rehm in my opinion?
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas: December 2011
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Mike Monett -thoughts and ideas. Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Most Expansive View Yet of Corporatism. I view truth in terms of "holons", a word I learned from reading Ken Wilber's book, A Brief History of Everything. This just means that truths "transcend and include" other truths. I try to have few favorite links here because I want to just link to those unique voices that I think are the most "over-arching", whose view of the truth is the most "transcendant and inclusive" of everything else that is true.
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