Beware of the Grudge

If you know me you may think I am a nice person, sure enough it’s true by definition. I’m caring, but not cavity sweet, straightforward but flexible, patient and dynamic. The conflicts of the creative versus calculating sides of my personality have resulted in a conservative and archaic perspective on grudges. The moral high road for me is the on ramp to the “Moving on” Expressway. “Forgive and Forget” for me is “Begrudge and Move on”. My staunchly republican, blue collar, grandfather’s voice resonates with me when he quoted Sgt. George S. Patton “Lead me, follow me, or get the hell outta my way.”

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What you may not know about Rochambeau

It is a lingua franca, or a universal game, dating back to the Han dynasty of China (206 BC-220 AD), simply called shoushilling (trans. ‘hand command’) and nearly two thousand years later we still play this simple game, called by various names all over the globe. English speakers call it Roshambo (technically Rochambeau) or “rock-paper-scissors”, “ick-ack-ock”, or even “ching-chang-walla” and is most often played between 2 people in a decision-making challenge, much like drawing straws or plucking daisy petals, but requires no props real props. While it was introduced to Europeans as late as the 1920’s for its portability and simple instructions, quickly gained popularity for its considered “uncheatable” fairness. In the 1930’s Rochambeau was promoted widely in America, more specifically aimed towards school-age children that could take this game with them where-ever they may be and use it to settle trivial disputes (thereby freeing up the parents/adults need to inter...

Making sense up as I go

Side effects can be good. New data that science has been acquiring and collecting about the brain itself has provided an over-stimulating amount of data to condense usable information from. How much we don’t know about the brain is not only ironic, it's borderline tragic. I keep my eyes and ears on new studies published. Reading knowledgeable interpretations of information about the brain are much easier to chew on. I am hopeful the number of senses will be revised, upgrading our generation to Human version 2.0, but minimally I am hoping for an official promotion of ‘intuition’ as a new addition the team of five sense staples. I realize these chances are about as likely as Pluto getting an official reinstatement, and it’s at least as many miles away from sociological acceptance in the mainstream. Why intuition as our sixth sense? I’m not talking about ESP, or anything metaphysical (maybe hyper-real at most), but every human knows what this (intuition) is, every culture, all t...

One of a kind of...

I do not have a problem with being unique, or should I say not being unique. I mean, I suspect beyond a hunch that I am exactly like many people-most people even-but not all people in more than a handful of ways. I like the uniqueness of others. I am not unique though. I am like many people that are as just different as I am. “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” Harper Lee Americans love sugar, we even coat our fondest words with it. And fat, we love to chew our fat too. It seems most of us will eat whatever is placed in front of us. I lived in Texas briefly and many, many men (and a few women) called me ‘Sugar’ or ‘Hon’ or ‘Doll’, I only took personal offense with ‘Sugar’ and actually adopted the habit of saying ‘Hon’. Not many people say ‘Hon’ in California, I guess that’s different. Californians don’t actually say ‘DUDE’, not all Californians are actors, athletes, hippies or hobos although we do have these citizens. Most Californians say, ‘it’s all good’ or ‘no wor...

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