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Inspired by Music

Recovered from the dustbin… Sometimes a song is more than a song more than the sum of just a poem set to music. Grandmother’s Song is musical memoir. No reconstruction of the author’s intent is required. Love and admiration are … Continue reading

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Medical Intervention

“Never has so much been written by so many, to be read by so few.” My friend Ian defined blogs for me years ago when I mentioned that I had one. I’ve become consumed by SPOF… Single Point of Failure … Continue reading

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Rain

I woke to a memory this morning, my grandmother and things past. This all was put into gear by two of my imaginary internet friends, one in Phoenix and the other in Wilro Park, Roodepoort, South Africa. I’ve been starting … Continue reading

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Struggle for Dominance

Most things in life amount to struggle for dominance. Homo Sapiens versus Neanderthals, hunter versus the prey… it does not matter, the end result is normally: there is a winner and a loser. An important point missed is whether or … Continue reading

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Don’t Feed the Parrot

“I’ve heard that so many times, I’m starting to believe it.” It is not the first time this ridiculous but telling proposition was entertained. Nor, the last. The Illusory Truth Effect flourishes with constant reiteration. The internet guarantees a perfect … Continue reading

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Facts Matter

People arrive at irrational fears by depending upon flawed reasoning and logic. The erroneous perception of reality blanketing America like an arctic storm is disheartening and delusional for it is this very delusion that continues to fuel the high level … Continue reading

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Dreaming of Electric Sheep

An individual’s complete human essence is summed up for all the world to see by social media likes or shares and Amazon and Walmart purchases; AI digitally defines us by algorithms. Those leaving big internet footprints are dusting the entire … Continue reading

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My Fellow Americans…

Aphantasia is not a word used frequently in daily discourse or even known to many including spell checkers. The miracle of Google yields multiple hits where minimally the word appears in a document catalogued and stored in some data bank … Continue reading

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Superior Adjectives & Adverbs

Use of adjectives and adverbs to somehow bolster something that by its definition clearly does not need emboldening is becoming more and more useless and particularly annoying. Politicians, and now the press, are off on a bender. Originally, it was … Continue reading

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Vision of Music

Sometimes a song is more than a song more than the sum of just a poem set to music. Grandmother’s Song is musical memoir. No reconstruction of the author’s intent is required. Love and admiration are obvious. Lament of unrecognized … Continue reading

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Ministry Of Alternative Facts

01.25.2017 Headlines and Official Press Release 3 to 5 million people voted illegally in November costing Trump the popular vote. Voter Fraud at the Core of Hillary Clinton’s winning the popular vote. Funding the Great, Great Wall by Congress will … Continue reading

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Ministry Of Propaganda Renamed

  In 1984 it was The Ministry of Propaganda.     Now relabled… From Ministry of Alternative Facts: “Unimportant things now more important than those truly important things.” Watch the News for full accounting of recent breaking Alternative Facts. Special … Continue reading

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pre·scient

  preSH(ē)ənt/ adjective 1. having or showing knowledge of events before they take place. 2. synonyms:  prophetic, predictive, visionary; psychic, clairvoyant; farsighted, prognostic, divinatory; insightful, intuitive, perceptive, percipient Oh, how I wish I knew!   © stevendphilbrick sr+ 01.12.2017 sukidawg

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