Vents, PPE, test kits, face masks, commonsense, there are so many things we need to deal effectively with Covid-19. There is another apparatus (invention?) that would contribute mightily to our safety and well-being now and, arguably, beyond the pandemic. Each…
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This is worth repeating, because it’s only getting worse. The damage is done. By the automobile. The most destructive, harmful, wasteful, aggravating invention in history. We took a major wrong turn when we committed to travel primarily by single-occupancy vehicles…
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Caught these rascals chalking up the sidewalk across the street and asked if they’d be willing to also do a couple squares in front of our house. They politely agreed. And though they didn’t ask for or expect to be…
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Every now and then: Shut up and listen! The exercise projects humility. Plus, you might actually learn something. Of course, it’s easier said than done, no pun intended. Listening requires intentionality and, wait for it … patience. Most people are…
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“Never use your blinker, that just tips them off.” This cynical, decades-old mantra says plenty about the challenges we face on our daily commute, and maybe even more about a shift in our collective ethos. The inattentiveness, impatience and other…
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The verdict is in: President Trump is a serial killer … of words. The illiterate recidivist is most recently guilty of fatally wounding “imminent,” just as he did “hypocrisy” and at least a dozen other words and actions (truth, religion,…
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Lame that it’s going to take our familiarity with the “20/20” vision rating system to finally be comfortable with calling the new year, 2020, rightfully “twenty-twenty.” Since the turn of the millennia, we’ve been mired in the annual awkwardness of…
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There’s art in public spaces and then there’s art on public spaces. Sidewalks to be precise. Armed with spray paint and stencils, street artists are colorizing, democratizing and weaponizing urban concrete jungles, square by square, between the cracks. There are…
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ARCHIVE UPDATE -- The first time this essay posted on Humble Sky, the Comment section was disabled. Probably a random glitch with the server or blog platform. Although … the content did condemn the practices of Google and Facebook and…
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She said “No,” so I naturally assumed she simply didn’t understand what I was asking. Since my initial request to her friend or sister was received with a shrug and something in Spanish. I gestured that I was simply asking…
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