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Dec 11 2018

GROWING OLD IS A JOKE

By HumbleSky Culture, Longevity 4 Comments

“When you laugh, it’s an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you don’t laugh, you’ll die.” -- Mel Brooks Humor…

Dec 04 2018

Love24

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: FIRST 20-19, THEN 20-20

By HumbleSky Culture, Random/Rants 3 Comments

We’ve got one year to get this right. Soon it will be 2019. That is, “twenty-nineteen.” Rather than “two-thousand-nineteen.” Why do I make this annual plea? Just imagine how cool it will be to call the year “20-20.” It’s shorter…

Nov 27 2018

Love34

DIAGNOSIS: NEGATIVE

By HumbleSky Longevity, Random/Rants 10 Comments

I pretty much know the answer ahead of time, but I ask anyways: ME: My lower back aches a lot lately? There are a few new skin discolorations on my leg? This cough has been lingering for weeks? Spicy food…

Nov 20 2018

Love26

THANKSGIVING NEEDS AN EXTREME MAKEOVER

By HumbleSky Culture, Humility, Philosophy 4 Comments

Thanksgiving is the Rodney Dangerfield of holidays. It gets no respect, no respect. That the celebration is consigned to a turkey dinner says a lot about our culture. We’ve become more interested in tricks and treats and crass commercialism than…

Nov 13 2018

Love24

DETROIT’S ‘FIST’ HONORS THE GOOD FIGHT

By HumbleSky Culture 3 Comments

Joe Louis almost single-handedly punched a hole in Hitler’s theory of the “superiority” of the Aryan race. As a record 70 million radio listeners tuned in, the African American boxer defeated the German Max Schmeling in 1938, set against the…

Nov 06 2018

Love27

ECO-PROFITEERS FLAUNT SCHADENFREUDE

By HumbleSky Culture, Random/Rants One Comment

The United Nations’ landmark report on the state of the planet’s livability reinforces concerns and emphasizes the need for immediate action to be taken -- with real catastrophe now just 12 years away. If you believe in such things. If…

Oct 30 2018

Love37

QUIET, GENIUSES AT WORK

By HumbleSky Culture, Humility, Philosophy 2 Comments

“At the heart of every great business is a creative solution to a problem,” is Time (10-15-18) magazine’s way of introducing its first annual list of “50 Genius Companies.” The global network of editors and correspondents who compiled the list…

Oct 23 2018

Love43

Hollywood: Show Older Adults Due Respect

By HumbleSky Film & TV, Longevity 3 Comments

By Stuart Greenbaum Remember when Harold said to Maude: “A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They’re just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance …” The science of artful communication has…

Oct 16 2018

Love30

SPREAD THESE GOOD WORDS, WORLDWIDE

By HumbleSky Culture One Comment

How would you describe musically induced ecstasy? There isn’t really the right word in the English language. In Arabic, however, the sensation is called tarab. And in Creole, the word for such a state of euphoric confusion or dizzy/dazed happiness…

Oct 09 2018

Love36

Bullying Goes Old School/Home

By HumbleSky Culture, Longevity 5 Comments

By Stuart Greenbaum Nathan Faris, an overweight, brainy 12-year-old, hated going to school. He was picked on relentlessly, tormented, to the point he vowed revenge. One day he’d had enough and came to school with a loaded pistol, his “equalizer.”…

GROWING OLD IS A JOKE

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT: FIRST 20-19, THEN 20-20

DIAGNOSIS: NEGATIVE

THANKSGIVING NEEDS AN EXTREME MAKEOVER

DETROIT’S ‘FIST’ HONORS THE GOOD FIGHT

ECO-PROFITEERS FLAUNT SCHADENFREUDE

QUIET, GENIUSES AT WORK

Hollywood: Show Older Adults Due Respect

SPREAD THESE GOOD WORDS, WORLDWIDE

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