Arnold was exhausted.  He concluded it was because he was around other people.  When he sat at home alone, he had plenty of energy, or at least enough.  At 80, he never had quite enough energy.  Alone, he interacted with people by a distance, with delays—texts, emails.  No matter how stressful the interaction was, now…

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A New Climate Change Jack was increasingly concerned about climate change.  Not tornadoes or atmospheric rivers or heat waves.  Jack was concerned about farts.  People ate healthier, with far more fiber, resulting in a wave of farts.  Riding in an elevator was often an unpleasant experience, as was being stuck in a meeting with ten…

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A group of elephants, wisest of the beasts, wanted a leader and asked the Wise Old Elephant what to do.  She asked why they could not make their own decision.  They did not understand her response and created a King. The Rhinos said don’t do it, but the elephants would not listen. He was not…

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Emily Dickinson hated submitting.  It was demeaning, ill fitting.  She wrote for herself and felt no need for her work to be judged by others.  But.  By her sixties she had many poems sitting unknown on her shelves and now believed people should read them.  She had to get her work published.  Yet Emily Dickinson…

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