0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
THE ZEN OF SARCASM:
Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“The pieces you have chosen not to write today will not wither away and die. They will transform themselves out of sight and continue to exist. Hold on to them, but also let them go. The only thing present is your mission piece, the piece you are now committed to writing. Be thankful that you now have a piece into which to pour your enthusiasm.” p. 46
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
THE ZEN OF SARCASM:
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“The writer signs a pact in his own blood that he will write well; then he keeps his promise.” p. 41
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
THE ZEN OF SARCASM:
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“… there is no substitute for holding onto the intention to write, opening yourself up to writing ideas and rushing to the computer when an idea strikes.” p. 28
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
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0922 by Jeff Hess
Previously…
We are all either free or slaves. The marker that defines in an instant into which category we reside is our ability to say no. Choice is the only measure of freedom. One of the strange realities in this calculus of freedom and choice is that we are free to choose, as in the economy of ancient Israel, to be slaves, to nail our ear to the doorpost. We surrender our freedom in exchange for real and perceived benefits and, occasionally, to escape the burden of responsibility that freedom entails. Freedom is a heavy load that few are able to carry.
In the United States of America our national myth is that we live in the land of the free. There may have been some small truth to that claim when Francis Scott Key penned his battle poem, but it has long since ceased to be the case. We are freer than many citizens of other nations, but we are not Free. In any society we choose to reside in we take on the laws and conventions of that society in order to enjoy the benefits of that community. In a microcosm, one of the most important benefits of living in community is that we have others to care for us when we cannot care for ourselves. The Mountain Man Continue Reading »
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0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
THE ZEN OF SARCASM:
Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Found in my electronic chapbook.
Feel like you can write. Write. Live. Learn about the marketplace. That”s about it. p. 23
From Living The Writer’s Life: by Eric Maisel.
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1254 by Jeff Hess
Previously…
We have a shortage in the United States of general medical practitioners. Why not establish a four-year academy of medicine taken from the model of our existing service academies for the Army, Navy (including Marines), Air Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine? Such an academy would produce in 96 months (cadets in the service academies don”t get summer vacations, but typically spend their summer quarters getting real world experience) young doctors prepared to practice general medicine; family physicians able to provide general healthcare in settings where little or no healthcare exists in the United States.
The precedent for such a service academy was set with our first academy: West Point. Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, the father of West Point made civil engineering the foundation of the academy”s curriculum and supplied the engineers who would direct the building of much of our nation”s early infrastructure.
I discovered that there is already a United States Medical Academy at Bethesda, Maryland. The Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences, however, is a traditional post-graduate program that includes the F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine and a Graduate School of Nursing. Established in 1972, the academy has twin mottoes that very neatly define its purpose: Learning To Care For Those In Harm”s Way and Providing Good Medicine In Bad Places; Continue Reading »
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0925 by Jeff Hess
Tuesday evening our Socrates Café met at the Mayfield Road Phoenix Coffee House and the question we pulled from the box was:
Do we have a right to healthcare?
The italics are there because the writer of the question underlined the word.
In our initial around-the-table responses, everyone either said that there was no such right, or expressed discomfort with definitions of a right. And because of that, we spent the first half of our discussion exploring just what a right is.
The consensus was that two kinds of rights exist. The first is the natural kind, in line with Thomas Jefferson’s use of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence. The second, which we agreed applied in this case, was created rights as listed in our state and national constitutions or as written in legislation.
The rights of the second type are ethereal, being subject to the whims of legislatures and the amendment process. (An interesting side discussion developed over a member’s belief that the first ten amendments to the national constitution are not subject to alteration. While tradition might suggest that the Bill of Rights is in some sense sacred and inviolate, no such constitutional protection exists.) Continue Reading »
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