"Simple Gifts," Aaron Copland, and the Swedish connection
Posted on Jul 3, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 4, 2009
a deeper look at the origin of "Simple Gifts"
Appalachian Spring, "Simple Gifts," Aaron Copland, Swedish folk music, jukeboxes, and Scandinavian America
MAUNDERING, June 2009
Posted on Jun 17, 2009 | Last Updated Jun 19, 2009
personal thoughts and reminiscences
humor, martial arts, movies, health, obesity, old age, fitness, smoking
Rant on Our Times, With Reply
Posted on Jun 5, 2009 | Last Updated Jun 5, 2009
A dynamic of social evolution
politics, Jesse Jackson, old times, liberals, conservatives, Spokane, Spokesman-Review, Idaho
Blogsite Newsletter June 2009
Posted on Jun 1, 2009 | Last Updated Jun 1, 2009
overdue newsletter
MisCon, publishing, agents, old age, The Signature of God, The Second Coming, Lois McMasters Bujold, Paatricia Briggs, Mercedes Thompson
HEALTH CARE
Posted on Nov 11, 2008 | Last Updated Nov 11, 2008
Aspects of the issue
National health care, political slogans, conventional wisdom, health insurance, national comparisons, cultural elements
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Posted on Oct 31, 2008 | Last Updated Nov 3, 2008
a personality study of a conflicted genius
J.C. Smuts, psychology, personality study, history, South Africa, British Empire, Boer War, Louis Botha, cultural study, cosmology
Government, the Real World, and Politics
Posted on Oct 12, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 12, 2008
analysis and commentary, from a partly epistemological viewpoint
politics, real world, statistical analysis, modeling, labor analyses, modeling, analogs, the labor movement, merchant marine, ships' boiler rooms, seamen, Great Lakes, Great Depression, hobos
ABOUT AGING: my own story so far
Posted on Oct 5, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 10, 2008
Personal observations on my own senility, the 5th in a series on aging
aging, senility, strokes, the brain