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Author: Rick Thues

Memory Retrieval

March 2, 2023 Uncategorized 3 Comments
Episode #735 March 4, 2023 Everyone has their own way of remembering. The older we get, the longer recall takes. In part this is because there is more memory to sift through. Also, older brains are less efficient than younger ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddgN9FlEWgU Young people typically don’t have to wait to remember something. The memory simply occurs to them without effort. It is like a movie clip that spontaneously plays back in the rememberer’s head. Like short term memory, the long term memory of youth is available instantly. Their pile of memories is not deep. There is little time during retrieval...
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Insurance

February 22, 2023 Uncategorized 3 Comments
Episode #734 February  25, 2023 I am sitting in Craig’s garage being fitted for my first skydiving video camera helmet. It is a plastic helmet with a sheet metal enclosure for my Sony Hi8 video camera. Mounted to the front will be a Canon EOS Rebel SLR still film camera.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhnrvkptDtM My head is draped with plastic as Craig blows foam between my head and the helmet. The acrid smell is overwhelming. A slight pressure presses against my temples. This helmet will fit snugly and solidly on my head. Back home, I mount the video camera into the...
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Luck

February 15, 2023 Uncategorized 5 Comments
Episode #733 February 18, 2023 Propitious knew a lot about luck. He was impulsive. Planning on the fly and dead reckoning were his typical modus operandi.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VWJzHpEFf8 One winter day Propitious was playing ice hockey with his friends on the neighborhood lake. They had swept the snow off the ice to create a hockey rink and set traffic cones at both ends as goals. A long, cross-rink pass came skittering toward Propitious. He skated to an intersection, raised his stick and swung, hitting the puck solidly. The puck flew inches above the ice only to be slapped aside and...
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Pointing

February 8, 2023 Uncategorized 3 Comments
Episode #732 February 11, 2023 Ogg, Huff and five of their fellow hunters crouched in the brush at the edge of a clearing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ra4joeJhM Ogg pointed into the clearing at a mammoth. The huge wooly creature shook his head, scattering the birds who were picking parasites from behind its ears. The animal bent its curved tusks toward the ground and began grazing on grass. Huff nodded at Ogg and pointed to the other side of the clearing. He made a circular motion with his finger. Ogg moved to his right, running around the edge of the clearing. Two of the...
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Letter of the Law

February 1, 2023 Uncategorized 3 Comments
Episode #731 February 4, 2023 My first brush with authority was in the first grade. It was the first assignment of my education.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ5v8L08Flg We were to prepare a verbal report on any subject we wanted. I don’t remember whether I was not paying attention when the assignment was given or simply forgot about it. On the day of the presentations I was blindsided. I had clearly failed to recognize the authority of my teacher. I had not prepared for the assignment. The teacher stood and spoke: “OK boys and girls. It is time to give your reports. When I...
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The Color of Kindness

January 25, 2023 Uncategorized 2 Comments
Episode #730 January 28, 2023   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enaRNnEzwi4 Quindnes walks along the bright spring lane of his neighborhood. He nods to neighbors and shakes the hands of some. His smile is as brilliant as his paintings. His paintings are drawn from his smile. The painter enters his ivy covered pid-a-terre. It is his studio where he creates his art. What he does is not easy, but he performs his work with ease. Quindnes is a master of kindness. He applies his pigment to a pure white canvas of love. Selfishness he sketches with black shadow, a framework for the abstraction. Warming...
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