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Author: Rick Thues

Disaster Doggedness

February 17, 2022 Uncategorized 1 Comment
Episode #681 February 19, 2022     It began with a quiet rumble in the drive train of my Toyota truck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-c83KZ09TU i took the truck to Ed, my mechanic, to diagnose. Ed could not isolate the sound and sent me on my way. Weeks later the rumble became a shudder, the the shudder became a bucking motion. The problem fast became a safety issue. Ed was so busy that he could not see my truck so i brought it into the Toyota dealer for immediate service. Toyota diagnosed a failing drive shaft. The replacement drive shaft is discontinued for...
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The One That Got Away

February 9, 2022 Uncategorized 5 Comments
  Episode #680 February 12, 2022       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeKGPhcSPHk The One That Got Away        (a parable) -- by rickiT I have known many women. We have parted for many reasons, but only one was the one that got away. I met Trudy in a beach volleyball game. She was the captain of the other team. Her orders to teammates were direct and concise. Team members reacted quickly. My team didn’t have a chance. The game was a blowout, so Trudy invited us all for pizza on her. At the parlor I sat next to Trudy. She...
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Criticism

February 1, 2022 Uncategorized No Comments
Episode #679 February 5, 2022   Critique or criticism? These are vastly different attitudes, yet we can easily slip between the two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gK5iPbd7Hg Love will often bring an urge to advise/critique. Advice is meant to protect, support, encourage and enable. Counseling, recommendations, coaching, teaching and iMentoring are acts of love. Critique can be misunderstood. Humans often see advice as judgment. Judgment is offensive. Interference, kibitzing, meddling, moralizing, pontification, exhortation, lecturing and preaching are gut interpretations of judgment. Here are some things i do to avoid the slippery slope of offense. My primary assumption is that all critique is advice and...
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Skydiving Museum

January 24, 2022 Uncategorized 5 Comments
Episode #678 January 29, 2022 An amazing new attraction is planned for Orlando, Florida. The International Skydiving Museum and Hall of Fame will break ground this year. The Museum will consist of immersive video and interactive exhibits. Visiting the Skydiving Museum will be almost like making a skydive yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-RTyKOFGgo To add the the realism of the experience there will be a state of the art indoor skydiving vertical wind tunnel. There will also be the first in the United States wingsuit tunnel. Here is video of a vertical wind tunnel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgc8PPoWqo With no skydiving experience at all you can...
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purgatory

January 18, 2022 Uncategorized 4 Comments
Episode #677 January 22, 2022 This is purgatory. It is not heaven and it is not as hellish as hell.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly6ZhQVnVow I have filled this place with my own demons and my own angels.  They challenge my happiness, sadness, fear and anger. None of these challenges are right or wrong. They are just choice. Free will is my choice. My choice is my destiny.  Those souls with me are also purgatorians. They provide an increment by which I measure my sanctity.  Some of my fellows in purgatory are critics. It is their struggle with fear and anger. Some...
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Wind

January 12, 2022 Uncategorized 3 Comments
Episode #676 January 15, 2022 Sometimes the wrong decision is made for the wrong reason. In the following story, reason did not reason in.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYT9Vyu62A Wind I’m driving east on I-80 just passing through Sugarloaf. I realize that I have not skydived in Pennsylvania. “Don Kellner runs a drop zone near here,” I say aloud to an empty car. “Siri, where is “Above the Poconos Skydivers?” She starts my turn by turn directions. i sing “Pennsylvania” by Matthew Mole. “One day love would ring me up In Pennsylvania And we'd never be the same again” The Mustang flies along...
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