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Author: Rick Thues

Focus

April 27, 2020 Uncategorized 3 Comments
Episode 587 May 2, 2020 i exercise with my wife every day. Some repetitions are held for 30 seconds. Some reps are done 10 times per set. Some sets are repeated 3 times. All this counting is distracting to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP9ZIwVrxhk Luckily, Paula counts everything. She counts to herself, then calls out the next move. This frees me to focus on each exercise or stretch. i can visualize the muscles and ligaments moving, feel the burn as i push the stretch and listen to the pops from the joints. This allows for an intimate connection with my body. During a counted...
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Text

April 19, 2020 Uncategorized 2 Comments
Episode 586 April 25, 2020 Text began as cave drawings. Paintings on stone told stories of hunt and harvest, love and war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCV6paTXyCU To explain the pictures people made sounds and gestures. To record the explanations they crafted letters representing the sounds. Gestures were called “here,” “there,” and “over there.” Images were called “hunter,” “trees” and “deer.” Things were named “stick,” “basket,” “fire,” etc. Actions had names like “hold,” “touch,” “throw,” “walk” and “run.” To find game to hunt, sentences such as “over there forest deer” were formed. To hunt the deer “stick” became “spear” and “throw” became “kill.” These...
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Free Music

April 13, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments
Episode 585 April 18,2020 i pay for a music service. It is Apple’s iTunes Match. For a fee of $25 per year all of the songs in my iMac iTunes library are made available on all my Apple devices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtUQImH26Bw iTunes Match includes all the songs i have added to my library from CDs and mp3s plus any songs i have bought from the Apple Music store. All the songs in my library are copied to my iCloud account.  If the song i have digitized in iTunes is in Apple’s music inventory the high quality Apple version is streamed to...
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No schedule

April 6, 2020 Uncategorized 7 Comments
Episode 584 April 11, 2020 Yesterday i glanced up at the wall in my garage where the clock used to be. The clock had stopped working and i had removed it from the wall a week ago. i felt for my phone in my pocket to check the time, but it was not there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So0ZrTwf8vI i looked out the garage door to see that the sun was still out. Plenty of time to start another project… i got started, collecting the parts i needed for a new shelf in the shed. With nowhere to go in the morning i sleep...
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Staying Home

March 29, 2020 Uncategorized 6 Comments
Episode 583 April 4, 2020 i am fortunate to be retired in this time of pandemic. Staying home is a natural state for me. Staying home for everyone else has been made easier by the Internet. Work at home programs are possible because of the Internet.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnj2fyjxRw Employees at medical institutions and experts in infectious diseases are the true heroes of this battle against the corona virus. Our connection to these medical experts has been made easier by the Internet. YouTube airs reports from Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has made...
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Reflection

March 23, 2020 Uncategorized 4 Comments
Episode 582 March 28, 2020 Reflection is what bounces off a surface and into my head. My eyes see the light and my brain interprets the patterns. Reflection is what i think when contemplating a memory. My brain recalls the memory and my mind mulls it over. Both kinds of reflections are the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn9bAvWS4RU When i look in the mirror the light shining back at me is reflected off my face microseconds before i see it in the mirror. When i remember a past moment the moment is reconstructed and delivered to my brain for reflection. My iPhone helps...
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