Is it Impossible to Imagine NonExistence? We Suspect it is impossible. While painting butterflies, one dreary, rainy day, our shadows became mesmerized with the rythmic movement of forest trees dancing in the rainy breeze. It’s not often we get along. We found ourself wondering about the great mondo-beyondo should there be such a thing, and our possible...
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Mind Map Fears, Phobias and Bad Memories Away
The brain’s only function is to think, think all the time, nonstop 24-7. What are the odds we think inappropriate thoughts? Somebody’s gotta be the gate keeper – a Control speciality. Control’s motto: Once Controlled, Always Controlled We really must think of a more descriptive name for Control. Thoughts? We’ve settled on General Kala and several others...
Continue reading...Emergency Checklist – Realistic
When the subject of Emergency Preparedness comes up, the usual suspects trot out a plethora of advice on how to survive the upcoming and ever-looming threat of anhiliation: Thousands of government and private agencies claim to be on the ready, just waiting for the ever-emminent calamity regardless the infinitesimally small odds of a major disaster happening at...
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The Brain The primary function of the brain is to ensure survival of the host…you. Cognition From infancy, parents, community, tradition, religion, science, ists and isms and politicians, our brains acquire cognition: knowledge and understanding through learning, experience input from the senses: Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. Fear / Phobia controlled through the process of cognition....
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What is 3-D Thinking? Critical thinking is 3-D thinking. Critical not in the sense of movie critics and bad reviews, but critical as in asking questions and pondering data. Critical thinking happens when you question your own positions and beliefs on issues and events. Most of the time humans operate on auto-pilot, 2-D fast-thinking. This is a...
Continue reading...The Perfect Storm with a Side of Morel Mushrooms – Speech
In our 30’s, we loved to fish and bake our brains in the hot sun in a boat on a lake while playing guess and by golly with striped and bugle mouth bass. It’s a thrill of the hunt sort of exercise. Most of our catches we would apologize to the fish for the trouble and throw...
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Activities for the Fall Harvest Season – Speech Our 5 to 7 minute contribution to the Hilarity Harvest No-Contest Toastmaster affair back in October 30, 2018. For this speech, we researched to find a few of the more common activities people partake in the fall/Halloween season. Then we envisioned ourself partaking in such activities as an out...
Continue reading...What Is Funny – Speech
Philosophy of Funny, aka Humor Gets a Bad Rap When people are asked what’s important in their lives, they often mention humor. Sense of humor nears the top of the most wanted traits couples want most in a partner. Since ancient times, over 3,000 years, philosophers have claimed dominion over all that is important in life, but...
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You never know when or where the funny bone will strike, so keep your notebook close and pen handy. This joke occurred to me while watching Rise of the Robots on Netflix. notice the effect of the 3-part speech or triangle applies to all types of story, speech, story, tale any topic, especially a good joke. Start out...
Continue reading...Bear Bait
This is the story of our little toy poodle named Puppy and how she became known as Bear Bait. In the year 1988 we purchased a camper van fully contained and we hit the road running. Around the same time we bought the van, Puppy came into our lives. She turned out to be a super friendly...
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