Posted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 18, 2021 | Blog, Death, Modern culture, Notes, Society | 1 |
For a few days on my current road trip, I stayed in the house of a friend in DC while she was away. It was an older house, born in the early fifties, same as me. The upkeep had been gradually overwhelming her…yard...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 12, 2021 | Change, History, Modern culture, Notes, Science, Society | 3 |
When I was 20, late summer and fall of 1972, I worked for a contractor setting up mobile homes in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Hurricane Agnes had enticed the Susquehanna River to overflow its banks the night of June 23rd,...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 12, 2021 | Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Meaning, Modern culture, Society | 0 |
…in our lives, our day-by-day and hour-by-hour lives. In our aboriginal existence, we were like our fellow animals, always on the watch…against hunger, predators, toxic insects or plants, unfriendly tribes. Who had...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 4, 2021 | Admin, Change, Contentment, Notes, Passion, Uncategorized | 0 |
…but do move steadily forward. .
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 11, 2021 | Admin, Human Nature, Notes, Search, The self | 0 |
… are twenty-five 2 year-olds trying to get out. (Cue audience laughter) I don’t know who first said this, and I presume it was in jest. But they spoke much truth as well. Inside each of us are several two-year-olds,...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 30, 2021 | identity, Notes, Self-image, The self | 2 |
Here is my model for my inner self. When I turn inward, I see two individuals. Call them whatever: left and right, doer and dreamer, Frankie and Johnnie…it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that they are very...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 28, 2021 | Admin, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Self-image, The self | 0 |
…make something happen, or watch? Or just hope someone got the plate number of the car that hit you? .
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 28, 2021 | Creativity, History, Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Society | 0 |
I’m reminded of the “three kinds of people” adage: some make things happen, some watch them happen, and some wonder what happened. The “makers of happenings,” stand apart. They have a spark, a...
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