Posted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 22, 2021 | Admin, Change, Human Nature, Notes | 2 |
… I never ask out to play anymore. But he waits, sleeping under the stairs, armed and ready for cowboys and Indians, outfitted for camping in a cardboard box, rod at the ready in case we go fishing…all the things...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 12, 2021 | Admin, Blog, Change, Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Notes, Self-image, The self | 0 |
…is that we too easily forget who we once were. As we grow and develop–either intellectually or emotionally–we lose (or simply fail to exercise) the ability to remember that we are not the individual we were...
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 4, 2021 | Admin, Change, Contentment, Notes, Passion, Uncategorized | 0 |
…but do move steadily forward. .
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 23, 2021 | Change, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Search, Self-image, The self | 0 |
Most of us know the proverb about the two dogs within us, the good and the bad. We could grow into either. It depends on which we feed. Whether or not it’s that simple, a few things are true enough. Emotions arise from...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 1, 2020 | Change, Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Search, The self | 1 |
…and the inherent difficulties surrounding it. In my experience, discontent arises out of dissatisfaction. The greater (and more pernicious) the discontent, the deeper the dissatisfaction. And the deepest dissatisfaction...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 29, 2020 | Change, History, Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Politics, Society | 0 |
…that humans have evidenced in every society and civilization since we came down from trees: tribalism; otherism; xenophobia; social hierarchy; gender distinctions; religion; violence; mob psychology; group conformity;...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 15, 2020 | Change, History, Modern culture, Notes, Search, Society | 0 |
Last night I watched a documentary covering the early years of the Newport Folk Festival, 1964-66: The great folk performers of the late fifties and early sixties and the thousands of young people who listened to them. A half...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 2, 2016 | Change, Contentment, Happiness, Notes, Search | 0 |
In the end, I think there two basic things doom the average, mentally healthy individual to unhappiness or discontent or mediocrity. For one thing, we don’t understand how much control we actually have over our lives....
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