Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 27, 2022 | Admin, Death, Happiness, Human Nature, Mortality, Significance, The self | 0 |
…and also birth, the two truly existential experiences in the life of each of us. Existential, in fact, by definition. Interesting that we obsess about the end of our existence, yet seldom give its beginning a second...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 12, 2022 | Admin, Notes, Self-image, The self, Values | 0 |
After watching the social and political theater of the last half-dozen years, I’ve decided an easy way to characterize people is by their moral compass: Do they appear to have one, and if so, what is their North Star? This...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 5, 2022 | Admin, Contentment, Happiness, Modern culture, Notes, Search, Self-image | 0 |
…specifically, how modern commerce and Madison Avenue have assured that we have too many. That’s not their intent. They just want to sell, and pseudo-innovation is a company’s way of competing, albeit a questionable...
Read MorePosted 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 | 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 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 | Jan 6, 2020 | Admin, identity, Notes, Self-image | 4 |
I’m sitting in my living room and my eye falls on the back of a small rocking chair…dark oak, carved (not pressed), a small nursing rocker I found long ago. I’ve given it away twice, and both times has found it’s way back...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 8, 2018 | Admin, Notes, Search, Uncategorized | 0 |
…the last couple of months, but not so in thinking. When I have long voids, it is usually because I am mentally engaged elsewhere. I will not post here merely for continuity. This lapse has seen me reading (on which I...
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