The Little Words Mean the Most

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Scientists unravel US conservatives' DNA

 

Keep as much as you can.

Put people in their place.

Life is a zero-sum game: your win, my loss.

Great Barrington, MA: messages, home of the FABULOUS Berkshire Independent Film Festival; envied by Westport, CT

 

 

Upper left: Dangerous to visit with a credit card, Karen Allen Fiber Arts (yes, THAT Karen Allen, the film star). She also designs and sells breathtaking, dramatic, exquisite, unique clothing. Simone walked out with a bag full.

So, 700 fundraisers walk into a room #dfwphilcon

 

 

 

Yes, that rumor's true. They had to lure me off stage with a beer. Like you'd be willing to give this up?

places i have been

 

 

A hardworking pronoun takes a vacation

 

 

 

The first time I met Donald "F. for Failure" Trump was in

  

Park City, UT.

 

It was a fundraising conference for Planned Parenthood affiliates across the U.S. The big, first debate was scheduled. An open beer/wine bar was contracted. Remember?

Security was tight. No name badges beyond the conference meeting rooms. When you went into town, GO anonymously.

Planned Parenthood reasonably, pragmatically assumed there might be rogue shooters, based on recent attacks, scouting ideological  "opponents," AKA innocent victims, willing to stab and END the life of someone "he, the bombshell" KNEW disagreed with his opinion, held in the name of some Almighty God or Greater Nation we explain and interpret and market.

 

Allelujah. I pray a lot myself.

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It's mid-November.

The Republican presidential "debates" are almost here.

Unless you're alpaca by species, any walk into Park City from a so-identified "nearby" resort  will be brutal. The kind of cold wind that strips muscle from arms, leaving bare white bones.

Park City exists for skiing, no other special reason: winter sports, gravity, steep slopes, deep snow, money. Philosophy sometimes follows.

The Sundance movie festival, where some of the biggest story-telling talents on earth first come to light, founded by Robert Redford, headquarters at Park City. My pretty-close-to-some-kind-of-genius nephew, Daniel Joyaux, works for Sundance annually. (all my neices and nehphews are geniuses until proven innocsent)

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 The Alzheimer's Hiking Club

It formed after GPS became a pretty sure thing.

 

 

"A manwhoneedsnolabel" AFP Dallas/Fort Worth "Executive Conversations" evening @

 

Hope Cottage, Dallas, TX

TOO FOCUSED ON BBQ? at DFW airport, past security, gate 34; I almost missed it, last flight out of Dallas. Nonstop from BOS to DFW, is an obvious silk road . tOO strong? tOO late?

 

 

 

That's Ashley and her twin, chief revolutionaries at RIUDL