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A short observation on sensory experience and age

  By About me, Music

I really have trouble listening to music while I write now. And that’s because, even though I have always love music love, the intensity of the pleasure I get from is stronger now than it has ever been. Something similar seems to be true for all my senses. They are all duller in some ways than they were twenty years ago. I’m starting to have trouble hearing things and not only am I as nearsighted as ever but I’ve totally lost my near point and have to take my glasses off to see close up. My touch is still pretty good but I’ve started to notice that I can’t pick up quite the level of details on a surface as I once did. But the intensity of my sensual experience is much greater than before. Continue reading

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A eulogy for my grandfather, Frank Stier

  By Family Stories

What I’m thinking about at any one time tends to be massively over-determined, for good or ill. In the last few days I’ve been thinking about the elderly. (I hate the term senior citizens). Partly this is because I’ve been doing a lot of health care events with old folks. Partly it is because my mother-in-law had a stroke last week and I’ve been talking with daughter about grandparents and what they mean to us. And partly its because Ted Kennedy just died and I think of him, as I thought of my grandparents, as someone who passed  a political and moral tradition on to me, not in theory but in practice. I’m a political philosopher and I believe in the importance of theory and reason in politics. But I’ve always believed that my  fundamental commitments come from some place deeper than theoretical reasons, from a way of life that is exemplified… Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23

  By About me

is taking a long walk. # @debraleighscott That creme brulee french toast looks great but could kill me. Let me know when the lo-fat version is ready! # Powered by Twitter Tools. Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16

  By About me

Canvassing for health care reform is in progress in 11 locations around PA Details at http://hcanpa.org # just got home but is leaving at 4:00 am for Williamsport canvass. Join a canvas near where you live in PA: http://blog.hcanpa.org/?p=170 # Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09

  By About me

is just back from DC with good news about a few PA Blue Dogs and about how the right wing is shooting themselves in the foot! # My DN oped on taxing health care benefits. Written before the mob arrived to disrupt real debate about health care http://tinyurl.com/lltg2k # @tomfitzgerald While you were away the “tough sell” health care bill cleared three House committees while polls r still strong # Powered by Twitter Tools. Continue reading

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Quotes from the illustrious dead

  By A political memoir

There are three approaches to life, that of anger, gratitude and laughter. Those who take the path of anger become bad people, who bring destruction on themselves and others. Those who take the path of gratitude become good people, who bring happiness to themselves and others. And those who take the path of laughter become teachers, who teach us about the choices before us. —dead white Greek guy, I think. It’s not enough to follow the Oracle’s injunction to “know thyself.” We must also have the courage to act on that knowledge—another dead Greek guy Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-02

  By About me

ten dumbest arguments against health care reform http://tinyurl.com/ljdyfx # @HCAN: Final push for phone calls: Call 1-877-264-HCAN and tell ur Representative to pass health care before going on vacation! (Pls RT) Continue reading

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The Key to a Useful Life

  By About me, Family Stories

They key to an an exciting and useful life (and one worth examing, too): stifle your fears and put yourself in as many difficult situations as you can, in your work and everywhere else. Continue reading

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26

  By About me

RT CBSNews U.K. Economists Apologize to Queen for Failure to Foresee Credit Crisis http://bit.ly/4gJRuw Shouldn't they be put in the Tower? # @fabriciorodrix phones diaper??? # Continue reading