by PJColando | Apr 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
As an avid Beatlemaniac, I have long agreed that the Beatles transformed the world. From men’s hairstyles to social attitudes to musical innovation, their hands touched more than our hearts and their musical instruments. But who knew that the world’s most...
by PJColando | Apr 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I posted about Death and Taxes, the American inevitabilities. It was a scary day for a friend and her husband, which prompted thoughts of such a day in my life. Over 100 days have passed. With some emotional distance, perhaps I can write it out…it was...
by PJColando | Apr 15, 2013 | Purpose
Here it is! The full translation of the famous quote by America’s venerated self-made man, Benjamin Franklin, written to a friend in France in November 1789: “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this...
by PJColando | Apr 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
The winter season has passed and taken its weather with it. Weather happens whether we like it or not, so we grin and bare it. We are blessed in southern California because with weather we most often get to bare it, not bear it. Ha-ha-yeah! As you know we have...
by PJColando | Apr 9, 2013 | Blonde, Purpose
It was the 60’s in northwestern Indiana. Though our small town was proximate to the trials of the Chicago 7 and pre-election riots televised for all to see, we were worlds apart. We lived the idyllic, self-contained, ritualistic life of those close to the land....
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