War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Coffee as liquid concept, and myself a low-bred java connoisseur, didn’t start until middle age — although consumed on a daily basis all my adult life, a great deal of the time even drinking ‘instant,’ I seemingly never consciously paid attention to actual ‘coffee‘ until the early 1990s. Despite what I ‘thought‘ my body told…
Clear-bright and chilly this Friday morning on California’s north coast with a fairly-decent rainstorm slated for this weekend. And more cool temperatures with the storm, too, as a low pressure shifts southward from the Gulf of Alaska and brings showers to the region — appears as if the season is indeed coming upon us. In…
Personal involvement this morning in a national freak-out — more college violence, the latest at the University of California Merced, located about 60 miles north of Fresno, with five wounded, the attacker shot by police and later died. In this case, instead of a shooting, the incident was a stabbing. Three victims were treated on…
According to Wikipedia, “middle age” as that ‘…period of age beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age.’ In birthdays, your 40s, and early 50s, a stretch supposedly where you get a last, great grasp at living before the home stretch. And in my particular case, that time frame was way-not bad at…
Bright sunshine curdled by a chilly breeze this early Friday afternoon on California’s north coast — clear sailing supposedly until Sunday with another rain-front expected, and more cool temperatures. In this particular age of much-ado ‘political correctness,’ comes an odd/normal study of how humans actually physically touch: As expected, emotionally closer individuals in inner layers of…
Until just recently, marijuana had been considered outside the bubble of reality, playing on the edges of society, despite pot’s huge following, and maybe next year it will be actually legal. A longtime-a-coming last Friday, Gov. Jerry Brown okayed rules for all aspects of the weed industry, from the growing, to the shitload of by-products,…
Sunshine this Monday afternoon on California’s north coast with a fog bank drifting in place just down the street, creating cooler temperatures than yesterday — overall, however, we’re shooting mostly for good weather for awhile. In the context of shooting, hard to fathom the National Rifle Association actually existing, one of the most-horrid organizations in…
Warm sunshine tempered by a chilled Pacific breeze this Friday afternoon on California’s north coast, with nearly-clear skies and a sunny look to the weekend. In the ongoing enlightenment of the wonderous marijuana plant, another study on its health benefits, too. Via a news release from McGill University Health Centre last Tuesday: They found that…
In a sense within my own personal space, cocooned as it were in time, knowingly-conscious right now in the nowadays, a reflective mirror via Miss Emily Dickinson: “Wonder — Is Not Precisely Knowing” Wonder—is not precisely Knowing And not precisely Knowing not— A beautiful but bleak condition He has not lived who has not felt—…
Overcast skies highly-influenced by a persistent marine layer this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — a hint of sunshine every-once-in-awhile, but mostly just a gray landscape. Internal perkiness, though, is easily swallowed as today is supposedly National Coffee Day, albeit I celebrate it on all days ending in ‘y.’ Add to the caffeinated observance…
