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Writing as meditation

Men think with their head, with their heart, with their lust. Those are three different voices that often are often in conflict. Our hopes and dreams are often ...

Houston Chinatown lunch

I dropped my granddaughter off at a local community center. She and some classmates are volunteering time to Hurricane Harvey clean up efforts. I went with a fr...

Hurricane Harvey cleanup

This is what I see driving around my neighborhood House after house starting to clean up after Hurricane Harvey. My family was lucky. Water came within a few in...

Alive and well in Houston

I live and work in the south suburbs of Houston. There is a lot of flooding. A lot of neighborhoods are being evacuated. There is also a lot of neighbors helpin...

The Butterfly effect

Sometimes you are born into a family. Sometimes you are invited into one. Everything changes when that happens...

Today's random observation

A radio announcer today noted that today was Mick Jaggers birthday. Earlier I had seen a mention of it being the birthday of noted playwright George Bernard Sha...

Chocolate covered Bacon. Yes, it's a thing

Mystic Desert Bar Chocolate covered Bacon Not for the diet conscious...

Greek Island Sunsets

In my life I have seen thousands of sunsets in real life and thousands more in photos. I never tire of their beauty. Shout out to https://steemit.com/@tuehanh. ...

Seasons change and so do I

Springtime in Ohio. Summer in Ohio Autumn in Ohio Winter in Ohio I live in Houston now but I lived most of my life in Ohio. The 20 years before moving to Texas ...

Good morning from Texas

I am typically up by 5am, even on weekends. My favorite way to start the day is with a morning swim and a cup of coffee by the Koi pond. I am not a religious pe...

Stonehenge

I have been to Stonehenge several times. This picture was taken in 2004. It is one of the worlds most famous prehistoric monuments. There is a lot of speculatio...

Shawn Mendes concert

The granddaughter is a huge Shawn Mendes fan so we agreed to let her go to a concert. I went along as chaperone. I will confess, I wasn't looking forward to it....

China planning to be the world leader in AI

https://steemitimages.com/DQmPGrNEx1zx7GFFDppbDP7yu1uQEUQGUuQNFWLpvtibS7H/2D86697E-40FC-4AEF-B096-82C2B102A2E2-1872-00000134056E3607.jpeg In 2016,China surpasse...

Google dreams

A Google app creates dream images from photos. It was made public in 2015 and enjoyed some short lived buzz. I had forgotten about it until this morning when so...

Route 66 Revisited

The outdoor landscapes of my youth were the green fields of Ohio and the Appalachian mountain forests of Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The desert land...

Up, up and away

. It is a beautiful day for a balloon ride. I have been in planes and helicopters. I have been skydiving several times. I have been to the top of skyscrapers. I...

Colorchallenge Monday Red

It's hard not to be excited by 3D movie glasses...

Learning Mandarin

In one of my first posts, I mentioned that I am learning Mandarin Chinese. I am taking an evening class at Houston's Rice University ( my granddaughter thinks i...

Listening to the music of Matt Haeck

In May we went to a house concert featuring Matt Haeck. I had never heard from him, but I am always open to listening to new music and on the recommendation of ...

Phone App to detect skin cancer

A recent Scientific American article focused on recent advances in deep learning techniques that are revolutionizing advances in machine vision. While the advan...