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I'm okay ....

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 Today is the 5th day of the 16th week, the 16th day of the 4th month, the 106th day of 2026 [ with only 252 shopping days until Christmas ], and: Blue Umbrella Day - focusing attention on the high rate of sexual abuse/violence that an estimated 1 of 13 boys have to deal with College Student Grief Awareness Day Day of the Mushroom - time to celebrate fungi Emancipation Day Foursquare Day or 4sqDay - probably the first social media day that started back in 2010 that encourages using the app to check-in and review places    Get to Know your Customers Day - this happens quarterly.  Always leaves a sour taste in my mouth as it was the phrase used in banking to force the Patriot Act tracking down our throats  International Pizza Cake Day - to make a pizza cake, you actually stack multiple pizzas on top of each other in a cake pan National Ask An Atheist Day - according to Google, the most common question an atheist is asked is what stops them from doing evil  ...
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#SilentSunday 04.12.2026v

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  NASA/Reid Wiseman
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#SilentSunday Easter 2026

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  "Door into summer" posted in BluSky by Jeff Nelson https://bsky.app/profile/brewdude2112.bsky.social
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#SilentSunday 03.29.26v

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  The Aurora Tree Image Credit and Copyright: Alyn Wallace
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2026 Essay camp #4 - structure

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I guess it is obvious by now that I am very confused about the differences between a blog, a journal, and an essay - the latter sounding far more impressive and slightly intimidating with a far more easily discernable structure.  And yet, many essays are still quite personal, especially the reflective or lyrical ones.  The structure is the same as a musical composition or news story - introduction, content, conclusion.   I've played about with different formatting, but have settled into a pattern.   For introductions, I write about the point in time that I find myself in:     Today is the 6th day of the 13th week, the 27th day of the 3rd month, the 86th day of 2026                          [ sometimes      rather whimsically adding how many shopping days until Christmas as an aside ]  I then proceed to anchor myself even more firmly into the timeline by ...
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2026 Essay Camp #3 - I remember Jay

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 Today is the 5th day of the 13th week,  the 26th day of the 3rd month, the 85th day of 2026, and: Epilepsy Awareness Day - you are supposed to wear purple so you can start conversations and dispel common myths about the condition.  I was surprised to learn that dogs suffer from this too as my daughter's poodle has to take preventative medication  Independence Day - Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971 Legal Assistants Day Live Long and Prosper Day -  celebrating Leonard Nimoy's birthday National Equal Pay Day National Make Up Your Own Holiday Day National Science Appreciation Day National Nougat Day National Spinach Day Prince Kūhiō Day - celebrates the birth of the prince and the passage of the Hawaiian Homelands Act    Purple Day - I'm wearing green so I blew that one Solitude Day Spinach Festival Day and Voyager 1 is currently ~23h 32m 20s of light travel time from Earth Quote of the day : " The key to immortality is first living a life worth remember...
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2026 Essay Camp #2

 Today as I walked from my car to the office, I heard the sound of the train, clacking tracks and sounding its whistle. And I cried - it always makes me cry now And I once again prayed that my choice on the night of June 25th last year was the right one.   Tommy had his final seizure around 3PM.  Bryan, who was staying in the hospice room with him notified Gem and I that it was bad, really bad.   At that point, I could've dropped everything and rushed to Nashville.... And I didn't.   I was afraid that if Tommy knew I was coming, he would hold on until I got there, and I didn't want him to do that, even knowing it was one of those irrevocable choices that would haunt me.  I feared if Tommy thought I [ and maybe Gem too ] was on the way, he would've kept struggling and I knew he was so tired and was afraid of missing his door to the Boardwalk [ which was coming on a train in his vision ], and I didn't want that. By 8PM Tommy was in a light coma...
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