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One highlight of June for me was having Del home all month. She likes to think of herself as semi-retired or a retiree in training. At a restaurant recently she received her first Senior Discount since she turned 55 last April.
The other highlight for June was my visit to El Paso with Roméo and Vickie, who had me as guests in their home in the high desert. I learned that I must boil artichokes about twice as long as 3000' elevation as I do at sea level here among the good mountains of New Orleans. One of those good mountains just passed over and cooled the mid-day temperature to 80 degrees. Other friends that I made in El Paso: Derek Starr, Lorena Castro, and Carol Vaccariello, among others.
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Memoirs written by the famous cartoonist that created “Li’l Abner” – a daily comic strip for over 43 years. Before Charles Schulz and “Peanuts” there was Al Capp and “Li’l Abner.” Read how Al coped with the loss of his leg with a bulky and squeaky wooden prosthesis that scared the girls away.
Al Capp is my all-time favorite cartoonist. I began reading him in the New Orleans Times-Picayune at my grandfather Clairville Pierre Matherne's house when I visited there during summers in the second half of the 1940s. It's hard to find a cartoonist with the breadth of drawing skills, imagination, and creativity of Al Capp today. If that wooden leg bound him to the cartoonist table, that railway car accident was one of the most fortuitous in the history of trolley cars and cartoon history, in my opinion.
In this small book Steiner takes us through the three processes of perceiving the spiritual world: Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition. He closes with a brilliant song to freedom:
[page 60] “Freedom! Gentle and truly human word, you hold within you all that is morally favoured, what does most honour to my humanity; you make me subservient to none, you do not merely establish a law, but wait to see what my moral love itself will come to recognize as law, seeing that it feels unfree in the face of any law imposed on it.”
I reviewed this book in 1996, but due to an oversight, it had never been published on-line, up until now. This is the basic overview of all of Steiner’s work. One should read this book early in one’s study of Steiner and read it again after one learns all about his work.
May, 9, 2007 NOTE: I did read it again and my new review of this book takes about 150 pages. You can read it at this link here:
This is a thought-provoking science fiction novel set a thousand years into the future in which human life has been indefinitely extended, or has it? Is Proteus male or female? Will he and Lydian live together as male and female, female and female, or male and male, and who will choose which sex? Why did Mom drop the tray? What function does 911 play in the 31st Century? What is reality anyway and does it matter?
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In 2011, its tenth year of existence, the doyletics website will top the EIGHT MILLION VISITORS MARK ! ! !
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As of February 1, 2012 we have received over 8.8 MILLION VISITORS to the Doyletics Website since its inception in August 1, 2001, over TEN YEARS AGO.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: With the new Urchin Logs after an Earthlink Upgrade, our numbers seemed to have fallen dramatically, and it was hard to tell if the new numbers were simply wrong or if the old numbers were artificially high. To complicate matters, the engineers worked for the entire summer to get the Urchin logs to begin to work, and they were undependable until mid-September, 2011. It appears to have started working again in October, but full data seems to take a month to arrive. By January, the data became dependable again, but Urchin has redefined what constitutes a Visitor and that is what has caused the apparent fall in Visitors. With eleven years of data, I know that my Hits to Visitors ratio was 10, using with the previous definition of Visitor as a connection by someone who is not returning within 20 minutes. Now the ratio has risen to 20X because Urchin has redefined a Visitor as a Unique first visit by someone. I have adjusted for the change in Visitor definition, and my Daily and Monthly Adjusted Visitors will continue to rise as they have in the past with no discontinuity.
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My reviews are not intended to replace the purchasing and reading of the reviewed books, but rather to supplant a previous reading or to spur a new reading of your own copy. What I endeavor to do in most of my reviews is to impart a sufficient amount of information to get the reader comfortable
with the book so that they will want to read it for themselves. My Rudolf Steiner reviews are more detailed and my intention is bring his work to a new century of readers by converting his amazing insights into modern language and concepts.
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