Aging Together: A New Way to Avoid Late-Life Loneliness

Barbara Hardinghaus, Aging Together: A New Way to Avoid Late-Life Loneliness Spiegel Online (August 29, 2013)

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The Rockets' Red Glare

Will (American) rockets glare (red) on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington?

• ...while Pres. Obama addresses the 50th anniversary celebrants?

What would MLK, Jr., think?
The drums of war.
In any event, I hope at least that this time there has not been another "intelligence failure."
N.B. Do you think Pres. Obama should try to get Congress to declare war on Syria? (I can't think of another recent situation in which a U.S. President is better situated to try to get such a declaration from Congress: Pres. Obama can hardly object that he needs the advantage of surprise; the whole world knows an attack is coming. [What's that? Oh, you say this attack falls short of being "war"? Mmm. I'll have to think about that. {What if Syria retaliates? Mmm.}])  
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Chapel Hill

I have been here in Chapel Hill for two weeks. Two-thirds of my books are unpacked. My computers are up and running. My massive new printer is up and running. My speech recognition software is working, more or less. I have food in the kitchen. A guy comes in to clean my apartment once a week. Everything is almost OK with the world.
Chapel Hill is pretty. It is very green. The people are friendly. The traffic is not bad. My townhouse is very pleasant. I can soon start working again – that is, I can soon start writing again.

This fall I will work on an evidence casebook. I will also resume work on a legal treatise. Wish me luck.
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Sun in Ultraviolet

Image Credit: NASA/SDO & the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams; Digital Composition: Peter L. Dove

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Liberty Park September 2011

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Liberty Park September 2011

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Speech recognition software

I am experimenting with Dragon speech recognition software (legal version).
I can speak more quickly than I can write.
Can I also speak more intelligently?
You be the judge.
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The Strange World of U.S. "Nonprofit" Organizations

"[E]fforts to insulate the [Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation] from potential conflicts have highlighted just how difficult it can be to disentangle the Clintons’ charity work from Mr. Clinton’s moneymaking ventures and Mrs. Clinton’s political future, according to interviews with more than two dozen former and current foundation employees, donors and advisers to the family. Nearly all of them declined to speak for attribution, citing their unwillingness to alienate the Clinton family." Nicholas Confessore & Amy Chozick, Unease at Clinton Foundation over Finances and Ambitions, NYTimes (August 13, 2013).

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The Trauma of Ordinary Life

"Trauma is not just the result of major disasters. It does not happen to only some people. An undercurrent of trauma runs through ordinary life, shot through as it is with the poignancy of impermanence. I like to say that if we are not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, we are suffering from pre-traumatic stress disorder. There is no way to be alive without being conscious of the potential for disaster. One way or another, death (and its cousins: old age, illness, accidents, separation and loss) hangs over all of us. Nobody is immune. Our world is unstable and unpredictable, and operates, to a great degree and despite incredible scientific advancement, outside our ability to control it." Mark Epstein, The Trauma of Being Alive NYTimes (August 3, 2013).
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