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Letter From Estero

A letter from Estero It is the 29 th of September here in Estero Florida. The last two weeks, the mornings have been glorious. We sit outside the...

Ancestors were immigrants

Immigrants like our own ancestors More than 150 years ago, many of my ancestors emigrated to America, seeking a better life for themselves and their...
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Treachery at Wuhan

Chapter # 11 Beating Them up on the Beach - from the novel "Treachery at Wuhan"- Joseph Xavier Martin As Jack Martin’s team was settling into the...

"At Your age."

It happened during a routine visit to a cardiologist, to clear up some nagging issues. Like most doctor’s visits, the conversation drifted into life...
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Fragile Technocracy

I was driving down Sheridan Dr. in Amherst, New York. I was stooped at a red light, idling the car and musing. I happened to look at the car in the...

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24 of my comments have received 24 Great Feedback votes

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Short answer. "It is."  

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

Short answer. "It is."    Thanks for reading and commenting. We are who we are now. We maybe whom we thought we were in our past. We hope that we will be what we aspire to be in the future. And in the greater scheme of things, no one will...

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Posted in Looking for yesterday

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                  That  is a

Posted on Wed, 16 Apr 2025

                  That  is a good observation,Insert. And norrmally, I would employ a summery like this as a denouement at an ending. What I wanted to do, was to clear and set aside  a whole matrix of succeeding families, who are actually real...

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Posted in Vancouver- City of Adventurers. Ch. # XXI

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Airy,

Posted on Sun, 07 Jul 2024

Airy,

I have always placed my faith in the common sense, decency and wisdom of the average voter. They have the right values and usualy follow through with them at the ballot box.

Now, I don't know what to make of the evil one's...

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Posted in Agism or chicanery?

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We do Insert, but sometimes

Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2024

We do Insert, but sometimes we forget "thingamajig." :(

JXM

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Posted in Forgetting something? Just say London Bridge.

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Interesting sketch, Paul. I

Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023

Interesting sketch, Paul. I am reminded of Wolfe's dictum, "you can't go home again." Principally, because it isn't there any more. The river of time has carried away alll traces of that remebered visage. New people and new lives inhabit the time...

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Posted in The Other Side of Paradise

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Thoughtful piece, Penny. I

Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2023

Thoughtful piece, Penny. I could almost see the young lad materialize and talk with the young Miss. I wonder if she ever came back by herself to continue the conversation?

JXM

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Posted in "Hug-a-lass"

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Great portrait of the lads

Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2023

Great portrait of the lads ata school, Paul. I could almost see Mr. Chips in the background, wishing the lads well.

JXM

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Posted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part One of Two)

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Interesting observation, Ewan

Posted on Tue, 22 Nov 2022

Interesting observation, Ewan, We explain their audacity and their clueless state of understanding abhorent behavior with the saying "You can't shame the shameless." It is an awful confluence of nuanced messianic vision, outsized egos and avarice...

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Posted in Remembering John Fitzgerald Kennedy- 60 years later

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verbal portrait worthy of a Winslow Homer

Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2022

Great verbal portrait, Paul. I could "see" what you described as well as feel the wind and the ocean spray sweeping across the moors on a chilly dusk. Winslow Homer tried to capture what you have written and did so artfully, as you have done. A...

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Posted in The Artist of Swanage Downs

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I couldn't summarize it any

Posted on Sun, 29 May 2022

I couldn't summarize it any better, David.

Thanks,

JXM

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Posted in Novel solutions on gun control

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