Month: May 2016

The Rite of Passage

A Rite of passage is a celebration which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society. (Wikipedia) In our society, we have graduation ceremonies for the young and retirement ceremonies for the elders. We march our young ones up with the songs written in the […]

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Past 1,000 hits….

1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it is often written with a comma separating the thousands unit: 1,000. It may also be described as the short thousand in historical discussion of medieval contexts where it might be confused with the Germanicconcept of the “long thousand” (1200). 1000 is the smallest number that generates three primes in the fastest way […]

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Clearing Out the Dust

A gentle rain patters on the roof of my writing hut. Something so soothing to the human breast, the sound of gentle rain, the whispering sleep-sounds of my two canine companions, some quiet New Age music on Pandora.The blog posts, like the piano exercises I used to practice, hopefully, limbering up the fingers on the […]

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