For now, here’s a link to my YouTube playlists, if you’re interested.  I just got tired of posting to the Other Letter.  I had a good run with this.  This blog has run its course.  I’m not a reporter, I’m not a writer, even.  Yet from time to time, I may post anything that seems pressing, or worth posting (I get a bit of purpose working on this)...

1. If you, or someone you know, has a problem with addiction, such as with alcohol, overeating, narcotics, or gambling, help is available via proven, Twelve-Step programs.  Visit these websites for more information: Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon (if someone you know is a problem drinker), Overeaters Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gamblers Anonymous.  There are more Twelve-Step groups besides these, check your search engine for your affliction.

2. There’s a saying that the only things permanent, are death and taxes.  What would you like your eulogizers to say about you, when it’s your time to go; how should your tombstone read; and even, how would you like your obituary to read?  (Sorry, kinda morbid, but making a point, leave behind a legacy — like love and kindness — however small or local.)

3. When I was a young man, my father told me that in the back of our brain, is our consciousness, our knowledge of engaging life.  Outside of circumstance, we are essentially much, very much, alike.  How this arose, was that a man my father knew, noticed how when I was very young, I wasn’t afraid of strangers.  My Dad’s friend said: “He never met a stranger.”  This was in part because my Dad knew good people, and I may have noticed our similarities, not our differences.  (This story may be a bit of a conceit, but I thought it was interesting.)

4. Karen Carpenter, of The Carpenters fame, passed away at the age of 32, or did she?

5. Ever hear of “Katie Johnson”?  Her lawyer filed a complaint with the F.B.I., regarding D.J. Trump.

6. Hair is not DNA evidence.  It is a follicle’s secretion, it is not made of cells containing cell-blueprint DNA.  There is no such thing as hair cells, hair cannot reproduce, like blood corpuscles can.

7. More proof that we are not just the product of random DNA mutation (as geneticists and evolutionists would propose): ...And we can talk, gees, can we talk (and enjoy music, among a million-plus other activities).

8. Economic slowdowns (such as that caused by government shutdowns), must effect the weather, and slow climate change.  Less greenhouse gas is emitted when the economy slows, travel is at a premium.  COVID-19 was another example of less use of internal combustion engines, and less emission of carbon-based, fossil fuels, and its by-product, greenhouse gases.

9. There is a book called “Silent Spring,” written by Rachel Carson.  It was about how the proliferation of DDT almost made Spring silent.  We may have another silent Spring around here, I just put a squirrel atop my hill.  The birds are not accustomed to these temps, and may join the squirrel atop the hill.  Feed the birds, become a birder, buy some birdseed, put up a bird feeder.  Just saying.

10. We have had enough, repeal 2A.  The Second Amendment kept slaves in check, a third of our Founding Fathers owned slaves, including Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, who owned upwards of one-hundred African-Americans apiece.

11. America was founded on freedom, liberty, and justice for all — such an enviable concept, the standard for the world!

12. Why do DHS Sect. Kristi Noem (ICE queen), Press Sect. Karoline Leavitt (Trump apologetics), and AG Pam Bondi (Epstein files mess), all look like supermodels?  (Highlight names, and search images, with your browser.)

13. Developer’s notes: Ctrl + "u", in most browsers (like my favorite, Opera), will show the underlying code that I used to create this web page.  This is coded with Notepad++, and uploaded to my webserver with Mozilla’s Filezilla.  Ionos is my webhost, and domain name registrar (the “Other Letter” name is registered to an Ionos’ web server, Internet Protocol address, which your Internet browser downloads from, resolves to, when you point to it with your browser).

Have a nice day.  May you have many happy, healthy years ahead.