Something to Think About: The Way We Communicate, What We Have Become: Addict-Zombies
An excellent series from the BBC. Click the link below: https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/why-people-are-choosing-to-quit-social-media/p05y8m4l
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Sunday Sundries: Articles That Called to Me
Articles that have crossed my path that I would like to share … From The Atlantic: On relationships, dating, and the strange things that happen: A Catfishing With a Happy Ending: Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—a hoax that turned into an unbelievable love story. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/hook-line-and-sinker/542748/ From The New York Times, a veritable book: Ireland Wanted to Forget. But the Dead Don’t Always Stay Buried. The Lost Children of Tuam by Dan Barry https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/world/europe/tuam-ireland-babies-children.html
Continue reading →On Relationships: The Essence of Love
This morning, over coffee, I came across an article, in Sunday’s the New York Times which resonated with me. If you are on Facebook, you have experienced the innumerable cross-species relationships between animals: kittens and puppies, dogs and cats, elephants and ducks, whatever seemingly bizarre combo you can conjure. We were told when we were kids that love could never happen between differences, that fighting like “cats and dogs” would be a given between those two groups. Little did we know that animals can transcend those “givens,” and that the most incredible relationships can occur when there is an opportunity; … Continue reading →
Red, White and Blue in Black and White: a nonpolitical blog on aging
For those of you who know me, you know I maintain a level of personal privacy. This blog will be different; it will serve to illustrate why my health has been a bit bizarre. I am not allowing public comments on this blog but feel free to get in touch and share your feelings via email. (SansSouciBlogs@gmail.com). As many of you know I have been on a journey, a relationship journey with my elderly mom who is now ninety-eight, whose mind is pretty much intact, who stands up for herself (at about 4′ 8″) and who continues to be one … Continue reading →
Friday Fluff: Are Some Things Meant to Be? The Bashert Factor
Is it serendipity? Telepathy? Coincidence? I often have, as I am sure you do, situations where it’s gotta be more than a coincidence … you run into someone you were just thinking about, a letter arrives, an email, a call from someone who has been on your mind … Last night I heard from someone I had contacted months ago and left a message. The call was returned last night, a few hours after a holiday card was mailed to her saying: I called and left a message, I hope you are well. I knew in my heart of hearts … Continue reading →
397. “I don’t love you anymore. I’m not sure I ever did.” The end of suffering
On Relationships New York Times article Though this piece was written about a spouse, I can relate to it in a more universal way …my take is below. Modern Love Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear By LAURA A. MUNSON Published: July 31, 2009 LET’S say you have what you believe to be a healthy marriage. You’re still friends and lovers after spending more than half of your lives together. The dreams you set out to achieve in your 20s — gazing into each other’s eyes in candlelit city bistros when you were single and skinny — have for … Continue reading →
398. I found My Guardian Angel
This is a topic I’ve always wondered about. The possibility that there is an angel on my shoulder. Yesterday I got an answer. I’d like to believe it. A friend sent me a link to a blogtalkradio program. The guest on the show was a social worker my friend worked with in a school a few years back, Richard Scheinberg Richard discusses a subject from his new book, Seeking Soul Mates, Spirit Guides, and Past Lives.He went on to augment his practice in esoteric studies. He specializes in past life regression. This is something I’ve always thought about doing but … Continue reading →
533. The Pornography of Advertising?: Killing us Softly: Jean Kilbourne
“Even Cindy Crawford would like to look like Cindy Crawford.” This morning I received an email which contained a link to the final video here. After I watched it, I found the previous parts of the video/documentary and decided to post them. As per Wikipedia: “Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. (born January 4, 1943) is a feminist author, speaker, and filmmaker who is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. She is also credited with introducing the idea of educating about media literacy as a way to … Continue reading →
568. Technology 101: On Relationships: Should I divorce Dell and date Mac?
Friends, since the beginning of computer time over at my house, there has been a PC. Or several PC’s. And since the beginning of time I can remember having one catastrophe after another. Dell and I have had our ups and downs. It’s been a relationship filled with passion, angst, hatred, loathing, making up, relief. We have, however, never separated. I got my first Dell, a laptop in 2002, then moved on to a desktop, my work horse, in 2007. I was the first kid on the block to spring for Vista and there were months of angst and the … Continue reading →
31. Age of Love
For a number of Monday nights I have been glued to my television set for an hour watching a pop program, “Age of Love,” which proposes an interesting question. When it comes to couples, does age really matter? The Bachelor: Mark, an Aussie hunk, pro tennis player. Age: 30. The Women: A gorgeous bunch: Age: 40’s. Mark meets the women in their 40’s and is amazed by their beauty, intelligence, spunk, sense of fun, humor and adventure. He has to eliminate one each week and will be left with his dream date/mate. Things get complicated. More Women: A gorgeous bunch: … Continue reading →
19. The Kavorka: either you have it or you don’t
As an admirer of the Seinfeld series, I have watched each episode over and over again; I am never bored. Seinfeld’s genius lies in his ability to view human nature and reflect it, with all its silliness and inadequacies, through the use of a marvelous ensemble cast. Seinfeld manages to weave several mini-themes throughout each main theme, which can best be described as a game of trivial pursuit. But it fascinates us because we all can see ourselves playing out the same ridiculous situations, or perhaps we just like to laugh along—at ourselves. As I was eating dinner this evening, … Continue reading →
561. On love and relationships: observations and segues, religion and Valentines
This morning I came across an article in The New York Times that I felt was an interesting statement in terms of religion and marriage. To be more specific, the Jewish marriage certificate, known as the ketubah is being adopted by non-Jews. The ketubah is an embellished document that has been signed by marrying Jewish couples for centuries. According to the Times, the earliest known version dates to the fifth century B.C. in Egypt. The ketubah is a combination of a work of art and a document; it originally was meant to protect the wife financially in the event of … Continue reading →