Retired hippie blogger, Bay Area sports enthusiast, Pisces, music lover, songwriter...
Life is precious and our health is so fragile. Don’t waste a single moment of your life when you can enjoy both. So many people take their health for granted and think they will live forever, and be forever young.
By John Whye3 years ago in Families
Now that summer is officially here, a lot of visitors will be coming to San Francisco. Many will be repeat visitors because San Francisco is one of the most beautiful, widely visited, and wildly popular cities in America.
Alcatraz is a beautiful island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Most people remember it as the federal prison that housed famous inmates like The Birdman of Alcatraz, Al Capone, the notorious Chicago mob boss, and George “Machine Gun” Kelley. (The original gangster, not the rapper.)
Everybody has two different personalities in life. One is our outside personality, the one we present to the world. We are usually more formal, more dressed up, suits and ties and fancy dresses for work, hair and makeup and jewelry just so.
By John Whye3 years ago in Motivation
Empty nest syndrome has been described as that feeling of grief and loneliness parents experience when their children leave home for the first time to live on their own because of a job offer or to attend college. It is not a clinical condition, but it is a definite psychological adjustment.
Have you ever had to deal with a snob? Somebody who thinks they are better than you because they are richer or more educated? Somebody who looks down on other people because they consider them inferior? Somebody who thinks their social position makes them superior to other people?
By John Whye3 years ago in Humans
The last time my daughter and grandson visited me for a short vacation in between covid onslaughts, we took the obligatory trip down Lombard street, the “crookedest street in the world” and visited Coit Tower. But our main emphasis was North Beach.
By John Whye3 years ago in Poets
The Butterfly Effect is the theory that the smallest things can set a whole chain of much larger events into motion. It is a metaphor, an illustration that everything is interconnected and that the smallest thing, like a butterfly flapping its wings, can have an effect on much larger events.
By John Whye3 years ago in Earth
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of anti-immigrant sentiments being espoused in the media. America has always been a nation of immigrants. We are supposed to be a melting pot, not a country club for members only, with all the attendant exclusionary bylaws and freebies only for the privileged.
By John Whye4 years ago in The Swamp
Do you take the weather for granted? Just regard it as a ho-hum minor detail? Like if it’s cold, should I wear an extra layer of clothes, a heavier coat? If it looks like rain, bring an umbrella? If it’s snow, time to break out the real heavy cold-weather gear, maybe some warm boots? I used to be that way too.
By John Whye4 years ago in Psyche
When all is said and done, and we all shuffle off this mortal coil into the next stage of our existence, we will all only be remembered by the love of others for us. In their memory of us, locked deep inside their minds, we can all gain a measure of immortality.
By John Whye4 years ago in Families
How do you measure a lifetime? How do you reach inner peace and harmony within yourself? How do you get to the point where you feel that you have done all the good things, all the right things, that you could have done, and then did them?
By John Whye4 years ago in Humans
