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Where in the world

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is this Christmas tree это Рождественская елка at a friends house down the street from me USA

you can't blow your nose on an email

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As a kid old I used to jump on large rolls of paper piled ten feet high. Later in life I got a job slitting rolls of paper this size.  At IBM in 1995 it was announced   no more paper .  Read an article about the future of paper. Source  theguardian.com   By   David J Unger

Take your children home

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The first bit of advice he got was  don't take off your shoes Take your children home   Phoebe Snow Source article  By Courtney Tanner     ·  August 06, 2017 Song Source   youtube.com -->

Both Sides Now

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“‘Ifyou make a good marriage, God bless you. If you make a bad marriage,become a philosopher.’ So I became a philosopher.” Joni Mitchell's album was one my first because it made sense.    Sources: www.theringer.com   Getty Images/Ringer Illustration  article  By  Lindsay Zoladz      

Blue face

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What I call my grand children and anyone else with a phone stuck to their face.  Baby boomers used a phone attached to the wall with a chord, had conversations and left the phone behind. 

If you smile they will come

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Sen. John Cornyn(R-Texas), the No. 2 Senate Republican, compared the upcoming schedule to “Groundhog Day.” “We get up and do the same thin gover and over and over again. It's maddening,” he said.

Merry Christmas

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Photo source theatlantic.com

Winter Solstice

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  By   Brad Plumer   and   Brian Resnick     Updated   Dec 21, 2017, 7:53am EST Winter Solstice article from Vox

Mountains

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An imitation of nature Software Bryce 7 Pro

Merry Cristmas

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To ALL
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Joy to the world

A bird in the thicket

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Is there a bird there Hidden in the thicket Unseen by most There lies a bird He is there See bird See bird See If we look we can see Do you see I do

Yet another desk shot

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Early three megapixel Nikon with wide angle lens - the first digital cameras of any worth were pricey  some better than others  attaching a good lense to any camera makes a  difference  phone cameras are software versions of hardware (glass)

Look to see or see to look

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Your taxes

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Gold standard  to silver standard  to paper standard  to flimsy promises   God bless America Source op ed columnist    David Leonhardt   OCT. 29, 2017 nytimes.com

Palestinian Delegation

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  Read    573. A particular area for discernment on the part of the lay faithful concerns the choice of political instruments, that is, membership in a party or in other types of political participation. A choice must be made that is consistent with values, taking into account actual circumstances . In every case, whatever choice is made must be rooted in charity and tend towards the attainment of the common good[1200]. It is difficult for the concerns of the Christian faith to be adequately met in one sole political entity; to claim that one party or political coalition responds completely to the demands of faith or of Christian life would give rise to dangerous errors. Christians cannot find one party that fully corresponds to the ethical demands arising from faith and from membership in the Church. Their adherence to a political alliance will never be ideological but always critical; in this way the party and its political platform will be prompted to be ever m

We live in boxes

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We die in boxes  are born and placed in a box grow up in boxes  transport ourselves in boxes  this page is sent to you in digital boxes ( packets )   imagine a world without walls   it may never happen because we think like the structures that produce thought   biological partitions  this is an example only  

Yoga

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Buddha, wrote:                                                  Start Yoga      "...[T]here is the cultivation of meditative and contemplative techniques aimed at producing what might, for the lack of a suitable technical term in English, be referred to as 'altered states of consciousness'. In the technical vocabulary of Indian religious texts such states come to be termed 'meditations' ([Skt.:] dhyāna / [Pali:] jhāna) or 'concentrations' (samādhi); the attainment of such states of consciousness was generally regarded as bringing the practitioner to deeper knowledge and experience of the nature of the world." (Gethin, 1998, p. 10.) Sources   workandmoney.com   Wiki

What you got on

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your mind

Is it five o'clock

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The stock market is booming at the promise of new US tax legislation  Interest rates are low as debt rises US prepares for war with South Korea as civilians are asked to leave country Technology in most sectors advances  Life on this planet is in a constant state of threat  fear  indecision  Ignorance of moment is futile Were  you alive in 1939 Is it five o clock News sources  various public media   Wiki

Exit

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Interesting face with character

Where do you live

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Diversity contributes to the illusion of living