Notes From A Bear's Journey

      My dog and I see things differently, which seems like a no-brainer, but let me give you a for instance.  It comes in threes is an old "wives" tale with little to no basis, sort of like the "myth" of needing to walk 10,000 steps daily, wrote Psychology Today (it was originally a marketing scheme to sell fitness trackers developed in Japan).  But once such idioms are planted in your mind, they becomes Manchurian in a sense, embedded and difficult to shed, particularly when it comes to bad luck or to bad things happening.  Why is that?  The flat tire or the small ding in the fender is followed by a sprained ankle or a bonk on the head.  Nothing too serious, and often with a bit of time and a bit of cash, you survive and chalk it up to a bit of bad luck (yes, we woke up to that flat tire ).  But when a good friend got a rare form of cancer, one almost always with a bad outcome despite aggressive treatment, it was suddenly in our fa...

       There is much going on in the world today, and more and more of us (it seems) are beginning to voice our opinions, whether it's at dinner tables, town halls, or national protests.  Often the conversation remains civil, unless you're one of those GOP Congress folk now taking their meetings virtual simply to avoid confrontations with their constituents (wait, isn't that their job?).  And the question remains, what makes you upset?  Is it the plummeting markets and that fading hope of retirement; or the debacle that was Signal Gate, or Netanyahu's IDF bombing and burying aide and ambulance workers  and  their vehicles to hide evidence (wrote  The Guardian ; videos of the incident and more at The Rocket Medic ), or the tariffs increasing the prices of goods, or that despite nearly a million people taking part in the Hands Off protests around the world a few days ago, Trump was in Florida playing golf?  And nobody in Congress...