https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/If I take the time out of my day and night to write on Facebook and then have it disappear in the river of time, why not do it here instead?hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/998962I am not a fan of "pop psych" (there actually was a magaziine with that title!), but it can act as an offramp from destructive thought swirls, and an onramp toward considering the possibility of taking more agency over your own life. Unless you either picked a destructive meme, or just take it as...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/998961"My sign (one of many on my 'fridge), says my remaining days are numbered, so why engage with online strangers who don't care about me, including my leaving comments when more than, say, ten preceded me? PS: I see I'm #43. Ciao all!".;) FACEBOOK. Present company excepted!!https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/998778MAD MAX MEETS KANDAHAR On the upper right corner of the MRAP's radiator cage is a magnetic sticker for the Sacramento band "Hero's Last Mission". I wanted the irony of the sticker and the grittiness of this huge armored truck. Every piece of sheetmetal or plastic in a US version here is heavy...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/998772" For Fanaticism and Ignorance are forever busy, and require feeding". Spencer Tracy's line in "Inherit the Wind", about anti-science leading to censorship, then sectarianismhttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/998771You're in a rowboat, you're offcoast about a mile, when the breeze dies and a peasoup fog rolls in. You cannot hear nor see the shore. "CONCERN" is realizing you have a problem, maybe serious, and it needs to be addressed, sooner than later. "SCARED" is you come to realize, out of 365 degrees you...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/9986061,395 til we reach 1 millionhttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/998529Not one to pick up a book knowing it is going to make me feel sad. But I have now. However (sidebar coming).... it raises a grammatical point. There is a protagonist character whose name is Wolf because he IS a (were)wolf. He resents his family being called wolves or the Wolves". They are the...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/998527It is a real cultural whiplash. My memory develops more leaks over time. I barely remember my time "here" from before, even though I think I was active for about ten years. Certain names stand out. Azure (always had something interesting to say, posts stopped in 2012). Benzinha, who passed away...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/998526Cave Man developed the prosatate gland so the post-reproductive old farts would be walking sabertooth tiger bait, getting up at all odd hours of the darkness, hence acting as a warning alarm to protect the rest of the bunch. Also, to feed the sabertooths.;) ("Saberteeth"?)https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RogerReturns/998524Popularized by author Robert Fulgham. Sometimes that's the marching orders. Stand still. Resist. Don't fight. Be ready. Sometimes it is all you can do. "They also serve who only stand and wait". (John Milton, Sonnnet 17) Gordon Lightfoot wrote and sang: " Does any man know where the love of God...