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Gary Gruber
6h ago
If you are one of a number of readers and subscribers to my web site blog here, thank you for your continued subscribing and reading, always free and will continue so. Some of you have been with me for 10+ years and we’ve gone through lots of changes, sometimes sharing them here and elsewhere, Within […]
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Gary Gruber
6h ago
WHO ARE YOU? Each of us has a name by which we have become known, a name given to us by our parents, a name sometimes chosen at random, or from a list of popular names, sometimes by family traditions, and sometimes with special meaning. In some cultures a name has particular significance with regard […]
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Gary Gruber
1w ago
What follows is a look from 30,000’ and a close up look to see how this affects individuals. Then it’s how the individuals form a collective that in turn affects the bigger picture, back and forth “from both sides now.” After a 60-year career in a variety of settings helping people to learn, grow and […]
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Gary Gruber
1w ago
* Featured photo courtesy of Stefano Bucciarelli via Unsplash.com There is a plethora of information about how our minds and brains function and volumes of research on mental health and mental illnesses. I have tried to take care of my mind as well as my body and spirit and yet, there are no guarantees about […]
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Gary Gruber
1M ago
What are we to make of who we are now, who we have become after years of becoming who we are? Are we who we think we are? Are we who others think we are? Are we some combination of what we have learned and experienced? How have our values, beliefs and actions formed and […]
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Gary Gruber
1M ago
“as the number of messages increases, the amount of information carried decreases. We have more media to communicate fewer significant ideas.” Neil Postman * Photo Courtesy of Kenny Eliason INTRODUCTION: I have been working on a draft for a post off and on for about a week and when it came time, which is today, […]
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Gary Gruber
2M ago
Dear ones, I have watched you with great interest and much love since you were born, followed you through your early years with your parents, and through your first 12 school years, then college and most of you in your first jobs in your chosen fields. I am proud of each one of you not […]
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Gary Gruber
2M ago
(Featured photo: Courtesy of Beth Macdonald) For those of us in our later years, we know what Atul Gawande means as he documents the importance of the quality of life in his book, “Mortality: Medicine and What Matters in the End” Atul talked with Juergen Bludau, a geriatrician, who told him the job of any […]
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Gary Gruber
2M ago
Naming something or giving it a title is a frustrating exercise for me because I want it to be accurate and descriptive. For 12 years, my blog posts had the name BLOG. I know what that means but it sounds like blob to me and now that I am on Substack and get published in […]
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Gary Gruber
2M ago
One day I said to S. “I think we should drive up to Green Valley (AZ) and look at La Posada.” That is a retirement community that offers three levels of living – independent, assisted and final stages including memory care. She said, “You’re not ready for that,” implying the assisted living feature and I […]
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