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What to do With the Rest of My Life…
Let us suppose, for the purpose of conversation, That I will live no longer than did my father, A few days past his eighty-seventh birthday. I am now less than half-way past seventy-eight. No, no, I feel perfectly well. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Brahms, Conrad Pavellas, death, Gardening, life, retirement, The News, weltschmerz, work, Writing, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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The Purpose of Life is …
… to Live! This has been verified, once again, through my listening to Alan Watts, may he RIP, while I exercised on a machine that emulates cross-country skiing—something I haven’t done, other than on the machine, that is. Watts verifies the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Watts, Berkeley, Cuban Missile Crisis, G.K. Chesterton, life, living, Norm Breyfogle, U.C. Berkeley, Ulvsundasjön, USSR
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The Pavellas Perspective 