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section IV.   2022 into 2023       Foreword For F O R W A R D


Harv’s ending LIFE FLOW projection in a previous bucket, that is his death, will finish his life just as his years-old electronic signature finished his mail: “Love to all :) from Happy Harv Otto (H2o) facilitated by HarvOtto.com”  


This blog updated with each week’s life activity Section Four continues his specific post-PhD Functional Organization case study — FunOrg is otherwise known as Theory W in his 1996 PhD dissertation earned in retirement. He retired at age 52 but didn’t realize at the time. Self and humanity study continues his passion (intensity, enthusiasm, suffering). 


His lifetime growth, (made probable by freeing and in spite of doubt), for the personal-vision-sake of joy-love-freeing for self, another, others — is the essential element of Harv’s life flow.

 

For concise life-expression: “Be the good!”.


One proud life actualization for Harv was his O-negative blood donation every eight weeks. For example, 11 gallons were donated in Florida retirement since 2000. That ended in 2022 by Chronic Kidney Disease. 


Use co-operation (with who) as the sweet frosting of life, on top of good functional self-operation. In 2022 he turned to Council On Aging for weekday dining/socialization/cooperation/'computing' activity.


Additional word-muse page about FUNCTIONAL, FREEING, DOUBT, ALIVE, PHILOSOPHY  is currently hidden in this blog site.  Good luck.  But as Benjamin Franklin published in Poor Richard's Almanac, "The harder [and smarter] I [you] work, the luckier I [you] get."


2024 “Look to the better!”.    

 currently reading

  • "The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI"  Kurzweil  2024  https://whollyspirittome.blogspot.com/2024/06/kurzweil-book.html
  • "The Egoscue Method of Health Through Motion" Egoscue 1993
  • "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring ... Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness"  Haidt  2024  Trace mental health cause, specifically the mind's food -- the brain's food being glucose.  (click here for "mind food") 2024may16.
  • "Turing: Enigma: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Cracked The Code" Revell  2017
  • "Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism" Breyer 2024
  • "Thinking, Fast and Slow" Kahneman 2011 1983 1974 click for detail "muse" 3/27/24
  • news media web sites currated --  AP, BBC, NPR, NYTimes, WAPO, CNN, WSJ, Bloomberg, C-Span, Fox, CNET, China Daily, Al Jazeera
  • "The death of expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters" Nichols 2017 2024apr  specifically on the topic "confirmation bias".
  • "Emotional Intelligence" Goleman 1995 2020

recently 'read' 

 movie watched 

  • "The Imitation Game" Tyldum 2014        

2022  Website aim.  

 2022feb26.   For 2023. H2o has satisficed his writer-dream through this blog. If a book comes into his life, it will spring from these posts and pages. In the meantime, the website also sweeps up the leavings/fragments of his life.  

From 2022. This evolved website's aim is to write self-knowledge and awareness (antonym: no-talk),  to direct H2o's future of 'why' life-time in 'wholly' hours, in a wholistically wealth-wise way -- even without knowing how much of his personal time remains; what quality; or where; or with whom.

Some evolvement events. 2022 COA 'computing' activity enables the integration of pix into this blog as WEB SITE 3.0; 2021 Council On Aging (COA) became Harv's life-time effervesce; 2021 Apple iCloud Photos App grew to an impossible 68,933 as of 2022mar14M9pm; 2017 prostate cancer was a life-changer for Harv; 2015 perhaps, changed domain name from HarvOtto.us; 2013 restarted with blogger.com perhaps used HarvOtto.us WEB SITE 2.0; 1996 PhD dissertation 1500 pages as writer/scribbler, life-partner companion close call; 1991 a love-sick loss of a European dance-partner; 1984 introduced to sweaty sex 21-year marriage with three kids annulled; 1983 given the family slides via divorce of 21-year marriage; 1982 mid-life crisis; 1961 began 'life-partnership' marriage and 4000 family slides.



H2o's essence is a smile: regardless of life-time or life-way, where, or who-with. 

Foresight: car-home into year 91.

original personal card

For a second week in 2022, COA ‘computing’ activity has pushed his presence to 4pm some days.  “The mission of Council on Aging of Volusia County is to enrich the lives of our most vulnerable elderly citizens by providing needed services that enable them to remain safely, comfortably, and with dignity in their own homes.”  H2o’s ‘home’ is his car.  He uses the COA service item “Senior Center and Dining Site” from morning into the afternoon [generally many weekdays 9am to 4pm].

He is a ‘COA Local Senior’, an oldest-of-the-old.  The issue of his car being a suitable residence for life expectancy is a matter of Long Term Care evaluation, that is, the ten LTC questions for that year 91: 

? Medication management ? no red flags yet [geriatric PCP input] [Rx via Walmart] [20 13 daily pills sorted each six days],

? Personal hygiene ? no red flags yet [an active COA participant] [anal leakage in control] [two+ hour urinary duration managed],

? Eating ? no red flags yet [COA dining and renal nutrition advice][although high BMI is his #1 medical concern],

? Toileting ? no red flags yet [Silver Sneakers gym available 24/5] [some five hour sleep durations naps suffice both with sweet dreams],

? Cognitive functioning ? no red flags yet [donepezil by neurologist],

? Transfer assistance ? no red flags yet [walker car-stored if needed] [DMV license good into 88th year],

? Body care ? no red flags yet [Silver Sneakers gym available 24/5] higher tech clothes and odor control minimize laundry occurrences,

? Bathing ? no red flags yet [minimum acceptable hygiene Silver Sneakers gym available 24/5],

? Ambulation/mobility ? no red flags yet [walker out/in car still facile] [counting fall #5 to focus prevention awareness] [yearly eyewear],

? Dressing ? no red flags yet [very minimalist acceptable attire] no suit/tie/tux nor daily shave.

Harv is ‘good to go’ for continued car-living,  under the direction of another new PCP, perhaps a dozen all-tolled, dental prophy twice-yearly plus exam yearly, COA 2024+ ... 

it no longer looks this good 😏    but provides its own wi-fi router

World cruise now cancelled: 

why in the first place? 

Answer: simply put, 

seeing ‘the world’ seemed a fitting cap to Harv’s lifetime 

when compared to a culturally indoctrinated retirement of Long Term Care which he won’t afford. He intends to still avoid/put-off a LTC ‘elder-warehouse’ choice. 

Life-excitement persists even without the cruise. 

World-web exploration will now have to satisfice.              "So far so good."