Contents
Writers
Bourdain
Cooper
Leerhsen
Otto
2024feb18. Otto. News curation is not writing -- but call it a start, acknowledged to appear chaotic (previously labeled scribble), yet worthy of thought -- call it partial fulfillment of Harv's eleventh Spirit Command -- "Spirited people are open, work hard, talk, and write". Throughout this web-site, the reader can see sprouts of a writer -- although use of hi tech tools may never be considered as traditional 'book' writing. Most likely, this is why he calls this work his tome, not a book attempt, although this blog's Footnote could be read as chapters of a book. Pulled from front page.
2024jan14. Crombie. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/arts/television/peter-crombie-dead.html
Crombie was born on June 26, 1952, and grew up in a neighborhood outside of Chicago. His father was an art teacher, and his mother taught home economics, Ms. Kijner said. Crombie trained at the Yale School of Drama before moving to New York. Crombie and Kijner met in Boston in the late 1980s before marrying in 1991. Though they divorced after about six years of marriage, the two remained friends. “He was like a rock,” she said. “He was someone you could always call and lean on.” Kijner said Crombie is survived by a brother, Jim. She said Crombie stepped back from acting around 2000, and worked on his other passion, one of which was writing. The comedian Lewis Black commemorated Crombie on social media, calling him a “wonderful actor” and an “immensely talented writer.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807855/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr "Threshold" is the story of a former concert pianist struggling to free himself from a self-imposed exile inside his dark, austere apartment. Briggs hasn't been outside in four years. Haunted by the tragic death of his daughter, he lives each day exactly like the preceding one, compulsively performing his daily routines-making his meals, scrubbing the floor, writing in his notebooks, as well as playing Jenga with an odd visitor named Heaney, who never tires of hounding Briggs about his shadowy existence. On this particular day, all the pressures on Briggs-his terrifying dreams, another testy encounter with Heaney, the ominous, periodic ring of the telephone, plus the devastating memory loop playing in his head-combine and push him to the breaking point. Will he be able to make his peace with the past, and take that first step across the threshold, back into the light?—Peter Crombie Genres: Short (Runtime: 15 minutes), Drama. Release date: March 11, 2006 (United States). Budget: $4,500 (estimated).
2023dec29. Otto. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/best-website-builder/
2023dec07. Otto. Discarded what was left of (1) A Manual For Writers Of Term Papers, Theses, And Dissertations (1937-1987) Turabian, (2) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (1982), (3) 26 essays of The Compact Reader (1984) Aaron, (4) College as Academic Blossoming (last noted 05nov1998) Chapter 7: Becoming an Information-Literate, Self-Reliant Learner, Suggested Activities: 1. Write 2. Write 3. Write, Suggested Readings: 1. All of the assigned readings in your classes. 2. All of the recommended readings in your classes. 3. The textbook in your freshman English course. 4. A daily newspaper. 5. Anything you can get your hands on.
2023july04.
In 2022, the first self-critique of Harv's writing was to use of the phrase 'cryptic scribble' (with standard dictionary definition applied to each of those words). However, a "amateur" definition does carry some of the 'scribble' connotation. Amateur: noun: 1 ... nonprofessional, nonspecialist, layman, layperson; dilettante, dabbler, putterer, trifler; enthusiast, devotee, fan, … lover; informal buff, ham. ANTONYMS professional. 2 ... informal bodger. ANTONYMS expert. adjective: 1 ... non professional, nonspecialist, lay; dilettante. 2 they may scoff at others' amateur efforts: incompetent, inept, useless, unskillful, inexpert, clumsy, maladroit, gauche, blundering, bungling, bumbling, amateurish, botched, crude; British informal bodged.
Harv's "flavor of writing style" puts it out of the strict definitions of Business and Academic writing as presented below. Harv's writing, with instant publishing, which developmentally forces disipline, is maverick, and per usual, he doesn't 'fit in' to some norms. Thus Harv has developed an individualized writing style within the available Blogger software.
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2022dec08.
ABSTRACT
From a summary of writing-styles .(Google 2022oct12W10am), Harv initially chose to aim at the academic writing style - simple, easily understood language ; concise and clear ; a lot like business writing ; let [ideas] be complex only when they need to be.
Arrival as writer
Another writing idea -- be it "not nonsensical", that is, sensible. A sensible writer can be called : astute, down-to-earth, intelligent, judicious, logical, practical, prudent, rational, sane, shrewd, sober, wise, all there, attentive, au courant, aware, canny, cognizant, commonsensical, conscious.
Conscious about an H2o life-way juncture 2022oct12, a life-pause occurred — for the future, Harv saw no next-life-activity demanding immediate attention. His setback of web-sites dysfunction had made an amazing super recovery — additionally, an earlier revelation named George occurred. George presented a life-pause realization of Harv's life-slack retirement being: (1) a lazy philosophical step occurred in Harv's 84th year on his way to “George’s 93rd year”, where George describes the 84yo to 93yo journey as one of developed laziness — lazy being the image of advancing elderliness; (2) perhaps of coincidence, H2o’s Plant-Based-Diet function wrestled with his life-long ice cream tradition, thus associating a long-held life-way aim BMI reduction as a mantra of physical/mental health-control; (3) he transits to winter clothes; (4) he has ended this week’s balloon of 259#-265#; (4) new 2022 eyewear recently attained more conveniently and enjoyably this year; (5) hope is placed in a newly chosen nephrologist to help arrest CKD progression; and (6) no regrets for his recent walk-away from his world-cruise $8000 ‘nonrefundable’ deposit.
This life-pause juncture challenges Harv to ‘write’ -- rationalization of his 'ideation scribble'. His 1996 dissertation was his far-past attempt at writing - the 1400 pages were self-edited and indexed, bound and sent from Kansas to California in fulfillment of a 'mail-order' PhD degree although 'earned' and realized/actualized. Since then, he has scribbled, amassing a million words on his train of MacBook Airs' (to include a 1980 TRS80, a Toshiba portable to Europe and back to the States, an Apple G4, a PictureBook, and a stolen Sony - all as a continuous commitment to his writing life-dream of words ideation).
Harv has come via recent sensical thought, that his ‘scribble’/writing history is legitimate, although subject to continuing traditional and competitive self-discounters, especially from non-writers — thus his personal development-to-date comes together to self-encourage/further his writer-status pursuit, specifically these elements (1) use Google Blogger as a publishing instrument for both blog and tome, (2) avoid dialysis contemplation with his car-life geo-stabilized, (3) his weekday Council On Aging ‘office’ for ‘computing activity’, (4) his earned degrees and college endeavors into college/university academia, (5) the seclusion/peace of in-car living, (6) barely adequate health in his 84th year, handicapped by Chronic Kidney Disease, a self-Dx of death in 2024 dictated by a falling GFR (low of 23) that facilitated cancellation of a reserved nine-month round-the-world cruise, (7) the subsequent release of cruise-wealth-liquidation-funds becoming a personal challenge for use to enhance his remaining-quality-of-life while writing into 2024 and hopefully beyond, (8) Tmobile unlimited hotspot data use, (9) Rx for the mental clarity Dx for dementia, (10) composition helpers TextEdit and Scrivener, (11) the hope of opening the morass of tidbit writings saved/lost over the years through tsunami-type life-style direction changes, (12) …
What Harv’s writing type is NOT -- NOT-for a singles marketplace, NOT-for-profit, NOT Business, and from below, NOT Journalism etc. And NOT on paper.
For Harv to embark on "writing career 2022-2024", is analogous to his "Sports Career peak 1995-1997 of 5 games nightly, and that writing career orientation he seeks may take the 1982-1997 span of his Sports Career (15 years). His life expectancy is 91y leaving a finishing year of 2029 too soon approaching. He will be busy -- preoccupied with the task.
AMATEUR WRITER ORIENTATION
First -- definition --: writing: n: 1 the activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper and composing text ... 2 the activity or occupation of composing text for publication ... (OAD). Harv's weekly COA 'office' now becomes his "computing/writing activity".
POTENTIAL BOOK TITLES
“A complete self: an 84 year male personal case-study of birth unto death.”
“Playing with W-words (Theory W): Why? Functional Organization — Win Now — Won/noW.”
UNDER CONSTRUCTION below maybe the start of an understanding of outlining
updated 2023jan01U7pm
Blog/tome website publication flourishes
Long in retirement, Harv rekindles as H2o (in honor of his 1959-1960 knighthood by the kid's bowling team that won the men's league with Harv as anchor with bowling fee paid by the bowling establishment where he worked).
His web-site has become more a-book-orientation than a weekly-blog. The website-front-page becomes evermore a model of his lifetime: YOUTHFUL SPIRIT. (segment 1) The website-lead is "Priority Happenings" to focu his lifetime specificity, (segment 2) sums the website parts/segments, (segment 3) "Bucket List", (segment 4) The week's "action Bucket #2" is the current week #'s "Bucket #2" now/actual activity,
The 2022 website became more future-oriented with website-purpose/aim (segment 5), focused on life time and lifetime effectiveness for recycling into his "Happiness Commentary" -- this life-style-cycle will last as long as it lasts - current longevity projection remains y86 2024 death. And, as implied in (6), to purposely fulfill his retirement-life-phase of "writer-career akin sports-career -- until death do-us-part then more." Google's Blogger software seems to fit his cryptic writing/publishing needs. Rewrite also seems to be instantly facilitated -- although not facilitated by instant genius, nor adequate editing.
A "Foreword for Forward" (segment 6) completes the website's first page.
His dynamic life target is optimization of life happiness-feelings of the universal-human-needs as joy, love, and freeing in opposition to sad, hate, and fear -- he moves away, sometime fleeing from those happiness-opposition polarities. (Those polarities are expressed in a graphical display yet to be written here but already ideated for some time. A future link will be referenced.)
In sum -- H2o has a retirement-life-model and he exercises same, plus begins to communicate same in words/writing - hopefully responsibly/effectively - at least to his self for his own use. (Caution -- a few others are becoming curious, or should it be said few others are becoming curious.) Via his literal web-site, Harv accepts/respects (level 1 love), encourages (level 2 love), and challenges (level 3 love) to his fulfillment
update from front page
Writers
documentary “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” and for “Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography.” The two works showed a more complex side of Mr. Bourdain, who had become increasingly conflicted about his success and had in his last two years made his relationship with the Italian actor Asia Argento [pic: Mr. Bourdain and the actor Asia Argento [43yo] attending the ninth annual Women in the World Summit in New York in 2018.) his primary focus. But neither directly addressed how very messy his life had become in the months that led up to the night he hanged himself at age 61. On Oct. 11, Simon & Schuster will publish what it calls the first unauthorized biography of the writer and travel documentarian. “Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain” is filled with fresh, intimate details, including raw, anguished texts from the days before Mr. Bourdain’s death, such as his final exchanges with Ms. Argento and Ottavia Busia-Bourdain, his wife of 11 years who, by the time they separated in 2016, had become his confidante. “I hate my fans, too. I hate being famous. I hate my job,” Mr. Bourdain wrote to Ms. Busia-Bourdain in one of their near-daily text exchanges. “I am lonely and living in constant uncertainty.” Drawing on more than 80 interviews, and files, texts and emails from Mr. Bourdain’s phone and laptop, the journalist Charles Leerhsen traces Mr. Bourdain’s metamorphosis from a sullen teenager in a New Jersey suburb that his family couldn’t afford to a heroin-shooting kitchen swashbuckler who struck gold as a writer and became a uniquely talented interpreter of the world through his travels. Mr. Leerhsen said in an interview that he wanted to write a book without the dutiful sheen of what he called “an official Bourdain product.” Indeed, he portrays a man who at the end of his life was isolated, injecting steroids, drinking to the point of blackout and visiting prostitutes, and had all but vanished from his 11-year-old daughter’s life. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/dining/anthony-bourdain-biography.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-variants-shadow-lda-refined-time-cutoff-30&alpha=0.05&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=919561229&impression_id=a955fd66-3e89-11ed-92d4-25b2da712ed9&index=0&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1®ion=footer&req_id=38563235&shadow_vec_sim=0.3322045367880354&surface=eos-most-popular-story&variant=1_bandit-eng30s-shadow-refined-lda
2023sep03. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/03/magazine/anderson-cooper-interview.html For decades, Anderson Cooper, 56, has been a steady, humane and comparatively calm presence on TV news. But the longtime host of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360°” has recently entered an interesting and, in its way, fruitful period of emotional and professional flux. It started last year with “All There Is With Anderson Cooper,” his podcast about grief. (When Cooper was 10, his father, Wyatt, died from a heart attack; his older brother, Carter, died from suicide when they were both in their early 20s; his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, died at 95 in 2019.) In doing so, he realized how little he had allowed himself to feel the losses and how much more feeling he still had to do. (Accordingly, a second season will air this fall.) He also spent time writing “Astor,” an upcoming nonfiction book about the storied, dynastic American family, which is a thematic follow-up to his best-selling 2021 book about his mother’s storied, dynastic American family, “Vanderbilt.” (The two books were written with Katherine Howe.) On top of all that, he and his colleagues at CNN underwent the brief and tumultuous tenure of its chairman and chief executive Chris Licht, who was fired in June after only 13 months on the job. “It all makes sense in my head,” Cooper says, about the twists and turns of his career. “Though it may not make much sense on paper.” Why I got into this line of work was a direct result of the early losses I experienced. It’s not an accident that I started by traveling to disasters and wars and wanting to be around people who spoke the language of loss. For me, joining CNN was to continue that work. But I didn’t set out to be an anchor. I found that I could anchor and I enjoy it and I like the challenge. But it is different. It’s not the subject matter every night that I’m most drawn to personally, but there are interesting challenges in that. Every night, all I hear are the mistakes I make, and that provides a reason to try to get better, and I’m still interested in talking to people and trying to understand how they see things. But my first book came out in 2006. It was called “Dispatches From the Edge,” and it was about war, mixed in with my brother’s story and my dad’s death. I didn’t write again for 10 years. Then I wrote this book with my mom that was about the ripple effects of loss. (That book is “The Rainbow Comes and Goes,” which was published in 2016 and consists of correspondence between Cooper and his mother.) I didn’t plan to write another book, and then my mom died and I was having kids, (Cooper has two young sons, Wyatt and Sebastian.) and that’s how “Vanderbilt” came about. Then “Astor” was to see if I could write something that’s not directly about my family or experiences but just something I’m interested in.
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| Anderson Cooper, left, in 1972 with his father, Wyatt Cooper; his brother, Carter; and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt. Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images |
2022sep27. Leerhsen. ... a former executive editor at Sports Illustrated and People who has written books on Ty Cobb, Butch Cassidy and a racehorse named Dan Patch. The book has already drawn fire from Mr. Bourdain’s family, former co-workers and closest friends. His brother, Christopher Bourdain, sent Simon & Schuster two emails in August calling the book hurtful and defamatory fiction … One person close to Mr. Bourdain who hasn’t pushed back against the book is his wife, Ms. Busia-Bourdain, who controls his estate. The book’s most revealing material comes from files and messages pulled from Mr. Bourdain’s phone and laptop, both of which are part of the estate. Mr. Leerhsen said he got that material from a confidential source, but added that, “the estate has not objected, and I don’t anticipate any objections.” He wouldn’t say whether he interviewed Ms. Busia-Bourdain, but she is quoted in parts of the book. She said through a friend that she would not comment for this story. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/dining/anthony-bourdain-biography.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-variants-shadow-lda-refined-time-cutoff-30&alpha=0.05&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=919561229&impression_id=a955fd66-3e89-11ed-92d4-25b2da712ed9&index=0&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1®ion=footer&req_id=38563235&shadow_vec_sim=0.3322045367880354&surface=eos-most-popular-story&variant=1_bandit-eng30s-shadow-refined-lda
2006jun12. Otto
“Thoreau and an intensive lifetime” by DocHarvOtto@gmail.com (June 2006)
updated 06-12-06
Wording has uplifted Harv’s life – not directly, but indirectly – by building security of self.
But save as a different file name at the right time – after reviewing this starter file for possible improvements. For example, moving the photo link up the page so as to not delete it prematurely.
For the ease of his life operation, overall writing methodology must be stable, and thus easy, even in its complexity. Introduction and note (1) Harv looks forward to easy and prolific (1) writing.
Updating the writing process may be facilitated here. Beginning with personal human experience processed emotionally. If Harv’s philosophy is universal then joy-sad, love-hate, freedom-fear covers all possible emotions.
Thoreau
As decades pass, the better of history rises to acclaim. For Harv, this smattering of Thoreau parallels the spirit Harv’s web work and his retirement life phase.
"Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last,
a simple and sincere account of his own life . . ." Walden. (www.thoreau.niu.edu).
Harv’s simple and sincere account came into being via his tenth edition.
"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be
as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. . . ." (www.thoreau.niu.edu).
Although Harv ever condenses his asset set, his affairs are far from simple – although Harv’s affairs are straightforward and in that, could be considered simplified even with the integration of higher technology. Perhaps this is the message that Thoreau holds out to Harv – more simplicity.
Thoreau’s family and job-life were very different from Harv’s – Harvard College 1837, helped in the family business, did land surveying, “lectured from time to time”, “he nor any of his three siblings married”, and died early at age 44.
Regardless of the comparison, Thoreau gave rise to followers who took the form of Transcendentalists and Individualists – perhaps Harv fits there.
“My goal, since 1995, has been to
aid people interested in Thoreau and the Transcendentalists.”
Jone Johnson Lewis. (www.transcendentalists.com).
"'Walden' comes to us as a narrative of the time
Thoreau lived in a small cabin near Walden Pond, but
it is primarily an exploration of the concept that
true wealth is achieved most easily by living simply and
wanting little of what money can buy.
Wealth to Henry is time — time to write, to explore Nature,
to be himself, and to enjoy his life."
Richard Lenat. (thoreau.eserver.org).
The above sounds too good to be true to being a fit with Harv’s thinking. Thoreau must have been introduced to Harv in elementary school (or high school) to the point of programming his thinking.
Writing good feeling
Relative to bridge play, Harv continues to not study! His choice of other tasks, besides bridge study, has a message. Harv sees his bridge play among 'elite' as enjoyable in spite of his not knowing whatever. His sociable play becomes the aim, disregarding the more studying that he 'needs' to do. He also needs to ballroom dance, yet he also waylays that play. What is going on with Harv?
Harv speculates in this wording that his self-stature may be complete - he is living in his world on his terms, with a smile and kind words for many 'elite' people. He assertively negotiates the Marco Island social scene and seemingly has nuveau respect from family. Now, Harv's challenge is to cooperate with family, bridge, and dance activities with the support of his minimus asset set. Harv's minimus as-set has played an essential role for the actualization of his family/bridge/dance retirement life operation. He keeps measuring the friendliness of the family, bridge, and ballroom dance groups - looking to continued healt-felt conversations with 'friends' from those groups.
Recently, Harv was pegged as an intellectual - he was surprised. Should he be pleased?
In the past, Harv's mother frequently asked him, "How much education do you need?" Now, his answer is, "All of it!" Harv's intellect seems a curious thing, assuming that education has everything to do with the intellect. In contrast, education can be training - problem solving thinking that is focused to serve the venue of authority.
His adult lifetime was dominated by problem-solving for authority - other-centerdness if you will. That was codependence - an addiction among other insecure-self addictions. In a sense, Harv was dissolutioned that his problems were not being solved. Harv was trained to be self-less and did a 'good' job of it - his mid-life crisis was at 45 and acquaintence Dave was dead at 45. Since then, Harv sees his own death and looks to see the vested interest of authority. He was a super worker. But now Harv sought to become a super self - he needed all the education he could get.
He was incidential among 108 billion humans. PhDs available to him were job training oriented. The church nor the education industry was not interested in educating Harv's self. He took himself through a 1500 page dissertation that identified functional authority - an alternative to informal (peer) and formal (boss and other 'closer' to God) authority.
He was creative. He was a life-long learner. But are not all kids life-learners and self-centered?
Grandchild Lance and Harv went riding their bicycles. They crossed a busy street - Lance went along with the method. After a very productive ride, they came back to cross that same busy street. Lance would have nothing to do with the previous method of crossing. He was trained but simply said, "No." So Harv had to work out another method, which he did, and the two safely crossed the busy street. In general, Lance is being afforded a functional conversational education. He seems to have skipped over, "Why," and went directly to "No!" In his self interest, his surrounding adults intend to add more conversation between his the "No" way and the why. He has a mind of his own.
So too did Harv have a mind of his own. He also began to realize that his free will choices were not really choices, nor did formal authority have any intention of discussing alternatives - it was "their way or the highway". His pastor, his job bosses, and his wife had different words, but the result was the same.
Thus Harv came to choose his own way - single, 'excommunicated', and retired at age 51. Interestingly, he has been making a round of tax-free gifts to his three kids as a pre-death wealth distribution. He continues to choose weird things along with the absolutely weird thing of having low financial needs. "He's nuts", you say.
Now enter Thoreau - an acclaimed whatever.
After the above review of Thoreau's life, Harv wonders about Thoreau's followers as Transendentalists and Individualists.
Harv being a life long learner in the spirit of Hoeffer, Harv looks at these individuals and sees himself as unique as well. Not that that deserves written documentation, rather that that uniqueness needs to be written (logiced) so that Harv can feel more secure in choosing his future - his front web pages have developed that future jumping off point.
Perhaps there is one 'myth' that Harv needs to dispel from his training - that of a lady life partner, as in cooperation, as opposed to codependence facilitation or care giving, mostly in silence, and definitely the avoidance of writing.
Perhaps Harv is just the same as all the other silencers - not talking about sex, death, marriage, or religion. He reads non-fiction rather than fiction (the defining word). He busies himself with inexpensive entertainment - but entertainment nonetheless. For what matter or meaning? He being just another chooser with perhaps THE singular definitive - HE HAS FOUND HIS SELF while holding it without harm to others.
Turning to being fully human, Harv takes his self-center on his remaining life time journey. He has position aims.
His no-wealth position relieves him from a lifelong and life shortening male responsibility. His future social cooperation will not be based on wealth.
In April 2006 he had a super health clinic event. He may or may not continue that position.
In June 2006 his personal card has finally solidified at age 68 after being retired since age 51.
Harv enjoys a double quarter pounder with cheese without pickle, without catsup, and with extra onions. He enjoys the human and technical aspects of bridge as well as ballroom dancing. He enjoys donating blood. He enjoys investing in his small computers for word, video, and audio processing as well as publishing. He enjoys his asset set more as it becomes ever smaller - a car/RV of 40 square feet, dress boots, tuxedo and suit, a folding bicycle, a set of spiffy clothes, and a respectable set of tools. Then there is that damn two foot stack of personal papers, a bunch of audio tapes that have lingered for decades, a pantry of food and chemicals, and even a chair for lounging.
Harv loves people on three levels - he respects all 108 billion, he encourages the few that he can within his daily 24 hour limitation, and he can structure challenges for those he must leave permanently or temporarily.
He has freed himself from whatever and strives to practice freeing.
All the above joy, love, and freeing for self, another, and others.
For that another, there has been a clever recurring song whose lyrics form the basis of further analysis of perhaps the greatest codependency promoted/trained by authority - informal, formal, and functional.
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender
Pretending that I’m doing well
My need is such I pretend too much
I’m lonely but no one can tell
Oh yes, I’m the great pretender
Adrift in a world of my own
I play the game but to my real shame
You left me to dream all alone
Too real is this feeling of make believe
Too real when I feel when my heart can’t conceive
Oh, yes, I’m the great pretender
Just laughing and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I’m not, you see
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re still around
Too real is this feeling of make believe
Too real when I feel when my heart can’t conceive
Oh, yes, I’m the great pretender
Just laughing and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I’m not, you see
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re still around
Unfortunately for Harv, he sees dysfunction in those that are or would be promoted as 'eligible' anothers. Oral and written conversation are problematic as to convenience of occurrence and the interpretation of vested interest.
Harv is giving the 'elite' environment of Marco Island a trial and enjoying it more - a determination more than a given.
Both Thoreau and Harv have averted traditional responsibility, yet their lifestyles are within the cultural realm, although several standard deviations away from the norm.
Yet when it comes to choice, all humans are on the norm, for they choose, whether they like it or not, or whether they claim responsibility or not they do choose. Whether their choice is free or enslaved is a matter for further discussion. For Harv, he continually attempts to do freeing things, especially in light of not having the life time available to actualize fully all those enjoyable activities.
Harv finds this writing beneficial because the writing focused his insight, mirroring what he would like to think: that of reflecting his life operation.
Pedagogy
- Maintain two computers (C1VN and 1450) for ease and reliability of data backup.
- Support includes an audio computer (195T) and camera computer (D100).
- Structure a functional folder organization for the data.
- Choose a data folder reflecting writing interest.
- Open a new DOC file.
- Cut and paste document formats from previous work.
- Develop a set of format principles (this writing).
- Integrate picture format principles.
- For web publishing the file, also ‘save as’ HTML.
- Maintain web hosting and facilitate variant searches.
Incidentals
References
Frequently, Harv reads the NYT via Juno: usually selecting the Printer Friendly format. On occasion, Harv notes article content, referencing the quoted material with the article’s Printer Friendly header plus the addition - “The New York Times: via Juno.com” enclosed parenthetically.
Next computer anticipated
A forced reversion to the use of Harv’s C1 computer reinvented its advantages, helping to bring to mind the circumstances of replacement by the X7 – now ‘lost’ by theft.
INTENSIVE: adjective: of, relating to, or marked by intensity or intensification: as a: highly concentrated <intensive study>; b: tending to strengthen or increase; especially: tending to give force or emphasis <intensive adverb>; c: constituting or relating to a method designed to increase productivity by the expenditure of more capital and labor rather than by increase in scope <intensive farming>; - intensively adverb; - intensiveness noun. (M-W.com).
INTENSIVE: adjective: concentrated on a single area or subject or into a short time; very thorough or vigorous. (Oxford American Dictionaries in Apples' Tiger OS.)
INTENSITY: noun: 1: the quality or state of being intense; especially: extreme degree of strength, force, energy, or feeling; 2: the magnitude of a quantity (as force or energy) per unit (as of area, charge, mass, or time); 3: SATURATION 4a. (M-W.com).
INTENSIFY: verb: transitive senses; 1: to make intense or more intensive: STRENGTHEN; 2a: to increase the density and contrast of (a photographic image) by chemical treatment; b: to make more acute: SHARPEN; intransitive senses: to become intense or more intensive: grow stronger or more acute; - intensification noun. (M-W.com).
Then the Toshiba Libretto came to Harv’s attention, almost as small, with large enough keyboard, and less expensive.
This writing eclipses the February 2003 restructure, whose link mistakenly appeared only in “New Items”. Links will be held in “New Items” only for a limited time.
Photos
Pix are stored in “me web” for ease of hyper linking but must use the name of the web host. Pictures are sized to fit low-resolution screens thus appear half size on a high-resolution display.
Notes
If ‘level 1’ headings have periods, hyper linking on the same page is impossible. The paragraph indent is three v four for aesthetics.
Note 1 - Harv’s usage – causing abundant growth, marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity. PROLIFIC: adjective: 1650 1: producing young or fruit especially freely: FRUITFUL; 2 archaic: causing abundant growth, generation, or reproduction; 3: marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity <a prolific composer>; synonym see FERTILE; - prolificacy noun; - prolifically adverb; - prolificness noun. (M-W.com).