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Stupid friends and clever enemies

As our President ponders his choices for the United States Supreme Court, I hope he learns from the mistakes of the past. Here are a couple of folk tales that demonstrate that: "When God needs to punish you, he sends you stupid friends and clever enemies."

This one is from Italy: Once upon a time there was a little woman who had a little room and a little hen. The hen laid an egg and the little woman took it and made a little omelet of it, and put it to cool in the window. Along came a fly and ate it up. Imagine what an omelet that must have been! The little woman went to the magistrate and told him her story. He gave her a club and told her to kill the fly with it wherever she saw it. At that moment a fly lighted on the magistrate's nose, and the woman, believing it to be the same fly, gave it a blow and broke the magistrate's nose.

This one is from Switzerland": A peasant left a jug of milk with a neighbor for safekeeping. When he reclaimed the jug, the milk had disappeared. Angry words led to a lawsuit, and the judge decreed that the neighbor should pay for the milk, even though the latter claimed that the flies had consumed it. "You should have struck them dead," said the judge. "What?" replied the peasant, "You grant me permission to kill flies?" "Yes indeed," responded the judge. "You have my permission to kill them anywhere you find them." In that moment the peasant saw a fly on the judge's cheek. He stepped up to him and gave him a slap, saying, "I bet that cursed fly is one of those who drank up the milk!" Because of the permission he had granted the peasant, the judge could do nothing about the slap.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it

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Fortune has allowed me to come full circle and return to my earlier interest in photography. I am at that age were some weight loss would be beneficial. I certainly don't believe all photographers need to starve, but my initial goals are realistic, if not humble. The industry has changed tremendously, but the possibilities are unlimited. I am grateful that my parents' gave me a generic name. It's allowed me to explore numerous paths unhindered.

"I continue to seek exquisite beauty in my images, exploring all techniques, old and new".

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Always hug the tree

There is a famous quotation about sounds in the forest: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" I don't know what happens when no one is around, but I can state that when humans are around, a falling tree makes a lot of noise.

The next time I photograph my friend working in the woods I will be better prepared. He knows what he is doing, but I don't. I found some pretty good information that I will carry with me on my next trip North:

• Hug the tree and look up it, assessing the lean.
  
• When you cut a tree you need to watch out.
  
• Escape the Falling Tree:

• As soon as the tree shows signs it is going over, make your way quickly away from the tree down the escape route.
• Never turn your back on the tree.
• Be far away, and look out for broken branches in surrounding trees.

My friend is selectively culling trees in poor health or trees ready for harvest. He is also ensuring that younger, healthy trees will have access to the sun. Maybe ten, twenty or thirty years from now future generations of his family can enjoy the fruits of his labor.

"No shade tree? Blame not the sun, but yourself." Chinese Proverb

"I think that I shall never see, a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." Ogden Nash 

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Fortune has allowed me to come full circle and return to my earlier interest in photography. I am at that age were some weight loss would be beneficial. I certainly don't believe all photographers need to starve, but my initial goals are realistic, if not humble. The industry has changed tremendously, but the possibilities are unlimited. I am grateful that my parents' gave me a generic name. It's allowed me to explore numerous paths unhindered.

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Now I know why I liked this man

Each night he slept on the floor. I suppose it was a type of self deprivation, a penance. As a product of the Catholic schools, I have vivid memories of all of the lessons of Lent. Us kids gave up little; if we had a nickel or a dime, we still bought our candy or comic books. Of course, only if we couldn't steal them. The good Sisters of Saint Joseph made sure that we at least did our small part, and herded us into the church once or twice a week to do the Stations of the Cross.

This man, Pope John Paul II was the real deal. He practiced self-restraint, abstinence. He was said to have spent entire nights lying with his arms outstretched on the bare floor. He fasted before ordaining priests or bishops. However, what made him real, the Pope of the average man, was that each morning he messed up his bed so no one knew.

As scientists begin to uncover the secrets of longevity, they are finding a prescription for long life that few will want to take: a diet so low in calories that to most Americans, it would feel close to starvation. The diet, dubbed "calorie restriction" in the clinical parlance of science, would be called severe deprivation in any other lexicon. Calorie restriction was first shown to create exceptionally long-lived rats in the 1930s. It later had the same effect in guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders and a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer. Labrador retrievers became the first large mammals to join the list.

The experiments limit food intake to the minimum necessary to prevent negative effects on health -- or at least 30% less than the current "healthy" diet. Translated into human terms, that would be 1,120 calories a day for the average woman, or 1,540 for a man. For the average American, eating at that level would create deep hunger pangs. One meal at McDonald's -- a Big Mac, supersize fries, and small Coke -- weighs in at 1,450 calories. And if a woman on 30% calorie restriction had a cappuccino and a large muffin during her morning commute, she would already have consumed 75% of her allocation for the day.

That's a diet for a saint. I'll stick to my occasional junk food and three Our Fathers and three Hail Mary's once a year. I may not get a ticket on the express train to heaven, but I'll die fat and happy.

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Fortune has allowed me to come full circle and return to my earlier interest in photography. I am at that age were some weight loss would be beneficial. I certainly don't believe all photographers need to starve, but my initial goals are realistic, if not humble. The industry has changed tremendously, but the possibilities are unlimited. I am grateful that my parents' gave me a generic name. It's allowed me to explore numerous paths unhindered.

"I continue to seek exquisite beauty in my images, exploring all techniques, old and new".

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