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Belem do Para, Brazil - November 2017

Awesome on the Amazon

The most amazing thing happened to me, when I saw this river with my own eyes, experienced this city, and realized why they named it Bethlehem. I’ll be adding more photos here as I process my first week back in Brazil and first time in my life on the rio Amazonas Many years ago I […]

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Canada

Canada at one hundred fifty years old

Silicon Palms and me have a place in Canada and believe it or not there are palm trees in British Columbia, especially along the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island but even right in the city of Vancouver, occasionally on a rooftop but frequently along the path of the beaches. Naturally palm trees in Vancouver are […]

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Fortune Cookie

Fortune Cookie with no Fortune

True story; yesterday I ordered Chinese food for 3 people, it was more impressive and more delicious than any Cantonese Chinese dishes I’d eaten in years. When we were finished, each of us chose a fortune cookie. I was second of three people and selected the fortune cookie furthest away from me, which is actually […]

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cognitive dissonance

cognitive dissonance

Definition of cognitive dissonance :  psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously The remedy for cognitive dissonance is forced positivity with large doses of reality. If raging conflicts in the mind continue to plague the host, then more information is recommended, until the symptoms subside. Common side effects of cognitive dissonance are […]

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Forced Positivity is a rare commodity

Forced Positivity

pos·i·tiv·i·ty noun: positivity the practice of being or tendency to be positive or optimistic in attitude. “pupils draw power from the positivity of their teachers” the presence rather than absence of a certain substance, condition, or feature. “the first biopsy specimen demonstrated positivity for cytokeratin” PewDiePie has the most popular Vlog on Youtube and he […]

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tarot cards read by an intuitive

Tarot Card Reading by an Intuitive

I knew she was an intuitive when I first met her about 3 years ago, we became friends almost immediately. We both worked within an old used book store, one of the biggest in Brasil. Her thing, among others, was tarot card reading and she’d been reading them for more than half her sixty-five years. […]

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Is the end near?

Is the end near?

Is the beginning near? If I could tell you the exact day and time when the world (as we know it) comes to an end, would you be any better for it? What would you do differently, if you knew that there was a small, precise number of days and hours until something out of […]

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Revolution

Revolution of the Mind

Have you ever wondered about singularity? The reason I ask is because I personally believe that singularity is what will save humanity and our planet from self-destruction. Perhaps even; a “singularity event” will trigger the truth to take-over, and all at the same time, the majority of inhabitants on earth, will come to the same […]

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Perception vs Reality

Perception vs Reality

Beware the ides of March! The actual quote is from Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar (1599). The warning is uttered by a soothsayer who is letting Roman leader Julius Caesar know that his life is in danger, and he should probably stay home and be careful when March 15th, the Ides of March, rolls around. How […]

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Cachaça Caipirinha

The Last Caipirinha

The last Caipirinha was the best one, exactly because it was the last one. The time had come and past, it was time for me to hit the wagon for good. My romance with the Cachaça had lasted long enough, the magic was gone from the relationship and all that was left was drudgery and […]

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