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A lifetime of learning with the one intent of becoming good at something has yielded little more than being very general at many things.

The modern day Renaissance man is common enough. Living in a time where much of your future is uncertain. We spend 4 years to earn a degree in X only to become Y, V, W, and other.

It seems that my life has been one of constant learning of new things to enable me to perform the next3 year task. This goes on and on. Yet if I worked in a factory placing a part for twenty years, or in an office pushing a paper I do not imagine it would provide any more meaning in life.

Over the years the variety of odd jobs has not eroded away the content of my heart but rather the location. Of all the cities by the sea I have lived in this one offer many special challenges. mostly it is the same as anywhere.

The goal is to do something that is meaningful in life anywhere. Even better would be to do something I like at a location that is not too dreadful.

Knowing nothing goes beyond the work place it is life. Talking to other people during the week I learn just how much I do not know. Words. Ideas. TV shows. Not only alien to me often strange and unreal. How much have I missed? Is it worth knowing? When too far out I take some relief in not knowing of such.

2012 with only three days remaining was and odd year for me. Looking back just a little bit the year was one filled with many great things for the world and also full of tragedy. So many passed this year that were remote yet still dear.

Sally Ride
Whitney Houston
Andy Griffith
Donna Summer
Robin Gibb
Larry Hagman
Carlos Fuentes
Dick Clark
Sherman Hensley
Norman Schwarzkopf
Ravi Shankar
Dave Brubeck
Thomas Kinkade

The list is of celebs of no relation to me. But at the same time they were very much the people that many of us grew up with. Or were inspired by. Or fell asleep to.This dates me wonderfully. This is what happens.

to the fallen stars

I say good night.

Should it have taken this long for me to start a blog? I do not read the blogs of other. So what has inspired this? I know as much. Am I willing to share as much with the world? No not at this time and perhaps never.

I will write of what? everything and nothing. The prattle that fills everyone’s head at some point is always there. Only in recent decades can we share so much about nothing.

In this world few can have nothing to share with the world. Our moderns lives are tormented by that which makes up life. Our choices. Our desires. Our secrets. Our dreams.