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Posts published by “Todd Walton”

Children

“I would suspect that the hardest thing for you to accept is your own beauty. Your own worth. Your own dignity. Your own royal pedigree.…

Austerity

“When we deeply understand that actions bring results, it can motivate us to take active responsibility for our actions and our lives.” — Joseph Goldstein…

Everything Connected

“When we express our true nature, we are human beings. When we do not, we do not know what we are.” — Shunryu Suzuki Planting…

Laughing

“Humor is just another defense against the universe.” — Mel Brooks Once upon a time, so many years ago it might have been another lifetime,…

Sources Of Wonder

“Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing…

My Father

When my father died five years ago, my siblings and I did not hold a memorial service in his honor. We were each of us…

Big Data

Yesterday brought an email from a friend with the subject heading Data Plague, with a link to an article from the New York Times about Big Data, a hot topic in the world of computer science and technology.

He Touched Me

Reading Bruce McEwen’s tragic Hug A Kid, Go To Jail, I thought, “My God, there but for the grace of luck and chance and (in my system of belief) the intervention of angels, I, too, might have been arrested for child molestation and been sent to prison and labeled a sex offender for the rest of my life — on several different occasions. What? How?

Stuff

The calendar says it is springtime, but the temperature and relentless rain say winter continues apace, this being the second year in a row that a very wet March will save Mendocino and Northern California from terrible drought.

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