denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • 5 days agoAfternoon Coffee With Friends... and Other Adult ActivitiesThe Internet is a funny thing. A paradox, if you will. This game changing invention somehow brought everyone "virtually" into our living rooms, which at the same time…denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • last monthMidweek Musings: "Updates" Are Nice, but NOT When you Constantly Have to Pivot and Change Stuff!I got a "courtesy message" from commerce site Etsy (where I sell my painted mandala stones) this morning, asking me to bring my listings "into compliance" with some…denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • 4 months agoWe Can't ALWAYS Have Something "Original" to Say... Can We?As a quick follow-up to my previous post about our messed-up Internet, we ended up having a technician come out to examine the situation, today. Thankfully, it was Lorenzo...…denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • 4 months agoOur "Structured" Internet Outages and Other Mysteries...Some thing just don't make sense to me. When I say "don't make sense," I mean that I can't readily find a logical and reasonable explanation for them, only a "strange and…denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • 5 months agoTechnology is Awesome! (Until it Stops Working...)With considerable nervousness and despair, I found myself looking at the Black (rather than blue) screen of death when I returned to my computer this morning. ![0019-Clover.jpg](denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • 7 months agoWhatever Happened to all the "Invisible Things" We Saw as Kids?When I was young, I was often described as "having an active imagination." Part of that statement is definitely true, although I'd submit that now — as an adult in my…denmarkguy in #hive-150329 • 7 months agoFast Changing World: Has Long Term Planning Become Obsolete?At times, I find myself wondering whether or not I am actually hampered by the fact that I grew up in an era of more stability and long-term thinking than we have today. ![0200-Sunset3.jpg](denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • 8 months agoTechnology Breaks and GardeningTo be honest, I can't remember the last time I went five days without posting. In fact, I'm not sure I ever have, both here and on Hive's predecessor. ![0590-PinkStrawberry.jpg](denmarkguy rebloggedlabyrinths in #hive-113967 • 8 months agoWhen you're feeling lost, this can help.23 years ago a girlfriend and I drove from where we lived in Big Sur, CA, USA to San Francisco's amazing Grace Cathedral to walk a labyrinth for the first time. It was my 33rd…denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • 9 months agoTechnology Breaks Are Good for the Mind and Spirit!It has been a few days since I last posted. As I reflect on that, I can't even remember the last time I went three days without a post... To be honest, I just needed to…denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • 10 months agoA Matter of Perspective: How We Use Technology and the Internet!Our kids are visiting from Seattle today on occasion of Middle Son turning 33... so we have a full house this weekend! Long Users... One of the thdenmarkguy in #hive-106316 • last yearMorning Reflection: What IS "Craziness," Anyway?"You shouldn't listen to them, they are crazy!" Those words are said by a lot of people, in one variation or another, and quite often. But what do we really mean, when we…denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • last yearThe Science of Mind: Reaching Happiness — Healing What's Wrong, Rather Than Just "Treating" itSome years ago, I remember watching a very interesting TED Talk, featuring Dr. Martin Seligman , regarded by many as the father of the Positive Psychology movement. ![1372-Nasturtium.jpg](denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • last yearThe Universe of Speculation: What if Humans Are AVERAGE, Rather Than UNIQUE?It seems to be wired into the human brain to think that we are "special;" that we are unique and different, as a species. An alien lifeform?denmarkguy in #hive-106316 • last yearMeandering Through Hive — Communities I Have Been Meaning to Visit: Silver BloggersI wonder how many of us have done the following: We read posts and curate; then we come across some post we like (usually reblogged by someone we follow) by a new (to…denmarkguy in #hive-134671 • last yearHiveBloPoMo Day 7: Blocked By the Ways of the New World in Which We Live!We have reached Day SEVEN, and the first week of HiveBloPoMo is in the bag! You can read more about it here . To be honest, I wasn't sure I was even going to complete a week, let alone adenmarkguy in #hive-114105 • 2 years agoMy Computer has Been Repaired! Time to Get Back to Work!As a few readers of these pages might recall, my primary work computer took a dive back at the beginning of December. Since then, I have been trying to do my work and my blogging…
