Editor, writer, photographer, janitor, and parking lot attendant.
Many wise people have advised us to do what comes naturally. For me, that includes writing and photography.
I also like to share what I have learned over several decades, and I appreciate it when other people do the same. One of the benefits of having been around a while is that I have seen many cycles complete and repeat. Young people know less about these cycles, and so they react differently to them. I write this blog as if young people are in the audience, but I have no statistics to confirm that they are.
Our society is in deep trouble. It’s not the problems that face us, but rather that we have lost interest in working on those problems together. We are increasingly polarized as a society in which people discard what other people contribute to the mix. We have many new online tools, and we don’t yet know what they are for, nor how we can contribute to designing guidance systems for them that could help bring us together in productive alliances. I hope to lead some conversations on topics such as these. So far, after more than 30,000 visits to this blog, my readers remain silent. I like to inquire into that silence in hope of breaking it.
The content, theme, and purpose of this blog are summarized in this bullet list:
- Proclaim my opinions about truth, justice, and the American way
- Share my knowledge and experience
- Praise people and things
- Publish announcements of various kinds
- Ask for help
- Inform people who want to be informed about what I’m doing and thinking
- The occasional need to rant, particularly about the shoddy state of business management in this nation
- Occasional guest posts
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. —E.B. White, Salt Water Farm
I provide a set of professional photography services that I charge for. This short video briefly describes those services if you are interested in knowing some of the things that I do.
Dan Wilson, Tucson
