Quirky thoughts from an old man.
I work as a volunteer tour guide at the Pueblo Grande Museum and often I am assigned to the Artifact Cart. Yesterday, quite unexpectedly, a team from Channel 7 came to the museum and I was one of the people who the host spoke to. It was fun and live and counts toward my 15 …
After being closed for three months for the Covid Crisis the Pueblo Grande Museum is reopening in early July. I’m hoping to be asked back as a docent. It struck me as a good omen that the photo above bears a striking resemblance to this one from Stonehenge taken in the same era but on …
In October I started volunteering one day a week at the Pueblo Grande Museum. Right now I’m trained to talk about the artifact cart. And I gave my hiking buddy Larry a tour of the mound.
I earned this shirt as a volunteer at the Se’dav Va’aki Museum (formerly The Pueblo Grande Museum). But that is a different story. This story is that the shirt was manufactured in Ghana. Here is proof: If I were young and looking to help the poor and potentially make a lot of money I’d move …
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet The Pueblo Grande Museum has changed its name to S’edav Va’aki.
“You’re not old, you’re “chronologically gifted.” Thank you to Terry Campbell, Pueblo Grande Museum (Ret) for this great observation.
“Thoughtful speculation“ I have run into this phrase several times this summer and thought it was worthy of a blog post. The context was in book reviews where the author did not have all the facts but could see a trend line or an implication. For instance near the mound at Pueblo Grande Museum there …
At the time Hammurabi’s code was written (circa 1750BCE) the family was the basic unit of society. Individual rights were not a consideration. Here is a quote that demonstrates it: “If the architect built a house and the house subsequently collapses, killing the firstborn son of the master, the firstborn son of the architect shall …
“All our immigration controls have is a veneer of decency.” Philippe Legrain author of Them and Us
China has 1.2 billion people. The USA has about 330 million. We have about one quarter the population of China. For many reasons that I think are obvious, but which I will explain below the fold, size matters for nations. If we want to stay one of the leading nations of the world we need …