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It is oddly foggy this morning.
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I got out of bed at 5:59 and wish I had slept longer. I couldn't see the clock in the hotel room from my bed, and assumed it was much later. Now I am up, teeth brushed, sitting in the near-darkness, resenting that my wife and daughter sleep deep into Saturday mornings without any trouble.
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It is Spring-like in Dedham, Massachusetts, today. Morning fog with more clouds than sun. High about 71F. Winds E at 10. Tonight there will be thundershowers. Low 58F. Winds S at 15 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
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I certainly hope the rains comes late, because my niece is getting married in the afternoon.
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My mechanic screwed-up the AC in my car. I would like it to be cool on Sunday when I drive back to New York.
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Please send birthday greetings to:
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William Seward
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Henry Fonda
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Liberace
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Bob Edwards
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Pierce Brosnan
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Debra Winger
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Olga Korbut
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Janet Jackson
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Gabriela Sabatini
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Tori Spelling
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It was so exciting to watch Olga Korbut in the Olympics. Perhaps it is because I am older, and just a little more impatient, but I find gymnastics mush less interesting now than thirty and forty years ago. Do you think the failure of the Soviet Union, the taking-down of the Iron Curtain and the end of the Cold War has made things just a little less mysterious? When the American media treated the Communist world like people less-than-human, and provided news coverage that rivaled their coverage of Mars, it was easy to think of them as different and, well, "foreign." So, when athletes like Olga Korbut appeared on television, they were that much more fascinating, that much more exotic. With the homogenization of world culture, everything is so similar: processed food, clothing, automobiles, gymnasts.
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What do you think of the globalization of world culture? Is it making things more interesting, or making things more the same?
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So, back to this sleep thing. As I age, I find that sleep is harder to get. How do you sleep?
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Libby Harris is my most recently added friend at Facebook. Who is yours?
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empathy \em-puh-thee\

noun

:the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.

:the imaginative ascribing to an object, as a natural object or work of art, feelings or attitudes present in oneself: By means of empathy, a great painting becomes a mirror of the self.
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Dick Mac asks: "Is the wrong-wing correct by denouncing Barack Obama's plan to include empathy as a characteristic of the next Supreme Court Justice?"
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Name that tune: "So what you wanna know calamity's child? Where do you wanna go? What can I do for you?"