tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82076949650279197722024-10-04T19:11:03.481-07:00365 THOUGHTS, NEW AND OLD, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHYThis is a "fun" autobiography with some serious stuff occasionally. You should expect occasional statements of opinion that may not match yours.
Do not expect "adult" content. That doesn't mean that this is a childish mental exercise.Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.comBlogger716125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-42529128622647602842020-09-21T11:33:00.000-07:002020-09-21T11:33:00.394-07:001:00 AM -- FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY THE FRIDGE Remember Dagwood and Blondie Bumstead?Their children, Alexander and Cookie?Don't forget the dog, Daisy.You're seeing this because last night, at about 1:30 AM, I awakened with a driving hunger pang. I ran out to the fridge, opened 'er up and the first thing that flashed before my imagination's eye was this:Once I got over the shock of the first wave, the first thing that came to mind Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-38830019020368063202020-09-15T14:16:00.000-07:002020-09-15T14:16:49.389-07:00SEASHORE, and MORE, -- VOICE OF GOD "DOES THE SONG OF THE SEA END AT THE SHORE OR IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LISTEN TO IT? Kahlil GibranThis is one of those thoughts that made me shake my head when I read it. The person to whom it is attributed is a favorite thinker/poet/guru whom I have followed for many years. It is a fascinating reality that after having dedicated so much spiritual energy basing my Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-15923962188805300562020-09-12T18:03:00.003-07:002020-09-12T18:20:22.435-07:00MY MADONNA, by Robert W, Service How many of you have a favorite poem?
Think about it. You must have one.
From Early to bed, Early to rise, Makes one happy, healthy
and wise , to “The Song of Hiawatha” or one of my favorites, “Evangeline.”
Each poem is like a little piece of time travel. That’s really the beauty
of poetry. It has Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-59006027066172381002020-08-13T11:13:00.001-07:002020-08-13T11:13:19.549-07:00LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH (Originally published in mid 2015) I keep getting these moronic emails that keep yelling at people to learn to speak English.To all you sweethearts out there who want to force anyone in the United States to speak English, there will have to be a law that allows you to apply that force. So far, you're out of luck because the United States has no law defining an official national language.Then, all of you bright Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-74883221594592174992020-08-11T14:12:00.001-07:002020-08-12T10:52:01.237-07:00FRONT PAGE NEWS -- HOLYOKE DAILY TRANSRIPT TELEGRAM -- MASSACHUSETTS Those were the days when we had real money. That 50¢ was enough for five days round trip bus fare from home to school. Truth to tell, that was the student discount fare.The bus company was local. The Holyoke Street Railway Company was the name. My favorite story out of all that could be told about that period of notoriety is one that didn't make the papers. Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-57225630872901103152020-07-26T14:50:00.001-07:002020-07-26T14:50:14.415-07:00DETOUR, THERE'S A SPIKEY ROAD AHEADHERE'S MY STORYBelieve it or not, I was "rescued" from a lonely desert life in 1975!Back then I was slightly smaller than a tennis ball, quills and all.Now I am close to 24 inches high and 24 inches in diameter. My stiff, very hardy sharp quills are an average of 1.75 inches long.I have been in this location, Paul and Belle's yard, since 1981.I am a jovial, friendly type who in my Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-9208063403872413062020-07-18T15:46:00.033-07:002020-08-09T19:33:25.515-07:00I REMEMBER WHEN...I REMEMBER
WHEN...Let me invite you to have an interesting trip down your personal memory
lane. I am inviting you to think back at
the times you said (or didn't say) "This, I will not forget." Some might be safe, but many of them will be
in the category of "stories that I will have to tell my children." Here are some samples of mine. 1 - The day when I saw my first dead Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-57364063402164761192020-07-15T15:05:00.001-07:002020-07-16T11:49:38.941-07:00CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TAKES AWAY LIFE -- IMPRISONMENT RUINS ITI have often thought about the thoughts that you see above. Lately they have been more insistent because for the last three+ years we the people of this country have seen human life attacked on many fronts. Lately, with the re-introduction of capital punishment in the USA, I have been shaking my head and clenching my teeth over the frontal attacts on human life that have been Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-61577369403181379542020-07-13T15:37:00.002-07:002020-07-16T12:16:05.145-07:00LAW AND ORDER -- Oh, Boy! Law and Order. There has been a lot of noise in the politisphere about this lately.Law and Order! What is that?Easy - Law is what is on the "books" before I got here. [I refer you to the Mosaic LAW.] Order is the way I tell you to act according to my reading of the LAW.Here's a simple example of order according to Joseph Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-50728098203928478912020-07-08T17:09:00.002-07:002020-07-18T10:36:35.822-07:00SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA CITY LIFETHIS IS ABOUT 100% WHAT I SAW LAST NIGHTLast night, I had to run to the pharmacy for a very small but important pill -- laxative -- in the hope that morning would bring the relief that makes octogenarian life worth living :-)I gathered my car keys, my wallet and my telephone, final instructions from the Voice from the Kitchen and went directly to the family car. No garage, just a Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-60960885549274551672020-07-03T10:58:00.004-07:002020-07-03T11:07:22.011-07:00INDEPENDENCE DAY - A SMILEY STORY -It's early December. I am the Director of Human Resources of a large electronic components manufacturer in San Diego, CA.I have just finished finalizing the schedule of paid holidays for the coming year. The entire senior management group has reviewed and approved it. I make the required number of copies for the managers and supervisors of the clerical and assembly departments.&Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-32279838957333006302020-06-30T17:19:00.003-07:002020-07-18T10:41:30.908-07:00DOUBLE EDGED LINGUISTIC SWORDS“Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” “I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.”“Safari, so goody.”“In politics, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” (Perhaps not from Churchill)There is always something to be learned Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-76941279431423103452020-06-28T16:57:00.000-07:002020-06-28T16:57:26.436-07:00OXIMORON WISDOM - YA CAN'T FIND IT IF YA DON'T LOOK"You should always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise, they won’t come to yours." (YOGI BERRA) "Most people my age are dead at the present time." (CASEY STENGLE) "As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it." (LEO DUROCHER) “learning's a gift, even when "pain" is your teacher!" (MICHAEL JORDAN) "Superman don't need no seat belt." (MUHAMMAD ALI)Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-85809093553329499022020-06-26T11:11:00.002-07:002020-06-26T14:15:02.209-07:00THIS IS BIGGER THAN I THOUGHT
THIS IS DAUNTINGLY SCARY
There have been many things that have happened to me without warning. Not all of them are equally good or equally bad; not all are equally overcome or equally impossible to vanquish. Some are so all consuming that they drive us humans to stand there, mouth agape, body trembling, heart pounding overtaken by the wish that what is happening will end Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-61776965198103793672020-06-25T13:44:00.002-07:002020-06-25T13:53:20.840-07:00MY AVATAR No picture attached here. What you have to appreciate is the line drawn cartoonish creature on the right side of your screen. That is what I have adopted as my avatar going back quite a few years. This is the work of our second son. This depiction of me is much more than just a little joke that is produced in a light hearted moment Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-2057020540935056212020-06-23T16:29:00.000-07:002020-06-23T16:30:19.769-07:00THE NICE NIECE SHARES HER LOVE13 year old niece expresses loveElyza LoreineThe other day the Voice from the Kitchen received this on Facebook. I don't do Facebook so I contacted the person who had sent it and asked all the pertinent questions. As it happens, the artist is the daughter of the person who originated the Facebook post. This is a source of joyfor us because the mother is our niece and Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-5851235351068267052020-06-17T12:00:00.005-07:002020-06-26T14:23:12.621-07:00YOU SHOULD WRITE A BOOK"You should write a book!"The Voice from the Kitchen tells me that all the time. She asks me questions in the hope of getting a one sentence answer only to be subjected to my one semester exposé of what I think the answer is.
The other day she asked how the United States got to be the United States. Were there always 50 states? Where did they come from? Now, tell me,Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-78012769063003935642020-06-15T15:41:00.001-07:002020-06-16T11:07:57.945-07:00MASKS AND OTHER COVERINGS I have to tell you a story that you will appreciate because it has a lot of human value. It came to me ysterday as I was re-instituting the "365 Thoughts" relationship during the time of facial coverings. I showed you my face, not anywhere nearly as fetching as the one above, but the seed for this story. Some years ago the Voice from the Kitchen and I had the Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-86106621617081921642020-06-14T21:44:00.000-07:002020-06-14T21:44:11.994-07:00REMEMBER ME? WE HAVE TO GET IT BACK TOGETHERHello. It's been ten years since I began this blog. Over time it came to contain 690+ "Thoughts." Lest you come to the conclusion that I ran out of material, I am here to reassure you that I still have some tucked away in the dark corners of my attic. It was the Wednesday evening before the celebration of Thanksgiving in 2010. I decided that I could give my sonsPapa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-41404740306274127452020-06-13T12:34:00.002-07:002020-06-13T12:38:28.050-07:00MINORITY MAJORITY - VIEW FROM GROUND LEVELI can't resist the temptation to address the "Black Lives Matter" axiom in view of my humorous life trajectory.I have to say that I am white, product of two white people. One was born in Canada and one in New Hampshire. I was born in Massachusetts. All the time I lived in the USA, 24 years, I lived in a cultural bubble that was more French Canadian than Anglo American.For two ofPapa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-87477873584260668052020-04-20T12:10:00.007-07:002020-06-14T18:39:39.176-07:00...BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT...
Life on jury duty
I am on jury duty again. I don't know why I have been so lucky in my born days to have such an oft repeated jury duty history. I have been a constant and consistent citizen of America's Finest City since 1975. I hate to break it to you Bostonians, but that means San Diego, California.
I have served on Federal Court juries twice and on Superior Court Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-64617964025880352112020-04-20T11:47:00.000-07:002020-04-20T11:47:05.752-07:00COVID-19 TESTING
The Ultimate Test –
Instantaneous Results -
I now have Covid-19: ___True ___False
Age:
Your Zip Code:
Send this via 1st class mail to: White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC 20500
If you prefer you may email:  Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-43887250328768491552019-12-07T10:24:00.000-08:002019-12-07T10:24:41.997-08:00THINGS HAVE CHANGED ... SEE BELOW...
Aren't these beautiful !?!
Yes, they sure are. They look so nice. They are so well formed and carefully chiseled and pleated. The colors are perfect, the leaves are glossy and smooth and the accentuating ferns carry the spirit of the creation up to the Creator. Perfect, right?
Not so -
There is one major (in my mind) quality missing. These Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-17290846977810469802019-11-14T15:43:00.000-08:002019-11-14T15:43:45.557-08:00NOW, I'M FAMOUS - FOR REAL AND FOR GOOD
I know Denis :-)!
It has been a long time since I have put some thoughts down in this space. It isn't for lack of thoughts. It is more due to the lack of "fire in the belly" as the saying goes. There is also another half reason: My hands are not as nimble as they used to be. It takes me significantly more time to scribble 450 words as it used to. Besides the lack of Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207694965027919772.post-25839041667583295472019-04-14T13:38:00.000-07:002019-04-14T14:06:54.703-07:00GOOD OLD DAYS? HMMM???
Buckle up, this is gonna be fun.
Email from a friend/email relationship:
Cultural diversity has made it so we can't even safely go to the mall anymore. Not culture in a race sense; culture as in the shared rules and values of a group. It used to be that society had a set of rule and standards that we expected all people to live by, a culture; in our quest to make all people feel Papa Puttsshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00565128278576668444noreply@blogger.com1