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agmoore (75)in Let's Make a Collage • 4 hours ago
Enrichment Through Government Service
How do people feel when the leaders of government become rich while in office? Even if there is not direct theft of funds, there's the understandable suspicion that corrupt use…
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agmoore (75)in The Ink Well • 7 days ago
Win Some, Lose Some...
The first time I did a walk through in my new house, about two years ago, I took a tumble off the back deck. I miscalculated the distance between the deck's steps, lost my…
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agmoore (75)in Discovery-it • 11 days ago
War Crimes at Sea: A Personal and Historical Perspective
In recent days I've been remembering my Uncle Al. News reports about bombings in the Caribbean brought those memories back. When I was very young Uncle Al would visit my…
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agmoore (75)in Discovery-it • 18 days ago
Discovering a Way Forward With Cancer
Today I went with a friend to the Center for Advanced Medicine, RJ Zuckerberg Cancer Center. My friend was being prepared for a highly specialized cancer treatment call SBRT:…
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agmoore (75)Silver Smithin Silver Bloggers • 24 days ago
Silver Blogger's Prompt #21: Childhood and Lifelong Hobbies
Hobby? How about passion? I was already in my sixties, with my existential clock ticking loudly, when I realized my time on earth was short. I had spent most of my life…
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agmoore (75)in Let's Make a Collage • 27 days ago
Walk in My Shoes for a Mile...A Story and a Collage for LMAC #241
Achlys threw his hands up in despair. "I will never leave this place," he lamented. "I am my father's son, his father's grandson. We have been blacksmiths in the village for as…
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agmoore (75)in The Ink Well • last month
Passages
When I arrived at Aunt Gladys' house I had the clothes on my back, and nothing more. She made a bed up for me and my sister Dawn in the living room. We didn't see my mother, or…
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agmoore (75)in Hive Pets • last month
When Mama Takes a Day--or Two
It finally happened. COVID caught up with me. I know I must be the last person on the planet to get this virus, but then I've been very careful. Having COVID in a…
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agmoore (75)in Hive Book Club • 2 months ago
Brave New World: A Bridge Between Utopia and Dystopia
Aldouse Huxley, drawing by Eric Pape, 1929. Public domain About a week ago I stumbled across a radio rendition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World . I was intrigued…
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agmoore (75)in Family & Friends • 2 months ago
When Poker Is More Than a Game
I played poker this weekend with my family. This is not a game I played as a child. Back then, the only card game I knew was War , which doesn't require any skill at all.…
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agmoore (75)in Daily Blog • 2 months ago
There's a Storm Coming
300W Portable Power Station There is supposed to be a nor'easter coming through here today, lasting until Tuesday. Predictions are for coastal flooding, high winds, heavy…
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agmoore (75)in Rant, Complain, Talk • 2 months ago
Can AI Create Art?
The auction house, Christies, recently held an auction of AI Art . On their website, in describing AI 'art', they posted this sentence: "AI art has emerged as a…
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agmoore (75)in Rant, Complain, Talk • 2 months ago
Fascism
The first time I heard a U. S. president referred to as fascist was when Richard Nixon was president. The same charge has been leveled more recently against the current U. S.…
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agmoore (75)in Let's Make a Collage • 3 months ago
Progress, Winners and Losers: LMAC # 237
When I first moved into what we called L...house, in 1954, a field sloped down from the front and back yards. At the bottom of the field was a stream and beyond the stream a…
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agmoore (75)in Rant, Complain, Talk • 3 months ago
Freedom of Speech
On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I wish I had not watched the video that showed the murder. I watched it because I wanted to know if everything that was…
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agmoore (75)in Let's Make a Collage • 3 months ago
LIL: Images of a Cat and a Dog, Captured for the LMAC Gallery
It's been a while since I contributed pictures to LIL, the LMAC Image Gallery . A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog about my cat, and it occurred to me that many…
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agmoore (75)in The Ink Well • 3 months ago
Dance: An Inkwell Creative Nonfiction Prompt
The figure in the movie twirled on its head, executed a flip and landed neatly on its feet. That figure was my daughter. I was watching a film at the Museum of Natural History in…
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agmoore (75)in Hive Book Club • 3 months ago
Winston Churchill's "Gathering Storm", Volume I of The Second World War
Members of Ethiopian Nobility as Prisoners of War, Italian Invasion of Ethiopia, 1938 ZeMenelik. CC 4.0 license . Churchill was tolerant of the rise of fascism, and…
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agmoore (75)in Hive Pets • 3 months ago
The Cat!
When I wake up in the morning, it's not to an alarm clock, or the rising sun. I wake up to a howl. Here is the howler: This cat was rescued from the street about 16 years…
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agmoore (75)in Discovery-it • 3 months ago
The Magnificent Appalachian Mountains
Recently my son visited his cousin, my nephew, in North Carolina. Last year parts of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee were devastated by Hurricane Helene. Roads were…
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