tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87711222003165789132023-11-16T06:08:00.457-08:00the path forwardWe leave a legacy just by sharing our ideas with others.D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-39845963753138727142018-03-01T17:31:00.001-08:002018-03-01T17:31:08.489-08:00Getting Old Fast NowI am not a big fan of growing old. I mean, I like the part about acquiring memories and knowledge and developing wisdom but the part about my moving parts having issues from aging, that part I do not like.
D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-39071999663496547672018-03-01T17:00:00.000-08:002018-03-01T18:17:08.851-08:00Vulnerable HumansIt has been an interesting year for me and I have decided to share that journey because we need to talk about how vulnerable we are and about how our health care systems are limited in their capacity of diagnosis and treatment.
2 years ago. . . .
About 2 years ago I started to notice what I could only describe as "stress" starting to affect me.
Occasionally I felt "weird" and my body did D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-87206498036937947152017-12-18T18:51:00.002-08:002018-02-07T19:32:30.771-08:00Star Wars The Last JediStar Wars The Last Jedi.
I loved the movie.
I liked how gender and appearance didn't define or confine what the characters could accomplish.
I liked how leadership, and the potential to make a difference in the universe, was coming from many different angles.
It was a refreshing look at the battle of good and evil that admits that
masculinity is not the strong hero that saves the day D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-85226194776245477892017-12-17T10:00:00.000-08:002017-12-18T19:04:50.009-08:00fact or fictionWe have for a long time had The National Enquirers and "Professional" Wrestlers and those that believed that their fiction was real.
Currently though this game to attract readers/viewers and therefore advertising revenue is beginning to emerge as a absolute chaos of capitalism.
Everywhere you turn there are links to content that looks "real" but its fake. Whether purely for entertainment D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-64808212271433458912017-10-04T12:15:00.002-07:002017-10-04T12:15:26.960-07:00Predicting the demise of FacebookOver 5 years ago I predicted that Facebook would be gone in 5 years.
It turns out that I was wrong.
At the time I had looked at Facebook and saw that the features and content were so juvenile that it couldn't possibly survive in the long run. Just looking at the name and the original intent was the foundation of my prediction and seeing the interactions 5+ years ago confirmed it for me D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-63451097170238390672017-03-19T18:59:00.000-07:002017-03-19T18:59:40.438-07:00we don't like sharing but we do like borrowing? or maybe you don't like borrowing either? D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-75204970206588090842017-02-16T05:00:00.000-08:002017-03-19T19:01:06.949-07:00labelsI think perhaps the greatest lesson I will learn in my life is the expansive disruptive power of the label.
I have never liked labels, not since I was a small child. I was labeled with many negative labels as a child and I am hopeful that some of those types of labels are reducing as the system is slowly coping with issues around bullying. As I grew I came discover how labels worked in D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-60234715357273975232017-01-16T21:00:00.000-08:002017-03-19T19:05:13.419-07:00timeOn a recent trip to Florida I experienced a lot of wasted time with travel and running errands. Twice I lost time due to poor traffic planning and or long line ups. I watched around as everyone just seemed to accept that they will not get to use their own time wisely. D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-11787880166193963112016-10-30T18:24:00.002-07:002016-10-30T18:24:36.724-07:00extraI see the world as a division of life split into categories of entertainment, health/wellness, income sources, family/friends, social/community and our extra. Each person’s life is a collection of these categories but what separates us apart from each other is where we choose to apply our extra time, money and passion. Throughout our lives the categories grow and shrink in their impact on our D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-85608849085982389552016-06-22T23:30:00.000-07:002016-06-23T11:54:18.843-07:00possible futuresOne of my favourite thing about following bloggers is when they pass along one of their own learning moments and share a new concept with us.
Reading Patrick Rhone's web site The Random Post I discovered another Gem that he found.
He point's us to Derek Sivers' concept of "possible futures" where you create a space where you allow yourself permission to brain dump your ideas of a possible D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-79569387678489017512016-03-29T09:40:00.000-07:002016-06-23T11:17:29.510-07:006 yearsSix years is not a sacrifice when the end goal of the project is something great. Is it?
When an investment of time into someone produces an end result that lasts a life time, how much time do you choose to invest?
D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-50219363957813210602016-01-19T12:46:00.000-08:002016-01-20T17:55:12.344-08:00blog like no one is readingI write here to share ideas that come up from time to time.
Writing them out helps me to process them. Editing my words, over and over (sometimes not enough)  helps me to further work through the idea and the issues.
I publish it publicly because it is important to leave a legacy of our ideas, even if they are incomplete. That is the true gift of the Internet to this age, the opportunity to D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-24760476131798248372015-12-22T11:32:00.000-08:002015-12-22T11:32:03.226-08:00Visits at the endI am a big believer in honoring people for who they are and what they have accomplished, no matter how small. I am not sentimental and I do not linger in relationships out of obligation or hopes of some magical result. The concept of karma, cause and effect, is not lost on me but I think we as a species worry too much about the quantity of acceptance of others and not enough about the quality.
D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-45598001680844350522015-12-15T07:35:00.002-08:002015-12-15T07:35:32.795-08:00Why making the world a better place needs to be the developed world's responsibility
We all deserve what Bill and Melinda have found and we need to help the world live to it's full potential.
Helping achieve global goals that lift up everyone will give us more life satisfaction
Leadership is found in many, many places where people have a plan that does not sacrifice community for personal privilege, greed and the perception of personal safety.
Several organizations have set D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-79270513098959165632015-12-10T19:36:00.001-08:002015-12-10T19:36:14.758-08:00Christmas...... are you celebrating it?There are two Christmas celebrations.
One, the consumerist celebration where we bribe each other in hopes that goodwill can be generated with money instead of time and fellowship. A celebration supported by business hoping to keep selling product.
Two, a religous celebration that takes a historical story of God coming in the form of a human to make the world right by showing us that there is a D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-10239473178205332612015-12-10T07:49:00.004-08:002015-12-10T07:49:50.724-08:00The Problem with "Wisdom"The Problem with "Wisdom" when it comes from old text written long ago, is that the world was a horrible place long ago.
People did horrible things to each other, leaders manipulated people using lies stacked upon lies and death came far too quickly. This statement, is still far too simple compared to the the state of things in humanities past. Just study history.
Why then, would you look to a D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-36192782338156160812015-12-06T05:28:00.000-08:002015-12-09T05:28:43.266-08:00 Real Life Satisfaction - My Thoughts on Bill and Melinda GatesBill and Melinda Gates are billionaires. Bill could easily disappear to a private Caribbean island
and live out his life in complete luxury. Perhaps he
does enjoy that lifestyle more than I do but he also spends a great deal
of time sharing his wealth with a lot of people who are not
shareholders in his companies, not part of the elite 1% and not the
movers and shakers who might ensureD R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-4627363274893461552015-11-22T19:45:00.000-08:002015-11-22T19:45:41.434-08:00EscapeEscape our human reality, it is what we do.
Whether it be into a book, video game, movie, drawing, story or just our imagination we go to that unreal imaginary place to escape our present reality.
It is an amazing ability that humans have to cope with hardship, suffering and boredom.
It is also the largest growing industry on the planet and moving both our potential and earnings the worlds D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-72745381164969777272015-11-21T07:20:00.001-08:002015-11-21T07:20:09.001-08:00we are stewardsPublic lands and lakes, parks, charities, community groups, churches, oceans, community trust and air are . . . . . . .
. . . . .not yours . . . . . . . .
. . . . . they are gift to be shared with everyone and left for future generations just as they were a gift to you.
Knowing that they will bring joy, meaning, peace, happiness and comfort . . . . . . .
. . . . . . is your payment for D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-74818388502203064302015-10-07T11:08:00.000-07:002015-10-07T11:08:52.868-07:00the problem with a label......and democracyThe label states that this product is "fresh", how do you define that?
If you polled your friends, how many definitions of fresh do you think you would get? More than one, I would think.
The problem lies with the label and what it implies.
When we choose a label, or one is assigned to us, associations often come with that label for actions and choices.
If you say you are vegetarian, D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-33049434417962803812015-05-18T18:27:00.001-07:002015-05-18T18:29:39.050-07:00sharing the wishing wellA wishing well is found.
For everyone who takes a sip of water from the well a wish of the natural gifts of the world is granted.
At first the well is known only to a small group of people but as they tell their friends the number of people grows.
As the number grows people start to notice that the taste of the water begins to grow bitter and wishes too start to become tainted and incomplete.
D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-56901713303645102392015-04-02T05:15:00.001-07:002015-04-02T05:15:10.943-07:00anniversarySilently we move through a yearly cycling around the sun. Along the way we pass locations on that path that are memorable to us. They are memorable more by what happened there in a different cycle than by the location itself. Round and round we go visiting the same route each time but the history of what took place in that spot helps to remind us that interesting things do happen on this D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-40487181058547962812015-03-11T19:17:00.001-07:002015-03-11T19:25:06.005-07:00truth or comfort?Do we all have trust issues with people or groups?
For me, one example of an issue I have with trusting people is with those who we are supposed to trust at fixing our vehicles. I believe that I have experienced, on repeated occasions, where a vehicle has gone in for servicing and in the weeks that followed that vehicle experienced new problems that before the visit did not exist. This D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-8426114562930157672015-03-11T12:34:00.000-07:002015-03-11T12:34:28.399-07:00still reading?Are you still reading this blog?D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771122200316578913.post-39128383353646008602015-02-26T19:13:00.001-08:002015-02-26T19:43:09.255-08:00living vicariously I am going to say that living vicariously through someone else or a fictional character deepens the divide between the have and the have nots.
Living vicariously through others.
If we choose to experience our pleasure or entertainment through watching someone else in a role, in a game, a race, etc, etc we can cheer them on and celebrate with them when good things happen. It's a very exciting D R Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10305912606863168547noreply@blogger.com5