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Hello my fellow Politiores Troglodytes. This Blog is a collection of Posts, Poems, & Short Stories that I write on a daily basis. If you find it entertaining, informative, and controversial, then I have done my job properly. Thank goodness too, because Karma has been on my case of late. I'm supposed to bring fifty people into the fold or I'll have to give back the part of Einstein's brain I inherited. No, I'm not one of the Scientists who got a piece of his brain when he died. Karma said, "Eat this knowledge. It'll make you smarter!" The bargain I made with Karma was, if I could change fifty people into Politiores Populos, I would be rewarded with my very own Lamborghini. So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Like what you're reading, then read on. P.S. Populo is Latin for people. Politiores is Latin for educated. Troglodytes is English for troglodytes. And Einstein's brain was stolen by Thomas Stoltz Harvey after his death in 1955 and eventually divvied up into 240 pieces. If you just read that last sentence, then you have just learned something and I'm just that much closer to fulfilling my commitment to Karma!

Monday, September 11, 2017

Still Learning New Lessons Each Day

On
April 15 Through April 17,
of 2015,
I wrote about three ways to keep your life on track.
First came
About the time consuming efforts it takes to be addicted to any kind of drug.
From
Coffee
to
Heroin.
Then came
How,
if you want to become something in this world,
that only you can truly motivate yourself to the point where you can achieve success.
And finally,
the third story in the series,
On how to keep your mind sharp throughout your life.

****
I forgot what lesson three is?
No I didn't.
I remember now. 
Back in my
Catholic Grade School Days,
and hating every kneeling moment of it,
I never forgot what a
64 Year Old Nun,
Sister Adel
told the class one day.
Yes,
she was still teaching
Geography
at an age when most people were dying.
Back in the early 1960s.
She said,
"If your want to keep your mind sharp when you become old, start practicing now, by memorizing one thing per day instead of writing it down to remember it!"
 This is around
1961,
when we didn't have a better word then
Senility
for old folks who were loosing their minds.
This was the
Dark Ages
you know.
I myself still practice this technique today,
by memorizing numbers.
I'll try to memorize phone numbers,
special days on the calendar,
and so on.
It doesn't have to be numbers.
It can be anything you like.
But it really does help you if you do it daily.
I am living proof!
Now how many lessons did I say I was going to do?

 This is,
Three!
I Said I Was Going To Do Three
And This Is The Third One!
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“Some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns.”
- John Geddes, -


That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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