What can we learn from Costa Rica?  But could we ever be as brave as the people that inhabit this beautiful country?

What does Vitas Gerulitus and Odle have in common?

In R&D if you ask the wrong question and then answer it with the appropriate research,  nothing of value is created.  In society and politics, if we ask or debate the wrong question, when we answer the question we still have nothing.    

When we ask does this action increase the GDP we blindly accept that if the answer is yes, then we should proceed.  What if that is the wrong question.  These and other examples are explored to see if we could make more progress as a society if we spent more time looking for the right question instead of arguing about the answers to questions that don't matter.

I am pleased to introduce you to Rebekah, a beautiful and unique person writing poetry that tells her story.  I enjoy her poems and believe you will too.  

Rebekah tells beautiful stories in poetry about the journey that is her life.   We discuss a little about her values, then she shares with us three of her poems.  Sit back and enjoy.

I’ve considered a tattoo

But I’m afraid

I won’t value tomorrow

What I value today.

My daughter, that’s tried knitting

And a dozen other things

None of them she mastered

Before moving on

Can choose her tattoos in an afternoon

Confident she will love it

Love it now and tomorrow.

The solstice is next weekend

At least that’s what I’ve heard

Solstice is a scary thing

For a man of my age

A day of darkness mostly

Like the end of life

With only a legacy

With only a legacy left behind

With ONLY on a legacy.

My legacy could be

The last western expert on magnesium

A renaissance of technology and know-how

That America left behind

An America that says “Not in my backyard”

As China locks and loads

With people and firepower

On essential technology, we are too noble to do.

My legacy could be writing

Novels, poems, flooding my mind

From the moment I wake

Until I lay sleepless in bed

Words, stories, flooding from my past

My travels, lovers, and dreams

Connections I’ve made along the way

All fodder for a novel if enhanced

With what might have been.

But, but, but

Can I do them all

Or even one.

And how do I chose

Like the tattoo I never had.

Roe

Dec 2019

Andrew Wang was the big surprise ... wow is he up to date with the times, both evidence, opinions, and facts.  Tom Sayer, the Green candidate, needs to get up to date on the nuclear reactors ... very necessary if we are going to be serious about climate change.  Biden, sorry, I don't like your son getting rich on your fame.  Bernie is just lovable Bernie.  Warren, you are not answering questions ... your hedging.  Klobuchar voted present on impeachment, perhaps she is running for Republican VP.  Pete is good, but he got in some petty fights with Elizabeth.   

Christians given a choice between Jesus and Trump chose Trump it seems.  How does what Jesus taught align with tv-Trump?  Imagine saying to your children, follow Trump, he is just like Jesus.