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The arenas (pages) gathered here will present ideas to help us move away from the visual digital dominance of screens and phones that inculcate our minds and prompt emotional responses. Today’s complex societies require, instead, critical thinking, which is the mind’s thought work, and requires training and effort. That thinking can be helped by an understanding and adopting a better framework as a launch point. I hope you find this information and suggestions worthy and will give me your feedback.

“To state the problem is to indicate a method and to inaugurate a program of inquiry.” Attributed to Karl Popper (1902-1994)

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Reading, Researching, and Writing on America’s West

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CREATING YOUR ‘PERSONAL TRIAD’

What is a ‘Personal Triad’ statement? It is a very concise three-part statement that presents who you are and your key passions. A personal triad statement uses the ‘rule of three’ to create a handy and intriguing method for answering those ‘tell me about yourself’ situations. When effectively delivered, you can add a set of...... Read More

Pathfinder: The three careers of a working life.

The triad above frames my now focus, and passions. I am in my 3rd Career. I suggest that one can have a simple three-part view of a career. This simplistic triadic view can serve as a top-of-mind reference for what you are about. As you confront decisions along the path, it can help prompt you...... Read More

GEOG – The Three Truths

On the Three Truths – Certainty v Truth of Things: Since Descartes, there have been many battles over the certainty of our knowledge [1.1]– of things and our thoughts. Today’s understanding of ‘what’s true’ seems to involve only one criterion– certainty. I argue/maintain/propose there are three types of truth. Each truth has different certainties which...... Read More

BECAUSE WE – realizations to help create a better 21st Century

BECAUSE WE – The legacy of our 20th Century: Because there is so much information to absorb, we grab the consensus answer. Because the pressure is to immediately declare, we converse in soundbites. Because the tallest nail invites a hammer, we choose not to speak. Because it is easier to declare feelings than to make...... Read More

An Afternoon Where

Black tree trunks stand like stately sentinels, before high-up dormer eyes, staring across well-turned lawns, undulating and silent. Glossy leaves of ivy and cropped shrubs skirt the grand house. Cloaking around the foundation, up to tendrils splayed, grasping over white wood toward the eaves. Snug in a feigned union of nature and permanence, sitting lordly...... Read More

Wind Tripper

Wind Tripper is Neal Ostmar’s first collection of poetry. The poems present evocative images by using palpable language and lucid metaphors. Poems like “The Nord Sea” and “Faraway” place you in the vast loneliness of the ocean. They convey how the drudgery of work and missing a loved one comes to hang about your shoulders....... Read More