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Capsule (Full commentary found immediately below Lead Picture): Saturday, August 24, 2019
Diets are so personal and so tied into our emotional needs that each person must create her own unique.
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail section)
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Taylor Swift in 2019
Toglenn (Glenn Francis)
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Commentary
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Diets are so personal and so tied into our emotional needs that each person must create her own unique.
My own creations have varied over the years.
For many years, my wife and I had our main meal when the children were at school, giving full attention to their eating at 6.00pm
When they were old enough that they could feed themselves and we could enjoy eating with them, our main meals took place with them at 6.00pm.
That flow repeated itself in my home when I raised my daughter.
Now, although active with the blog, I can create it at any time during the day that I choose.
So I have a virtual clean slate on which I may compose any rhythm to my diet as I see fit.
And something relatively odd has evolved:
I work at my desk from 6am to 10am when I stop to eat my main meal of the day.
And that includes my wine accompaniment.
Which means I eat very little for the rest of the day and drink alcohol not at all.
A single individual chocolate at 2.00pm.
And then on demand, a second, very limited meal: a small bowl of cereal with nuts and seeds and dried fruit and honey and milk.
And about 8pm, something very small: a piece of fruit; a half-cup of soup.
And several times during the day I suck on a popsicle, watermelon, only 40 calories (from W Foods).
The result of this?
Positive on two levels.
The first, more important one, I’ve been emotionally satisfied.
I’m happy.
The second:
I’d been gaining tiny bits of weight over the last eighteen months, resulting in a seven pound gain. Not liking it at all, mostly because I’d lost control of my diet.
Eight week ago I started this regimen and have been losing weight steadily and relatively quickly: a half pound a week, a total of four pounds.
Three to go.
The takeaway, never lose hope.
Never stop tweaking your diet.
Your life.
Your decisions.
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News re: existentialautotrip
Saturday, August 24, 2019
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A “Hey, Dom! How’re ya doin’?” video
Publication Date: Saturday, August 24, 2019
Name: Mentoring
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Thursdays Dinner posted on
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steak House during Restaurant Week in Boston was a nice setting for a terrific meetup with a lifelong friend, a great guy, Anthony Cintolo, with whom I have dinner twice a year during Restaurant Weeks.
The Steakhouse offered a choice of a salad and a soup, a very nice steak, and a tasty Bread Pudding.
Service was excellent.
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Saturday, August 24, 2019
This from Kali L:
Dear Dom & Readers:
22 years ago this week I gave the eulogy at my grandmother's funeral. I was 11 and wore a black and white polka dot dress. I consider that my first public speaking event. My first poetry reading was in my grandmother's living room; my bare feet sinking into the orange shag carpet. She was my first poetry fan - she loved the line I wrote at age 6 "her eyes shine like diamonds in the night sky." It was never going to be a literary masterpiece but it was my big break.
This week I am going to mark the day in a black and white polka dot dress and bring my poetry to her grave and have a nice chat with her. On Friday, I say goodbye to another loved one who had a heart that shined bright like a diamond in the sky. His love will always be a miracle to me. How wonderful is it that I have loved and been loved dearly?
How do you mark weeks that can be difficult to navigate emotionally?
Always,
Kali
Web Meister responds: The brilliance of such moments is the fleeting dwelling in them, not sorrowfully, but rather marking the time as one of life's challenges that you've weathered.
Noting how it changed you.
Yes.
I remember.
What's on sale at Whole Foods this week?
love you
dom
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Chuckle of the day:
Saturday, August 24, 2019
A duo of questions.
Two questions, actually: Deciding on the elephant and getting down.
What do you do with an elephant with three balls?
Walk him and pitch to the giraffe.
How do you get down from an elephant?
You don’t.
You get down from a duck.
Chuckle, please.
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Today’s Thumbnails
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter.
She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music.
She signed with label Big Machine Records and became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the U.S., where it peaked at number five.
The album's third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Hot Country Songs chart.
Swift performing during the Speak Now World Tour in 2012
Eva Rinaldi
Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the success of pop crossover singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless became the best-selling album of 2009 in the U.S.
The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Swift performing during her Reputation Stadium Tour in May 2018
UltimateWarrior13 - Own work
Swift was the sole writer of her 2010 album, Speak Now.
It debuted at number one in the U.S. and the single "Mean" won two Grammy Awards.
Her fourth album, Red (2012), yielded the successful singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" and "I Knew You Were Trouble".
For her fifth album, the pop-focused 1989 (2014), she received three Grammys and became the first woman and fifth act overall to win Album of the Year twice.
Its singles "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", and "Bad Blood" reached number one in the U.S., Australia, and Canada.
Swift's sixth album, Reputation (2017), and its lead single, "Look What You Made Me Do", topped the UK and U.S. charts; with Reputation, she became the first act to have four albums sell one million copies within one week in the U.S.
Her seventh album, Lover (2019), has spawned two U.S. number-two singles, "Me!" and "You Need to Calm Down".
Having sold more than 50 million albums—including 32 million in the U.S.—and 150 million singles, Swift is one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
As a songwriter, she has received awards from the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and was included in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015.
Her other accolades include 10 Grammy Awards, one Emmy, 23 Billboard Music Awards, six Guinness world records, and appearances in Time's 100 most influential people in the world (2010, 2015, 2019).
She also ranked first in the Forbes Celebrity 100 (2016 and 2019), and was the youngest to be featured in the magazine's listing of the 100 most powerful women (2015).
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Acknowledgements
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Thanks to Kali L for keeping it real.
And to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Saturday, the twenty-fourth day of August, 2019
I have a picture or two of Taylor.
I love her so much.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.