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Mist Opportunities

That phrase seems to have embedded itself in my mind. It's about all those things you "coulda, shoulda, woulda." It's not a unique thought and it runs along the lines of "Youth is wasted on the young", and "the older I get, the better I was." All this while I contemplate my 40th high school reunion. Frightening! Anyway, back to the phrase. It seems to me that most people have regrets about what could have been. I certainly do. But it's easy to second-guess yourself, when making the unfair comparison between fantasy and reality. Reality is solid ground, fantasy is by definition shaped only by yourself; ephemeral and easily evaporated when looked at closely. Hence "Mist" instead of "Missed." I'm actually not an optimist by nature, but thinking of the past in this way, has helped me be more present. Or to borrow a blunt but insightful saying from AA, "If you have one leg in the past and one leg in the future, you're pissing on the present!"

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Blog-Guilt

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Yes. Social Media for Jews! I haven't blogged or vlogged in a very long time. Lots of excuses, but I still feel guilty about it. So I'll try to overcompensate by talking about a lot of things. First of all, I got this great flip camera from my friends at  Jivox! I'm somewhat of a video snob, preferring the prosumer cameras from Panasonic and Sony, but this little thing is really cool. It's like an iPod for video! So, I made a video of my dog Beauty, and it came out pretty well.

So, do you notice how everyone is starting sentences with the word "so"? It's the new "you know", I think. So, I'll try not to use it. I've been very busy on you tube with the Johnson & Johnson health channel, and in fact, we're advertising on blip! A colleague of mine, Marc Monseau, author and editor of JNJ BTW, did a podcast with Mark Senak, who runs the blog, Eye on FDA. So, I mean, anyway, it's been really cold, snowy and wintry in New Jersey, so maybe that's why I haven't been blogging (?) Oh, we're also going to get a new puppy, a Portuguese Water Dog (no, not just because Barack might be getting one), to keep Beauty company. There, I feel much better now, I blogged. Now I can relax and worry about something else.

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