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Dan Hennessy

Dan Hennessy

Finger Lakes Times

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TIMELY MATTERS: To uplift your soul, try a cemetery tour. Really

Given that the recently concluded presidential election was the most negative, hostile, divisive, and un-presidential such event of my lifetime, and...

16.11.2024 8

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TIMELY MATTERS: Aging gracefully ... like Grandpa Walton

In some ways I can’t believe I’m 68 years old. When did that happen? In other ways, I feel 168 years old. Usually at the end of the day. Then...

21.09.2024 9

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TIMELY MATTERS: Recalling 'wunnerful' times

“The work of memory collapses time.” — Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), philosopher, cultural critic, essayist I’ll never forget the day I...

10.08.2024 5

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TIMELY MATTERS: Staying young while growing old

“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions; it is the...

22.06.2024 4

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TIMELY MATTERS: Lyric inspirations — how life inspired Paul McCartney's songs

11.05.2024 50

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TIMELY MATTERS: Let's surf away from the 'net — reading books would be better

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little...

09.03.2024 20

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TIMELY MATTERS: A 'license to read' — A lifetime of reading, writing, thinking and dreaming ... about books

“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. ... In reading great literature I become a thousand men...

10.02.2024 10

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TIMELY MATTERS: Long books, hot tea — How to escape the insanity of today's world

“You can’t get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” — C.S. Lewis to Walter Hooper, as told by Hooper in a lecture at...

06.01.2024 7

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TIMELY MATTERS: To close our divide: Read — How 'A Christmas Carol' helped me come to that

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all...

16.12.2023 6

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