All posts by jmp

The rubber band is stretching ever farther with each passing year. That fundamental aspect of our lives, the economy, is showing less familiarity with the principals on which it’s supposed to be based and more in common with hoodoo and flimflam. Employment is a daily walk on a rickety bridge above a pool of quicksand. Read More

At a certain stage of life, you begin to look around at your contemporaries. You see a chart like this and you say to yourself, “Self, there’s a testament to the value of clean living!” Right? Well, how else to ‘splain it? The thing is, we know some of these folks, have seen them in Read More

Do you dream? What I mean is do you have a dream? At this stage of life, wherever that might be, do you still have some idea out there on the far horizon of your reality you would like to have happen, something you dream about actually coming to be? We might think dreaming is Read More

Ranting and raving. That seems to be the state of discourse today. Everybody’s got something to say, most of them are angry, and even if they aren’t all that perturbed, working up a head of steam is good business because sensationalism is what sells. The ideal is a car wreck and we all are bystanders Read More

We’ve been discussing in the past two issues of this newsletter our belief that the mighty United States of America is at an inflection point. We’re reached a place where dramatic change is merited. All the fears we instinctively harbor about the unknown, the uncertain, the unproven, about trying something different, pale in the face Read More

We talked in our previous edition about believing an inflection point is coming in the affairs of this country. The level of absurdity in our public affairs has reached an end place. The illustration above portrays a series of inflection points in the development of a business, that essential focal point of the free enterprise Read More

Do you hold your doctor in high esteem? There once was a time when healthcare professionals, and especially those exalted physicians among them, were ranked by us at the very top of the order among professionals. That was back in the days when they actually made the decision about the care you needed to receive, Read More

Ain’t springtime grand? For all the clickbait news and weather coming our way that promises one sort or another of gloom and doom, a leisurely stroll outside, maybe along Bear Creek nestled there in that bank of trees to the right, tells a different story. Our little town churns through all the typical ups and Read More

Photo by Billy Freeman on Unsplash Have you ever made a documentary? Have you ever tried to make one and maybe it didn’t work out? Me either. Well, let me hip you to a little secret: the folks at Radio Active, the Freeform Radio Project we have housed at our website (HERE), have big dreams Read More

In the last TQT, we wrote about Six Degrees of Separation, a dependable equation that manifests one’s personal connection to our collective humanity, especially when you’re engaged in a project of any scale. Somebody you know knows somebody who knows somebody who within six such progressions links all of us together. We mentioned radio station Read More