• Seven Decades

    Seven Decades is an offshoot from Oldsters View which is a news aggregation site specializing in digging out oddities in the news and putting them in a convenient place for you to read them. I try to avoid editorializing on Oldsters View and to keep my own random thoughts to a minimum. So Seven Decades will be the place for that. I hope you will find it interesting, and maybe, sometimes, relevant to your life.

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Going, going…

Posted on July 14, 2008 by oldstersview

Sunday afternoon I received a call from my long time secretary. Since retiring we have maintained contact from time to time but this time it was a contact I would just as soon not have had. She told me that she has just had surgery for brain cancer, a glioblastoma which is one of the [...]

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Fourth of July

Posted on July 4, 2008 by oldstersview

Today, the Fourth of July, marks the birth of the most unusual country that has ever existed. Never in the history of the Earth has there been a country so free, so successful and so generous as the United States. I’m proud to be a citizen of this country.

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    I’m putting this site together more for myself than for others. When you reach a certain age you begin to take a close look at what has happened in your life, what it all may mean, the structure of the “reality” you find yourself in and what you are doing here. Although I believe I know some of the answers I hope to discover more answers by writing. Although it may end up that way, in the beginning there will be not much structure, just things as they occur to me. Want to go for a ride?

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