{"id":5849,"date":"2020-09-26T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2020-09-26T10:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T14:58:58","slug":"episode-127-fall-colours-sept-2020-with-an-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=5849","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 127 Fall colours… sept. 2020 with an explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 127     FALL COLOURS\u20262020    (with an  explanation)<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Sept .2020<\/div>\n

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Here  are some of the fall colours that I am sending early  so that some of you or all of you can <\/div>\n
get out and see them.  <\/div>\n

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What about finishing the Violence theme?  I  know\u2026I know.  The story is written but has to be changed.    <\/div>\n

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I know or at least I hope you are looking forward to Part 2 of the Little Finger Story.  The reason I  am reticent to send it is that it seems<\/div>\n
too egocentric.  Who wants to hear about nice things that happen to some people. Who really cares  about my life story?  That is my<\/div>\n
problem,  The damn story just seems too egocentric.   When I get the nerve to send  it please forgive.<\/div>\n

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 My last year of high school made me very nervous.  There were failures.  It took me some time to understand that failures are common<\/div>\n
in life.  Lots  of them.  The important things is the response to failure.   That last year in high school taught me that great lesson.<\/div>\n
And then it turned into one of the best years of my life\u2026followed by wonderful years at university.  It is written but I think I have to reduce<\/div>\n
the good things\u2026sounds vain… like too much bragging. Like sitting with a person who only talks about himself or herself\u2026triggering one<\/div>\n
thought,  \u201cHow the hell can I get away!”<\/div>\n

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Here is a twist.   Someone asked me once why I went to university of Toronto back in 1959.  My answer<\/div>\n
came immediately.  \u201cHopefully to find  a wife.\u201d  The way I figured out my life was that most things passed by\u2026some in days, others months<\/div>\n
and years.  But marriage could  be a lifetime so therefore was  more important than all  others.<\/div>\n

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How does this  connect to Football and my broken little finger?   Well, if I have the nerve you will see in the next Episode.  Meanwhile<\/div>\n
here are some pictures that are best right now.  In a month they will be skeletons.<\/div>\n

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Let me put this story differently.  I hope readers  can look back at their lives and see that good  things happened sometimes  in the<\/div>\n
darkest hours.  When I taught high school some outstanding students  worried me the most.  They had never tased  failure and<\/div>\n
when failure happened as it does  in life they might have the greatest difficulty handling it.   The kids that tasted failure seemed  to<\/div>\n
have the best chance of success.   Too much failure, of course, is deadly.  <\/div>\n

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Will I have the nerve to send Episode 128?  Maybe.  <\/div>\n

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Meanwhile \u2026 get outside if you can\u2026find a tree.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Sept. 25, 2020<\/div>\n

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P.S.   As I write this note on the last Saturday morning in September 2020, the Covid 19 cases are surging.   When I started writing these<\/div>\n
Episodes I expected them to number around  14 not 127.   We are in troubled times for sure so take care.   Our leadership at the top seems<\/div>\n
sound so let\u2019s take the simple advice\u2026wear a mask, wash your hands and keep socially distant.  You can do that and  still enjoy<\/div>\n
the fall colours.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 127     FALL COLOURS\u20262020    (with an  explanation) alan skeoch Sept .2020 Here  are some of the fall colours that I am sending early  so that some of you or all of you can  get out and see them.   What about finishing the Violence theme?  I  know\u2026I know.  The story is written […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}