2 years to the hour, near as I can figure, since I last saw you. And after all we had, you abandoned me utterly after making a big deal I saying you would be my friend for life: my best friend. I asked you a few times at least if you would still be my friend as you deleted/blocked/ignored me in stages. You always said yes. After everything we had together, you never even said goodbye. Just left me to be crushed, in stages, realizing but still wondering that you didn’t want me anymore, but never hearing it from you. Not even goodbye. For all my faults, and they are many, I would never have done that to you.

1 year 363 days 22 hours and some minutes ago, a little after we laughed and kissed and hugged and took pictures of each other in and out of the sandy beach surf at dusk , I turned back to you at the airport and shouted, “I love you, Bear!” Since then, I’ve come to realize how painful and empty life is when the person whom you both love most in the world and across your entire life despises you, wants nothing to do with you, and never wants to talk to you or see you again. It is a dark place of sorrow that doesn’t end, that can’t end, really, considering the above fact. The fact I realize I lived in such a way and am such a “bad person”, at least in the sense of living awfully, to have caused this and to deserve this doesn’t make it better. If anything, it makes it worse. I loved you, Jacqui, more than I ever have or ever will love anyone, whatever the facts show – or will show in the end. Chris

A YOUNG woman died from a heart attack caused by sexual excitement while watching porn, an inquest heard.

Too bad she had to die alone.

It’s about health, food, and the lies fed to us by the government so we buy manufactured and/or cheap garbage instead of human nourishment:

Oh my.

It is with great love that I wish Bear and all my other loved ones a fantastic day whatever or whomever you’re doing.

Brain fog.

Lack of energy.

Sinking mood.

Confusion.

Lack of motivation.

The list goes on and on. Rarely if ever was a more true article written than this by cardiologist, Dr. William Davis:

“This Is Your Brain on Wheat”

I highly recommend you read that, ponder whether it’s been true for you, and share it with your loved ones.

On the topic of happiness, here’s what second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

… for what is now the most powerful economy in the world had to say about it.

What a beautiful sentiment, however imperfectly realized. That a nation is founded on the principle of its people being safe and free to pursue happiness for themselves, families, and friends.

The man who wrote that was American founder and former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.

From Jefferson’s letter to William Short:

“As you say of yourself, I TOO AM AN EPICUREAN. I consider the genuine doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us. Epictetus, indeed, has given us what was good of the Stoics.”
— Thomas Jefferson

These 2 philosophers came up with different ideas on how to achieve happiness in this life. Both have been influential on my thinking and, yes, attitude.

If you’re open to new or even Classical ideas you can use yourself or share with others who need them on how to “Live the good life”, then I invite you to watch these 2 mega-condensed concise summaries ears wide open and pen in hand.

First up, Epicurus:

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