tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61958657498679638542011-12-23T22:02:43.454-05:00gwfrink3George W. Frink, IIIGeorge Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-10341629869407031512010-07-23T16:15:00.001-04:002010-07-23T16:21:00.871-04:00Our pale, blue dotBy Carl Sagan:[HT: PZ Myers]George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-710776285231731142010-04-04T12:25:00.002-04:002010-04-04T12:31:50.284-04:00Happy holidays, unless you're depressed"Blessed Easter," which sails through summer to "Happy Thanksgiving," and becomes "Joy to the world."Unless you have the holiday blues -- an often debilitating, sometimes dangerous and occasionally deadly disease.Holiday depression is so commonplace and so hard to recognize that the Mayo Clinic has a Web page devoted to it, and depression support Web sites have whole archives devoted to the George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-63336780868272401522009-11-25T16:31:00.001-05:002009-11-25T16:33:30.275-05:00This is the season of my griefFour decades have passed since my maternal grandfather, B.L. Hinnant, used his favorite target pistol on himself. That was in 1965, two years after my maternal grandmother. Ruth Hinnant [.pdf], was killed in a car/train accident. She was killed on Oct 7, 1963, at the railroad crossing half a mile from the house where I grew up -- killed because she was hurrying to bring the court order which sheGeorge Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-34436728060851195222009-11-25T07:35:00.002-05:002009-12-12T13:11:58.972-05:00Lisa MacIlwinen stopped by for a momentOne need not believe in visions to have them.I don't, and yet I do.The red-blonde girl in her teens who looked through my kitchen door as I drifted up from sleep on the living room couch, was similing. Her smile was full of unaffected love and her expression was certain everything was and would be somehow alright.I had never seen that girl before, or the rumpled dress she wore, although I have George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-71403103736625590362009-11-25T06:58:00.003-05:002009-11-25T07:28:14.219-05:00Lisa MacIlwinen's farewellOne need not believe in visions to have them.I don't, and yet I do.The red-haired girl in her teens who looked through my kitchen door as I drifted up from sleep on the living room couch, was similing. Her smile was full of unaffected love and her expression was certain everything was and would be somehow alright.I had never seen that girl before, or the rumpled dress she wore, although I have George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-85313178891600427342009-11-22T14:52:00.000-05:002009-11-22T14:52:44.712-05:00Does she say, 'Those are the Frinks?'Yes, that would make him Frinkinstein, and he isn't. Sigh?George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-62436163456365928032009-11-02T08:46:00.003-05:002009-11-02T09:55:49.874-05:00Familial abandonment in The Da Vinci CodeSophie has a touch of sociopath. She has relatively little remorse for or understanding of the consequences of having abandoned her in fact devoted, honorable grandfather/father figure.George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-88939241231634277552009-10-05T13:20:00.002-04:002009-10-05T13:20:46.524-04:00Uncle Alf Jackson learned to love to carveGreat Uncle Alf Jackson, whose color and curl of hair and timbre of voice John MacIlwinen inherited and whose timber of voice George Rankin and I inherited, learned to love to carve and taught me how.He learned to love wood carving because the pressure of the carving knife in one hand and of the wood in the other stilled the trembling which had taken from the once skilled hunter his expert George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-58023669521186148202009-09-22T00:06:00.002-04:002009-09-22T00:11:22.601-04:00The more religious the sexual predator, the worse he isAn Australian study found exactly that.Another study found that predators see religious organizations as something like candy stores where the clerks aren't very smart.Read the entire blog entrty here.George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-29835718611977322742009-01-03T10:37:00.001-05:002009-01-03T10:39:39.913-05:00Hidden abused & exploited childrenDebut of United States of Tara drove me to reexamine the causes of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).Pedophilia leads the list.At Grace Uncensored I found ("trigger" warning):George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-82227786124433991722008-11-26T07:32:00.003-05:002008-11-26T07:39:16.289-05:00A last Thanksgiving?This may be our last Thanksgiving with blind Steve, with whom I shared February's lunar eclipse.Read the rest here.George Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6195865749867963854.post-8842839120596182012008-11-14T06:39:00.000-05:002008-11-14T06:40:10.899-05:00Here I amHere I amGeorge Frinkhttps://profiles.google.com/103357428691579234498noreply@blogger.com0