sense of doubt

Though the current project started as a series of posts charting my grief journey after the death of my mother, I am no longer actively grieving. Now, the blog charts a conversation in living, mainly whatever I want it to be. This is an activity that goes well with the theme of this blog (updated 2018). The Sense of Doubt blog is dedicated to my motto: EMBRACE UNCERTAINTY. I promote questioning everything because just when I think I know something is concrete, I find out that it’s not.

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1204 (SoD #1962) - The Year I Was Born

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1204 (SoD #1962) - The Year I Was Born

Hi Mom, I will keep this post somewhat simple as I have a tendency to overdo it and tomorrow's will be huge as the weekly hodge podge comes a day early due to July 4th.

Sense of Doubt Blog enters a historic time. And now we embark on 58 days of posts that will all be meaningful to me (and to some of you, too) as the numbers mirror years through which we have lived.

Today's post #1962 matches the year I was born, 1962.

And since I am so close to the five year anniversary of your death, Mom, I thought it would be nice to share some thoughts on 1962 and some of the pictures and blog posts I have devoted to the year of my birth.

So, many things happened in 1962, such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, Marilyn Monroe singing happy birthday to President Kennedy, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, riots as James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi and becomes the first African-American student at that school, NASA's botched first moon lander Ranger 3, Kennedy establishes a consumer bill of rights to protect people from misleading advertising and other fraud, Seattle finishes building the Space Needle, and of course, my favorite bit of news...

United States --- Spider-Man

Marvel's Spider-Man superhero makes his first appearance in a comic.

More Information for Spiderman's First Appearance. In June the iconic Marvel superhero Spider-Man made his first appearance in the Amazing Fantasy #15 comic. The issue was dated for August but had actually hit the shelves in June. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, Spider-Man was a teenage superhero whose nerdy alter-ego Peter Parker represented adolescent concerns and teenage tribulations in a way that no other comic book superhero had been able to previously. Many teen readers connected to the character making him one of the most popular and enduring comic series characters in history.

The People History -- Steve Pearson http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1962.html

And born the same day as I was, a woman who would grow up to be convicted for the murder of two women committed with her boyfriend for which she received the death penalty in 1990 and is still awaiting execution. She insists that she suffered abuse and was brainwashed.

Coffman's attorneys say that she loved Marlow but that he battered, brainwashed and starved her, so she did not run from Marlow when the crime spree began.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Coffman_(murderer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_in_the_United_States

January 19 – Cynthia Coffman, convicted murderer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_in_the_United_States

And some news reels...

PAST BLOGS AND PHOTOS OF ME IN 1962

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #501- January 29, 1962

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #502 - The Tower Family - October 1962

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #529 - Me and Mom 3 1/2 Months

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #596 - Me and Mom 3.5 months 1962-Photo Series One #16

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1067 - Me and Mom - Early April 1962 - Throwback Thursday for 1806.07

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you soon, Mom.

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- Days ago = 1826 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2007.02 - 10:10

NEW (written 1708.27 and 1907.04) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. Dropped "Talk to you tomorrow, Mom" in the sign off on 1907.04. Should have done it sooner as this feature is no longer daily.

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SENSE OF DOUBT STATUS AS OF 0705.04 - 16:45

Sense of Doubt is not currently dedicated to any themes or special interest. The subject matter is mine and may range from comic books to ultimate or from Baseball to feminist-centered media criticism. Until I feel I have enough content for multiple blogs, or until I am seized with a desire to create multiple blogs, this is it, and appropriately so. "Sense of Doubt" came about in Bowie’s Berlin period and the dark, ambient collaborations with Brian Eno. Like the Bowie of 1978, I have my own darkness that steals over me and through me, infecting everything. At the risk of sounding far too melodramatically obsessed with my own self-flagellations, this blog dedicates itself to that darkness, that infection. But it’s fun, too. Hey, I can be amusing? Or not. It’s the way of the [w]rench. Neurosis compelling action in insecure double-checking and misunderstanding evasions. It is my way.

More from the original description text that needed editing in 2015: Furthermore, Sense of Doubt is dedicated to the random. The theme is no theme. Just questions, doubt, and uncertainty. Feel the power of not knowing the answer. So dedicated on the last day of July 2006 by the Galactic Monkey Wrench.

The Galactic Monkey Wrench

This is the logo of the Galactic Monkey Wrench. I was given the nickname Galactic Monkey Wrench in college by a friend of mine who felt that I threw the monkey wrench into the cosmos at every available opportunity. Later, in discussions with my best friend, who is the Lord of Chaos (the Loc), he asked for my title and when I told him, without thinking, he blurted out "the gmr!" Since this was random and we appreciate randomness, I became the gmr, even though technically I should be the gmw. But gmw sounds like a car or some industrial manufacturing firm that makes a strange widget of which one has never heard. This acronym fetish may make no sense to anyone else, but my friend and I are quite driven to provide acronyms for many things. At the very least, it allows us to keep our conversations obscure and often private as no one knows about what we're talking.

Monkey Wrench Books

Chris's books

A Feast for Crows

by George R.R. Martin

This book is a little slower than the others. But if you become invested in this series, it provides key information about the history of Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea. It may not contain chapters with my favorite characters ...

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

Do I really need to review this book? It's one of the best books I have ever read. Martin is a great writer. All the books are great, and I am loving my time rereading them. If you have not checked out these books, start here and get ready ...

The Golden City

by John Twelve Hawks

These books are immensely entertaining. Treat yourself to some strong writing, great action, compelling characters, and a mix of metaphysics and theology. The ending of this third book, which is presumably the last, is anti-climactic and so...

Pathfinder

by Orson Scott Card

This was a fun book. Not OSC's best but very good OSC nonetheless. The best thing about is the time travel, slowing, and speeding powers of the characters and how OSC engages the reader in discussion of causality and time paradox. For fans ...

Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

This book came to me via my wife Liesel who discovered it and urged me to read it. Beautifully written with compelling characters and a sense of the magical (yet realistic, somewhat). Funny yet full of the pathos that marks a good if not gr...

Hey, Mom! The Explanation.

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1204 (SoD #1962) - The Year I Was Born

United States --- Spider-Man

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