On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Eidetic Episodes and Hard-Wiring in the Brain The link between the word eidetic and the concept of hardwiring in the brain is a marriage of understanding of why humans remember some things and...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Floyd Was A Tie Hacker Charles Kuralt and Bob Simons had a few things in common. Both were writers who gained their inspiration in places far from the office. They did not tell...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Mango is my Last Name, Ataulfo is my First Name This week marked the arrival of a welcome trend in advertising. Inasmuch as the Footloose Forester is suspicious of many of the deceptions in marketing techniques, the new...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Major-Colonel One aspect of being a contractor in service to US Government agencies was the overall accommodation we were given to housing, the use of post exchanges and government-operated transportation, and other services. That...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Gulf Between Subjectivity and Objectivity There is no line between subjectivity and objectivity. There is a gulf. People often speak out with the pretension of authority in their voice, a loud din of force...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Searching for the Right Ingress One of the frustrations that we all share in our lives is our personal limitation on how to broach a subject, how to open a conversation, how to respond,...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Forests as Picture Puzzles Open a picture puzzle box that shows the picture of a green coniferous forest on the outside, and every adolescent and adult in the family will discover an unsorted pile...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Lake Tahoe, Silver Dollars, and Piñon Pine Those halcyon days working as a consultant forester in California in the 1960s salted the memory banks of the Footloose Forester with many, many fond reveries of adventures. Some jobs were...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek My Camel is Named Uunt As Father George Westwater told it, when President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Bashir, the camel driver, what his camel’s name was… well. Bashir was on camera, sitting atop a camel as the...
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1/31/2021 “The path of least resistance is rarely the path of wisdom” Tim Cook, Apple CEO 2021 Ask yourself what path are you one now that could be a 10% upgrade or a 20% upgrade. What will be the difference at the end of the 10% journey and the...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Walkin’ Along My Merry Way Some people may think that walking from the airport to town is unusual, but walking was a job requirement of the Footloose Forester . Once you left the road to enter into the...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rowboat to Troopship A landlubber like the Footloose Forester always felt at home with the sound of granite sand under his boots, the firm landings of his bare feet in beach sand, and the...
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When I became eligible for the World War II draft, I was declassified from 1A to 1B because I was married. The war had ended and soon the Korean war started, and for the same reason I was ineligible. I was married with children. When our sons became of draft age,...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek 501 Moosic Road, Old Forge, Pennsylvania Just as some tunes and jingles run recurringly through our heads when a new song or advertising slogan begins to catch on, the address of a former teacher...
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Anyone who's been writing legacy stories here in the Legacystories.org archive surely must've read one or many of Dick Pellek's amazing stories. Dick has been a member for over a decade, and has read many new stories from members as they are published, commenting on most. I never met Dick but...
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In the air…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek BEA, BOAC, Pan Am, Where Did You Go? As he anticipates another 10,000-mile round trip sojourn to Hawaii to keep a promise to his deceased wife, the Footloose Forester is getting lost...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On The Map…Again!!! Maps, mapping, staring at maps, and using them as informative tools have always been integral to a footloose wanderer who usually consulted with them before planning an...
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We are planning new Legacy services for 2022. Legacy Stories wants to enable everyone to record their stories and pass on their wisdom to future generations. STAY TUNED !
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Ambitions Only when the Footloose Forester reviewed the presumed acknowledgment/comment box for Ambitious about students in his class, as reported in the for-profit website called Classmates, did he even think about himself...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Sooner or Later, It Was Going to be About Dodge City The On the road…again!!! Chronicles of the Footloose Forester were tucked away in his mental notebook for many years. Many came to light...
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