Avatar – the movie. A few thoughts.

by Ken on January 24, 2010

We saw Avatar twice – both in 3-D.  It is a visually stunning  work of art. It is a creative triumph for James Cameron and his team of  amazing craftsmen. Our second time was at an IMAX 3-D in Orlando – even more stunning.  I recommend this movie to anyone.
The setting is a forested [...]

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POCKETS

by Ken on January 10, 2010

As a fellow of a few years I have watched styles come and go. My short hair of the early 70’s was spurned by most every one of my peers most of whom sported the long, even shoulder-length hair. Yet look around today. Young folks have their hair cropped to nothing. The longer haired folks [...]

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An Old Dog – New Lessons.

by Ken on November 24, 2009

Learning is a lifetime experience. Being humble or being able to be humbled is skill that I think some of us lose – to our own detriment.
I’ve been a pilot, as of this writing, for over 37 years. I’ve lost friends to the sport but have many, many more who are alive and well today [...]

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Paul Harvey was a National Treasure

by Ken on November 22, 2009

In 1964, the late radio commentator Paul Harvey broadcast the following commentary.
It bears repeating today.
America has become a cannibal society, devouring its best. The competent, numerically outnumbered by the incompetents, are being corralled, restrained, confined and milked like barnyard cattle. The giants who created our skyscraper civilization are now ordered to obey Lilliputian [...]

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Father and Son and one airplane.

November 14, 2009

Bryan and I finished our trip today (Monday 2 Aug 1999).
We were gone 10 days (9 nights) and covered 19 states with highlights in Branson Missouri, the Tuskeegee Airmen training field in Alabama, Ozarks of Arkansas, a Flight Service Station in Nebraska, the Badlands, Custer, Mount Rushmore and Wind Cave in South Dakota, Devil’s Tower [...]

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Pictures are worth (di da di da di da)

October 3, 2009
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Greensleeves

August 24, 2009

Have always found this to be a simple but beautiful melody from days gone by. Like many of us I first heard it as “What Child is This” during Christmas season.
I’ve got two cameras running and am recording this with an MAudio Board, and a Sonar 7 setup. All is put together in Media Studio.
Music [...]

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Night and Day by Cole Porter

August 24, 2009

I wrote a piece about my mother (posted on KenRisley.com). There I spoke of a dream (nightmare actually) I had as a young boy as I drifted off to sleep to my mother’s playing of this song on the piano. For years I did not like the melody not realizing the association. In my mid [...]

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Thomas Jefferson (a quote)

August 3, 2009

“Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the rightful limits of their powers; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all [...]

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Several Key Points in the current Health Bill (as of July 2009)

August 3, 2009

While the Health Care System really needs reform, the current bill is not the right thing to do — it is an expensive catastrophe in the making. Please take the time to look at a few of the cited points below.
This is Brave, New World stuff — and not good [...]

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Healthcare Reform – Yes; This monstrosity – No!

August 3, 2009

We hear folks tearing down the current system as well as the proposed government system. Tearing down proposals does not solve the problem.
Allowing free markets to work is the best way. The word “free” means just that. What we have today, though not government in genesis, is still highly dominated by rules that favor corporations [...]

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The Burning Question – “Was I heard?”

August 1, 2009

We are, or have been, burdened by countless communications that were never acknowledged. These communications hang there, like little armed bombs; owning us and dictating so many of our actions; in wait for that simple and certain acknowledgment. Each unacknowledged communication takes a piece of us and freezes it in a moment of waiting. Stilled, [...]

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