"Relative to Earth, the Sun is a gigantic thermal power plant; relative to the Milky Way it is a tiny luminous point of medium brightness that would be hard to find in the outer arms of the spiral. And this point of light is circled by a blue speck, a million times smaller, on which a very strange species roams of late, regarding itself as very big and important."
- Gerard Staghun, US Physicist
The first two pictures are of a fish class boat belonging to the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. They were taken about 1944.
Miles in Navy uniform. The location is the St. Petersburg Yacht Basin.
Above - Sailing with my mother on Tampa Bay
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Above is Dr. Bill Jennings' 42-foot schooner "Mistress." The small boat being towed is the pram that I built. "Doc Jennings" later became…
DENTAL SURPRISE!
I have always taken the best care of my teeth that I could. With lots of tooth decay that began in childhood or adolescence, most of my teeth had been filled and refilled several times by the age of 20. When I was about 50 years old, I had all the amalgam removed, and gold or gold/ceramic crowns installed. By this time, I also had several "root canal" jobs.
Some people are vehemently opposed…
There are three truths which are absolute and cannot be lost, but yet may remain silent for lack of speech.
The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendor have no limit.
The principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and eternally beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but is perceived by the man who desires perception.
Each man is his…
THRILLS OF AN AIR FORCE PILOT
In these pages I tell stories and show pictures that are still vivid in my memory. Question: What makes memories vivid and long lasting? Answer: Intensity. Nearly every flight I made was intense, and so I have memories from parts of hundreds of flights. My total flying time, including student pilot, was 6,441 hours, which is quite a lot for military flying.
These pictures and notes are from my days in the World War II Navy V-12 and Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at Duke University, Durham, NC. The period was from November 1, 1943 to February 28, 1946.
I should mention that I was too small to enter sports with "the big guys," so I did the types of things where size didn't matter. I weighed only 118 pounds when I arrived, and about 130 at graduation. …
When I started on this adventure at age 84, I had serious doubts whether I could still do this sort of thing. After all, it had been 44 years since I did any piloting. First I had three rides at a soaring club, with the intention that I would become a member and get "checked out." But they had only one instructor, they fly only on weekends, and the numbers ahead of me grew from one…
This is a picture of me with my father, taken about 1931 (I was born in 1925). We were staying for the weekend in a beach cottage owned by a friend. How modest everyone was! I was told that it was against a St. Petersburg city ordinance to appear on Central Avenue in a bathing suit.
At age 13 I had an accident…
NOTES ON CANCER TREATMENTS
Here is the story of my experience with cancer and cancer treatments. What follows is pretty serious material, because cancer is serious business. I know exactly how it feels to have a medical doctor say, "You have cancer." Of course, some of what follows is my opinion, but most is factual. I think you can tell the difference.
Most of this page was written before I learned about The China Study. Now I…