Day: December 23, 2025

I’m not technical
just don’t have the mind
or the aptitude for it
so, it’s surprising that
I began using Linux
instead of Windows
many years ago

at first it was daunting
but with research
and problem solving

I began using and
loving Linux
free, opensource,
less vulnerable
to being hacked
than using Windows

I’m using Ubuntu now
used Linux Mint
for many years
might change to Debian
the source of Ubuntu
and many other Linux
flavors

Oh, how I love Linux.

Bob Boyd

I remember about three years ago
at the vintaged age of 70 and 7
To my disbelief, I was in a hospital
cancer, the doctors said
I couldn’t believe it, seemed impossible
hadn’t drank alcohol since age 27
didn’t smoke, rarely ate red meat
no cancer in my family

yet there I was diagnosed with,
mercifully, a slow moving blood cancer
that wasn’t about to kill me speedily
when the reality finally dawned on me
when the seriousness of the condition
became fully apparent to me

to my surprise, I didn’t give a damn
a woman I knew back then when I
worked for nonprofit helping the elderly
said it was higher power, as if the Divine
had a hand in my indifference

but it felt as if somehow I’d gotten
a Zen attitude despite the fact the cancer
was hellbent on killing me with Grim in tow
and eventually with close to a year of
infusions and medications it went away

one thing I know that helped with my indifference
as now, as then, I didn’t have a woman in my life
had I a girlfriend or a wife, I would have worried
about her worrying about me and been anxious about
dying and leaving her alone and being without her.

Bob Boyd

She’s blonde, she’s beautiful
she speaks perfect English
she lives somewhere in Ukraine

despite the war with Russia
where she lives you see no signs
of the wreckage. the annihilation, of war
no bomb blasts, no buildings demolished

life is going on just like here in the USA
people strolling nonchalantly in the streets
stopping to shop at local stores

except for one tragic reminder
on her YouTube profile, she wrote
widow of combat pilot, who died in the war.

Bob Boyd