Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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WELCOME!! Come onto this site and Read, or Write, without restrictions.
I’m Sal, also known as “The One and Only”. I’ve had to set this site up because of the constant problems I’ve been having with NEXTDOOR. Being 90, I have nothing else to do but tell of my adventures, and there were plenty! You’ll find that I end most sentences with an !, exclamation point,…
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Hello Mr. Sun
What I said to the Sun: I’m sitting here after my accident sitting in the beautiful chair that rocks and turns, and high in front of me is the Sun, who I have had a relationship all my life, from the time I was a little boy to the time I lived in Asia and…
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How do prepare my creation, Chicken Scarpiello
Today is the day I plan to make “Chicken Scarpello”, a dish I created over 50 years ago! since I never liked chicken breasts, I wanted to follow what my mother always told me about the meat inside the bones (marrow) of the chicken! The flavor from it adds more taste than the chicken meat…
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What’s happening on my site on Nextdoor
Good morning my friends on next-door I’ve just become to realize that the people who are jealous that run next-door have found away to get rid of me without blocking me. What they do is as soon as I write something and put it on next-door they say it’s spam and block it! I’m…
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Who am I….why I’m Sal “The One and Only”
All my life I talked to God by showing him what i can, and did for others! The first 50 years of my life I was a very, very strict Catholic, daily mass and all the other devotions expected! One day I had a confrontation with a priest and I then realized how controlling the…
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Just another day in my fun life!
Good morning everyone today is the 11th and I’m almost 91. But who cares I don’t feel that age I don’t actor age and I certainly don’t want to be that age thank you all whoever said happy birthday to me and I do appreciate it it’s just that I do see changes in my…
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All my life I always knew I could do anything!!
A new life story: One thing I never realized was that my body was very agile and my mind was perfect because I thought I could do anything, or at least try everything! Sometimes mistakenly would get hurt. This is a time when I was just beginning to work with my father, in the meat…
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Boy! Was I Shafted… but it was my own fault
Boy! Was I Shafted… but it was my own fault!! It was 1950 and I was working at a facility in White Plains, N. Y. that manufactured electrical cables that ran across the ocean. It was called Phelps Dodge and my job was at night starting at 7pm and ending at 2:00Pm. I was…
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This is when I wrote it—10/13/2013. It was 2 months before I almost died!
This is when I wrote it—10/13/2013. It was 2 months before I almost died! When I was 16, I loved going to my father’s place of business, a trucking company that he ran with his 4 brothers. It was called “THE FIVE “B” TRUCKING CO. He had 6 brothers, but the sixth and youngest one…
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Another great adventure
What is your shoe size? Actually, my shoe size is 11 but I don’t wear shoes, I’ve been wearing Chuck Taylors all of my life. Now it’s “11” Why did I want to wear Chuck Taylors, well because when I was 12 years old, I had listened to advertisements on the radio of famous famous…
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Sal
What is your birthdate? 10/15/1932, or 10/14/1932 What was your full name at birth? Salvatore Anthony Bianco Jr. Were you named after a relative or someone else of significance? Named after my father Were you born in a hospital? If not, where? No,in our home at 250 Mulberry Street on the fifth floor walkup and…
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