Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
Another amazing tale you won’t believe, where your superannuated reporter drives through THE STORM FROM HELL, keeps pace with three 2:20ish marathoners and a three-time Conference Mile Champion and meets a future marathon star and gets a medicinal chocolate milk shake. There was also a big brown dog. WEDNESDAY, I walked Ragnar, cleaned up and…
Good Friday is the mirror held up by Jesus so that we can see ourselves in all our stark reality, and then it turns us to that cross and to his eyes and we hear these words, Father forgive them for they know not what they do. That’s us! – Robert G. Trache Happy Good Friday!…
We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in…
When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics. – Frank Ocean Hank didn’t kill himself. Depression killed my grandson. Hank was eighteen. 18. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among people ages 15-24. Hank loved math, it made sense to him. Me, not so much. But 19% seems…
Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It’s one of things you’ll have to get used to, as you get older. – David Eddings I go to Muhammad & Sons, a black barber shop run by a Muslim who prays in the back room. Up front we listen to R&B crooners…
The old man was way too slow. But he was still on the move. As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two. – Norman Wisdom…… Could I really have been born in the first half of the last century? I actually like being…
Sometimes, the best thing we can do for our patients is to tell them what the best behavior is and then negotiate something they can live with. – Nancy Dickey The Doctor Visit Happy it’s just pain. “Nothing we can do to help.” Hereditary. It is not age that’s important. What is your condition? How…
If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat. – Joyce Rachelle My name is Barker Ajax and I am a deranged maniac serial killer. Never got caught. And this is NOT my confession. Because I never killed anybody. Not yet. Not that anybody knows about. Not yet. What really pisses me off –…
Does it change the myth of Sisyphus for you to learn that Sisyphus is paid? – Errol Morris ‘Make America Great Again’ is an expression which must raise a subsequent question. Because it is a puzzle. What era would that be? Putting aside women and African-Americans and Mexican-Americans and Native Americans and gays, as was…
You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I’ll be very glad to be a song and dance man. — Gene Kelly I could not say no. The wife and I…