Archive For October 31, 2017

The Retirement Party

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The Retirement Party

The young redhead on the left one Halloween. The young redhead another Halloween. On the way out the door.

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Happy Halloween

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Happy Halloween

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. – Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night…

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Confessions Of A Dog Lover

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Confessions Of A Dog Lover

There are some dogs too wild to live among men. – Barker Ajax Sounded like a howl for help.  Looked like self-abuse. Not the fun kind. Sedimentary.  Layer upon layer of change. Simultaneously at the same time, he changed careers, moved cross-country, got serious with a new lady. He was broke. He had divorced his…

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I Got You, Babe (On The Occasion Of Her Retirement)

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I Got You, Babe (On The Occasion Of Her Retirement)

The young redhead retires the end of the month.  Halloween.  Can’t make this stuff up.  Might talk her into putting on our karaoke costumes [photo below] and doing the night right.  As long as we get home before dark.  I am scared of zombies. – JDW “I Got You Babe” [HER:] They say we’re young and…

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What Are You Afraid Of?

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What Are You Afraid Of?

The fears we don’t face become our limits. – Robin Sharma Didn’t want you to miss this.  One of those don’t-know-whether-to-cry-or-laugh things.  Fascinating on so many levels. Why no question about killer clown zombies?  Or a mother’s wrath.  – JDW

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Florida. Not Just Another Red State

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Florida. Not Just Another Red State

Found an old, old note.  Something scribbled in college.  Said note said, “I have always wanted to see Florida, so I have been saving these words about Florida by the esteemed poet James Dickey since I found them in the October, 1974 issue of PLAYBOY.”  Which I was just reading for the articles.  A dollar-twenty-five well…

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Advice From An Old Man

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Advice From An Old Man

Advice from an old man to a young man who thinks he’s in trouble. You are not wrong, my friend. Here’s part of the whole enchilada in a nut shell. Which sounds like a new dish at Taco Bell. Do not beat yourself up. That’s what the rest of the world is for. You.  You gotta…

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A Decade on the Roads: 1980-1989

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A Decade on the Roads: 1980-1989

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal. ― George Sheehan Think of…

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A Loss Teaches

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A Loss Teaches

Poker is my game.  And I no longer play.  Can’t sit that long anymore. Played poker because I love to compete.  Love to win.  Hate losing. Poker is more than a game, it’s an education.  Lot like distance running. Lot like life.   Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every…

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Meanwhile, Sarah Hannibal Lecter Is On Television Still Talking

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Meanwhile, Sarah Hannibal Lecter Is On Television Still Talking

In a surprise reveal on Tuesday, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake announced that he will not seek reelection in 2018, becoming the second Republican in the upper chamber to forgo a campaign next year. Like Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, who made a similar announcement last month, Flake has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration….

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