Archive For The “Wild Dog” Category
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. – Albert Camus The old man finished cleaning his AR-15. Extra magazines, thirty cartridges each. A bump stock. Still legal. Wanted to wear a couple of bandoleros crisscrossing his chest, but thought…
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book. – Ursula K. Le Guin DeSantis Gala Red Hat Ladies Night Suspected drag queens read books. He arrests them all. Bachelor Auction @ The Villages…
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be. – Konrad Lorenz Ragnar Brutha Gonzo turns four years old today. That’s twenty-eight in dog years. Practically a career. All dog. He will chase a cat, he will dig a hole in your yard. One hole, to…
“He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel more ferocious, and more intelligent. He had to become all these things, else he would not have held his own nor survived the hostile environment in which he…
To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed I have a great deal of knowledge about drugs, and not necessarily how you might think. Not unnecessarily either. My degree of expertise seemed kinda funny when I married a Drug Court Administrator. Felt less weird after she…
Vital lives are about action. You can’t feel warmth unless you create it, can’t feel delight until you play, can’t know serendipity unless you risk. – Joan Erickson Back in the day, the old man was hired to provide security on a, how should I put this, oh, yeah, an organic farm in the foothills of…
“It’s not drinking alone if the dog is home.“ “There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens, you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens, you drink…
When nothing around you makes sense, everything is equally threatening. – Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit Stephen J. “Stevo” Beard is gone forever and I know I will never hear from him again. I disappeared myself for a decade or so, or so it seems. Happy to reconnect with Mr. Beard. And when he would go…
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore. – Leonard Cohen Used to go to Key West. Many miles away, eight hours, likely longer, expensive it seemed several years ago. An all-night party town unnecessary for folks in bed by ten. Cedar Key, maybe ninety minutes drive. Everything feels thirty percent cheaper. More…
WIFE is an acronym for Woman I Forever Enjoy. – Barker Ajax My patient third wife exactly what I needed right when she found me.