Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them. -Franklin D. Roosevelt Looking back on my military career, which lasted approximately three years, eleven months, twenty-three days, eighteen hours and thirty-two minutes, there’s a certain pride. Just for having served, mostly. I didn’t do…
One winter morning, a Friday still not so long ago, my mother was discovered dead in her recliner. The television played on.
Know she died the night before. Watching ‘Jeopardy.’ Vanna White probably turned the first letter and Mom hollered out the solution to the puzzle and passed away from the excitement.
Every artist was once an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson As some may know, I aspire to be an artist. So, when Cat (bottom left) asked her neighbor if she wanted to attend, too, I tagged along. Cost $110, if you bring a date. Yup, I took a Bob Ross painting class. Same age as…
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved. – George Sand MY PROMISE By Dan P. Brown If you were my rose, then I’d be your sun,painting you rainbows when the rains come.I’d change my orbit to banish the night,as to keep you in my nurturing light. If you were my…
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu End of April, 2024. Last year. Sent my good buddy Michael “Greenie” Greehan a piece of writing I stumbled across. “The Gold Coast” is a glimpse of his neighborhood a few decades ago. He asks, Are you coming back…
How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn’t matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it. – Sasha Shulgin My buddy’s brother…
Don’t know what it sold for, don’t care. What I care about is unworthy poseurs taking credit for others’ ideas. Ken Kesey at the ’80 Olympic Trials, Edward Abbey and Indigenous marathoners and, most definitely, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson at the 1980 Honolulu Marathon – all ideas presented to Nike BEFORE they purchased the magazine….
It’s not what you once did that counts the most, but what you keep doing. – John Kelley The Elder So slow, looking like a living fossil…. Closed a note to Benji Durden – “36 degrees at dawn. No snow.” Response – “We were 7.2° overnight and we have warmed to 8.2° now. It will…
The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own. – Morrie…
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot. – Steven Wright At the marijuana dispensary, the second thing they ask you is your age. “Three score and eighteen,” I offer brightly. “The first half of the last century.” Seventy-eight. 78. Nine…