Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! – Leo Buscaglia 💖 Feel a certainamount of prideI still get ads promoting, well, you know. Sex. Usually Medicare. AARP. Not fun. I knowfor a fact there’s hanky-panky going on…
There’s something vulnerable about the human condition, where people can transmute into something so astonishingly altered that whatever is left is wholly unrecognizable. – Craig D. Lounsbrough You may be an old man… If two cashiers are available, and you choose the funny black guy instead of the hot young blonde… If the hair on your…
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. – Albert Einstein 2022. It was the best of times and the most absurd of times: A war in Ukraine; a fight for democracy; the end of Roe; ketchup on the walls at Mar-a-Lago; fantastically awful candidates, and…
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower…
You said I was weak. You said I couldn’t do it. Thank you. You gave me everything I needed to prove you wrong. – Steve Prefontaine Eugene. Rented a car, drove south on I-5 with a retired long-haul trucker who hasn’t talked to me since. He too is a philosopher with multiple personalities and we…
How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people. – Gabby Rivera Portland? In a sentence?? The homeless here have better sleeping bags than I do. Later I see a panhandler setting up shop outside Ben & Jerry’s, writing a new clever sign why he needs your…
I’ll go through life either first class or third, but never in second. – Noel Coward Love to be places, hate what it takes to get there. Headed to the 2015 Prefontaine Classic. Tried to minimize the torment, upgraded, with hope to expense against a book deal that never came to fruition. Trip cost a…
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 Christmas Eve Three score and sixteen years ago. Seventy-six. 76. Nine hundred and twelve months. The first half of the last century. Possibly. Old. Now. Slept in until 0648. Must…
Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides. – Guy Finley Don’t know if my vote got…
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ― Epicurus Have a question I like to ask. Never stay around for the answer. Don’t give a shit really. The answer is yours. Somebody asked you when you…