Touching The Future
With its grand tower soaring high above the tree line, it has always been an iconic landmark on the cityscape that surrounds this village on all sides, having embraced it almost a century ago. When my Great Aunt Helen stepped through those doors it would have been in the final years of the 1920s, perhaps early 30s, and what she learned within would take her … Continue reading Touching The Future
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At The Heart Of A Sweet Southern Woman
Sitting here in my nook, listening to music, incense going, chillaxing on my 4 day Family Day weekend, and its Sunday so the village is quiet. The sun has poked out a couple times this morn, so that’s a rare and welcome treat as well. Spent the last couple nights hanging out, drinkin’ a few beers with a friend, listening to the odd meowing every … Continue reading At The Heart Of A Sweet Southern Woman
How To Ruin Your Day For 30 Cents
So I’m yesterday morning waiting in line, picked up some groceries, when behind me approaches the guy who had just checked out before I got there – suede coat, wavy dirty blond hair to his shoulders, probably late 20s or early 30s – so now we’re both waiting in line. The cashier, TK, after he left turned to the woman at the lottery side of … Continue reading How To Ruin Your Day For 30 Cents
The Cost Of Losing Your Way
This may seem surprising, but I have a tendency towards more conservative minds, which may seem a bit strange coming from me. Now, to be clear, a conservative as in reserved and not one to grandstand, grounded in nature and spirit and not one to latch on to crazy ideas, conspiracies, and such. My family back in Dodge generally were conservative, as in what was … Continue reading The Cost Of Losing Your Way
How To Snow A Mad Hatter
That pervasive amorality at the heart of everything that surrounds that man down yonder continues to take up way more of my time then it should. Which is more or less one reason I figured I might as well just write about whatever I learn, you know, for it to have some higher purpose than driving me bat-shit crazy, day after day, week after week, … Continue reading How To Snow A Mad Hatter
Setting Free Those Captive Seasons By A Lake
That mound of humanity had been a desire of mine for years, and fear of being so far away from everything I had ever known lured me, and so I spent 6 years within that gigantic multicultural opportunity driven metropolis until I met Tim. What he found was a sad and lonely drunk wallowing in her grief, I was an easy mark, and so began … Continue reading Setting Free Those Captive Seasons By A Lake
Overthinking The Thinkers
Of late I have come to realize that I am not really all that good with labels. I find them, while useful in some incidences, on the whole kind of confusing, and tend to be more about what you are not than what you are. For me, that seems too limiting, and it presupposes some idea or concept that you either fit or do not. … Continue reading Overthinking The Thinkers
Learnings From A Right-Wing Rabbit Hole
Now, let us stray a bit off the beaten path and say first off that I am no more immune to propaganda than the next guy, we all have the things, people and places that for us invest more significance, and are more easily led astray by when these elements appear in concert with something we had previously just shelved as wrongheaded; well, at first. … Continue reading Learnings From A Right-Wing Rabbit Hole
Yes, Virginia, That Is Racist, But, And Other Dissenting Opinions
Recently whilst out hunting the snark, or next subject for a post, I came across this crew of smartypants out there in the wild, having these long, intellectual conversations – kind of ala My Dinner With Andre-esque, ‘cept without the restaurant as a backdrop. “ANDRÉ: Okay. Yes. We’re bored now. We’re all bored. But has it ever occurred to you, Wally, that the process which … Continue reading Yes, Virginia, That Is Racist, But, And Other Dissenting Opinions
Of Locke And The Tabula Rasa
After the, ahem, unimpeachable Trump, after the pompous chaotic command is relinquished, when he is finally gone from office, past whatever happens tomorrow, the day after, next month, next year, what will be will be. Sure… yes I’ve been thinking…what a shock…but lately more on that time after, and what new things can be built, dreamed up now, philosophized, look back in order to look … Continue reading Of Locke And The Tabula Rasa
Rambles On Rawls And The Veil Of Ignorance
At the heart of today’s GOP lie the alt-right neo-con white nationalists, the conservative extremist movement born out of Gingrich’s rib and dominating their particular worldview of a society born out of fear and hate that has no room for all the beauty and strength of a just society, a moral society, an inclusive society. The time where everyone was cordoned off into some pre-conceived … Continue reading Rambles On Rawls And The Veil Of Ignorance
This Week: A Train Wreck In Fantasyland, Again
Whether they’re an anchor, a journalist or otherwise professional in the news cycle it has become like some sort of dance of the 7 veils to watch them avoid saying what they are thinking, trying to find other words to express their thoughts in a more professional manner, in regards anything having to do with this man who now haunts the hallowed halls of the … Continue reading This Week: A Train Wreck In Fantasyland, Again
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