How do I distinguish the difference between fact and fiction? Sometimes it’s hard to say if a leaf is a leaf or an insect.
Fame brings you praise and derision.
Self-serving oneself is an industry all its own [warning: embedded link is NSFW].
Sigh…if only the WordPress app on my iPad 2 would quit crashing!
A masked ball at Pier One…
…for my peeps peers eating pears, of course!
Tonight, seasonably cool, I stand on a hill at sunset to catch a view of Draconid meteors.
Keep looking up!
You are 1% you and 99% something else, so to speak, by genetic classification system — take a look!
Today, I held in my hand all of my life’s savings in one check (well, most of it, anyway) — millions and millions (of pennies, at least).
I walked into an office building and handed the check to a woman I’ve seen maybe five times in my life for a total of 10 or 15 minutes.
She kindly made a photocopy of the check and wrote my phone number down.
I turned and walked out of the office building.
What that an act of artful thinking?
Guess it’s time to start thinking ahead now that I’m fully into the second year of the second 50 years of my life, virtually penniless.
My second childhood is in full bloom.
Waaaah! Smack me, Abi, I’m being a bad boy! 😉
Time to memorise some dance moves — my inexperienced description of them below —
Yesterday, my wife and I passed a Catholic school/church where people here in north Alabama were standing on a sidewalk holding up handmade signs protesting abortion — the majority of the people in the crowd looked Hispanic and were conservatively-dressed.
In the national news lately, there has been an analysis of political wrangling over the recent “shutdown” of the U.S. government.
And in one news outlet, the comparison was made to show that the breakdown of support for the shutdown is partially aligned with the states that seceded during the U.S. Civil War.
I wonder if it’s more of an urban vs. rural thought set/mentality — the city slicker versus the independent cowboy, an extension of the Wild West/eminent domain/manifest destiny zeitgeist.
In other words, pick your poison pen letter and write for a target audience.
From my perspective, the conservatives in north Alabama are not all white or associated with support for keeping the blacks/browns/underemployed/uninsured economically suppressed.
It seems to be a longer-term objective to change the beliefs of the latest generation of new Americans toward a United States that is more competitive globally.
Whether that strategy works will play out over the next decade.
Time to click my stopwatch and see.
treetrunkdings 