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If the rest of the day is to go any betterAnd.It is true what âtheyâ say about curiosity, the cat and death.I am dead.Or in the throes of being killed.Well. So. I might as well enjoy it, huh?Yes.No.Maybe.The last-meal-kinda-enjoyment before death befalls me and I cannot remember my right from my left, my head from my thoughts, reality from influential saturation piped in through my idolatracized musical buds.My ear buds.I can play it as loud or as soft as I want.Nobody cares.I am already dead.I might as well enjoy the accoutrements and the c...
Today:The Destination is the Journey.The untouchable taste of freedomâthe cost can be more than a lifetime.Freedom is not free.He allows us the freedom to be, You and Me.What we choose to do each day is always up to us. In good times and in bad. In sickness and in health.As long as we all shall live.Thatâs the rub.To be or not to be, is that the question.Gosh. No.We are the property of no one. We own only our decisions when fear and triangulation do not point us in the right direction, too inward.Mendicant or property in common, including la...
Sound fun?Prerequisite: Quick reaction timeđThe crack of the bat.The crack of the backđ€Goal: It is an elimination gameđ€Itâs all fun and games until somebody gets hurts.Letâs not so much call it stealing a chairs.Per Francis, letâs keep âthingsâ in a positive perspective!Quick reaction time can or may be subjective.(Depending upon provider notes and who and whom they âlikeâ)To some, the word eliminate. A word of profoundness that does not sound fun.Ironically. We learn this in childhood and in different, insidiously, throughout our life.We ma...
Innocence and Innocent.Is?Youth wasted on the young?âI wasnât even there.âIs no excuse.Youth may be wasted on the young.It is even worse when wasted.Period.And Innocence.Forget about it?No.In exists.Nowadays.We simply must look ever harder for it.Under here.Under there.Over here.Over there.Or else, it will harshly smack us upside the head. Along with the ringing in ears going on forever.Forever. Even.Ouch.AndMore ouch.In some cultures, innocent until proven guilty is a thing. Well used to be a thing anyway.Best to know beforehand. Who is wri...
Sounds like a good thing?Yeah?Love without limits.No boundaries.To speak of.Just keep âshowing upâ.Well.My goal is not burst your bubble.Seriously.Life is complicated.1000 questions.A million actually.Perhaps.The million dollar one-No sillyâThe million dollar question.Not THAT million dollars.Have you a sickness with all things dollar-lyâŠ..(Sometimes, making up a word is funđ€Ł.)I digress.O.K. now for the most important question.Relates not necessarily denominationally.But.Make no mistake.One cannot fake a belief.This is about the best news I ...
Science. Schmience.Celesital. Cellestual.Potatoe. Potato.Tomatoe. Tomato.Ugh.Hey. Creep.Will you be one of the many, or none of the few?Some of them. None of them.Who venture out to âtake a peak?âAt the celestial happening to occur next week.Some time.On the 8th of this month.The total eclipse of the sun.Weirdo.When? Not sure.But. Science said it is to âhappen.âAccountability is no where to be âfoundâ on your radar.But is constantly on someoneâs. Radar.My radar. Is quite sensitive. How is yours?If this upcoming event is ââall thatâ, for you....
Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten.Please and thank are the magic words.Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten.If I didnât.It is worth repeating.Repetition.The sincerest form of flatteryđ.A picture is worth a thousand words, a thousand dollars.But first:âALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTENâ(c)By Robert FulghumAll I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at S...
Happy Easter to the You that is today.And.The You that you hope to be tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day.And.So on and so on.The good news.Every day.There are âwin winâ choices to make.Everyday.One may say that punishment isnât supposed to feel good.Is supposed to âteach us something.âPersonally. This is a confusing concept. One that takes too much draining energy out of the body. And especially the soul. Ours souls are our personalities and our thoughts all rolled into one.One.One Love.One Life.One.When and how w...
Imitation.It has been opined.Is the sincerest form of flattery.Order.Order.Order.âYou canât touch this.ââYou canât touch that.âHugs hurt.Short sentences.Long sentences.Run-on sentences.The gift of one someone making sense of it all.One time.One moment.Makes all the difference in the world.In a world where differences are not supposed to âmatter.âThe pile on.Reciprocity nonexistent.Non existent.I canât take it anymore.Please understand me.Or.At least try.Whilst you are so busy being,Busy.Someone out there noticed.In an instant.Life changed.No...
It is not the the guiding light.,It does not have to be the guiding light.To destruction. Self-destruction or any other types.Assignment for today: Do not overthink.Question: In your mind, your mindâs eyes, your eyeâs eyes, which of the following is the most important to you?No fair looking at your neighborâs paper.Or.Your neighborâs anything, anyone.Throughout eras, platonic love was slowly categorized into seven different classical definitions.Well. At least that says something about the classicsâbefore imitation and repetition rendered us...
Too much of a good thing.Is usually, never, a good thing.âTheyâ tell us:Everything in moderation.Just a dab will do ya.Donât over doâŠâŠLest we make a fool of ourselves in the era ofBeing noticed come hell or high water.In the good old days, âtheyâ were the ones we listened to. Thought we were required to listen to. Until we werenât.For example.âTheyâ used to say we âshouldâ drink eight, eight ounce glasses of water a day.O.k. Math. Easy math even tells us that is 8x8=_____.Thatâs quite a bit of H2OâTheyâ say, it is for our health.Those, âthey...
We hang out, with our faces on the wall.Life can be kinda like a bad dream.Sometimes.Oftentimes,We, and our life stories come alive, at night, in the dark.The mugs of all mugs.The mug shots of all mug shots.Hanging on the wall.It was ourselves, all along.It is worth noting, or at least knowing, that nothing in life is free.We may think, âđ€Everything will be better when I__________________(fill in the blank)or when I _______________________(fill in the blank)or if I __________________________(fill in the blank)or when I acquire_______________...
Okeedokee.No problemo.Will do.Real good.Bye now.đ«ĄBefore.I knew.What I know now.I found it too difficult to choose.Sides.In the grand scheme of all things active, I did not think it prudent, possible or particularly particular to be particular.I am a rather,âAll inâ kind a kid.Kinda person.Inclusive.Half saluting?âNot my thing.Life is seldom so-in-a-box-with-a-bow kind-ofâthingâ.to half-have someoneâs back isHaving someoneâs back half-a**ed.Now.Next lesson: The humility of human anatomy and physiology.The brain.Last I knew, we all had one-Jok...
Mi no comprehendeâ.Math people please take a front seat.Pi R Squared people take the next row.Those geometrically opposed, the next row.Those integer-ed, the next.And so on and so on.RV people, move to the back of the bus, I mean room, I mean bus.What exactly DO you mean?âŠ.When you meanânot mean, as the mean of the meanđłas a verb it is the action of the noun of the word people use to describe,Anger.(lk)At time, astute individuals understand, comprehendeâ the actual meaning of the emotive emoticon of emojis describing the desperate attempt to...
You can run, but you cannot hide.The disguises we most often use to run away are the reflections of ourselves in anotherâs eyes.Sometimes.Othertimes.It could be just getting away with the slow death murder of another individual.To be fair.It may not be entirely intention.On our part.Entirely intentional.What keeps âitâ going?The horror, the endless nights of worry.The lack of protectionâŠâŠ..What keeps it going?From past experience or experiences, the blatant lack of accountability or accountabilities, the gross disregard, the will to make a b...
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