Archive For The “Wild Dog” Category
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go. – Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down. Barker, in many ways, is an obstinate individualist. Which explains somewhat his alleged profession: Philosopher/Recreationalist. My problem with the nuevo IRON JOHN…
If Justice Ginsburg was a dog, she’d be 612 years old. – Barker Ajax Ragnar Brotha Gonzo was born, I’ve been told, on July 27, 2018. My giant Caucasian Ovcharka, Hagrid Hippocrates Little Bear, passed away three weeks later. Hagrid and I had a bet going, to see who would outlive the other. I won….
Some of us write the novel, some of us live it. – Barker Ajax Chapter 1. THE STRANGER I saw the dust he raised before I saw anything else. We lived at the end of a long dirt road and we didn’t get much traffic up our way except during elk season, which wouldn’t start…
At no time in history have there been so many restless, questioning men. The traditional notions of manhood are under attack and men are being called upon to defend themselves, to change, to become something other than what they have been. – Sam Keen Character Notes “Choosing heroes is like making the collage of the…
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. – Emily Dickinson Are Dogs More Moral Than Us? by Jon Katz for Bedlam Farm Journal. June 29, 2020. According to dog author and psychologist Stanley Coren, paleontologists believe that 14,000 years ago, a Stone Age man sat next to a fire staring…
They never tell you about all the times Timmy saved Lassie’s ass. – Barker Ajax And the hero cried out, hold on, I’m comin’, I’m comin’. Don’t worry, it’s me. I’m on my way. I’m comin.’ His dog weighed more than he did. By five kilos or so. Funny, an American, you had to…
I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow’s blind, so I live one day at a time. – Willie Nelson I don’t understand how come you’re gone, man. I don’t understand why half the world is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is…
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. – David Viscott “You don’t know yourself any better than you know anyone else,” she says forcefully. “I don’t know what gives people this weird notion that they’re so well acquainted with themselves; you have to go through years of…
How much to be revealed about marijuana especially in this time and nation for the general public! For the actual experience of the smoked herb has been completely clouded by a fog of dirty language by the diminishing crowd of fakers who have not had the experience and yet insist on being centers of propaganda…
I told him once I envied him. He thought that was funny. So, I explained. He said so much in so few words and the art seemed to flow from him. From December 7, 1988. – JDW “My only compass for whether I’ve gone too far is the reaction I get from people in wheelchairs,…