Archive For The “Here I Am” Category
If you are looking at the midterm results and concluding that the rest of America is clamoring to be more like Florida, I think you are huffing paint. – Tim Miller “Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die,” the state’s autocratic leader crowed. Did you ever hear anything so damn horrifying and at the same…
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have. … They are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting…
Two deaths from the storm, Florida officials said, were men in their 70s who shot themselves after seeing the destruction to their property. Steve Mitchell moved around in the dark. The 80-year-old sipped vodka from a paper cup inside apartment 206 at the Venetian Bayview condominiums on Friday night, only the light of a phone…
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have? — Michael Leunig When the Crazy Prospector…
Some of the things I say are true, some are not, but it all happened. – Richard Pryor Supposed to be in Vegas for an important large family affair but no way to get there. We do not plane, not yet anyway. But the dogs already had reservations at Four Paws, so… we drove to…
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until… – Walter de la Mare Have long swung back and forth between claiming I am…
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the Weather. – Bill Hicks My…
“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening” – DJT. 24/7/18 Greetings from MAGA country. Greasily controlled by a white male Republican sheriff. Because really that’s all that’s important – our personal safety. The Sheriff has his own helicopter and his own speedboat and his own tank and he’s paid about as…
I don’t seem to get anywhere, but I’ve been a lot of places. Shallow? I’m not being fair to myself. Honestly do believe the end is near. And there’s been so so much to bear in the last few years I’m numb. This earthquake is just the latest. Reagan and terrorists, cocaine, street gangs, baby…
As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point. – Jean Ferris I don’t have dreams. Sleep hard, nine hours a night. Every night. Don’t even get up to pee. The dog climbs into bed with me. And I put my arm around him And we snuggle. There’s a woman in…