Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it.
THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it
THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS
Dad Gone Wild
Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it
PLEASE APPLY MORE CARE
by TC Weber / 19h
“Oh, come off your perch!” said the other man, who wore glasses. “Your premises won’t come out in the wash. You wind-jammers who apply bandy-legged theories to concrete categorical syllogisms send logical conclusions skallybootin’ into the infinitesimal ragbag. You can’t pull my leg with an old sophism with whiskers on it.” ― O. Henry, The Complete Works of O. Henry My relationship with my childr
HOW ABOUT A LITTLE CLARITY?
by TC Weber / 2d
“Hey, if it’s up to you about TNReady, vote “no”, because this year there are no snacks, longer recesses, or parades. Those are the only reasons I was in before. None of those happening, and I’m out” – Peter Weber, 10, student commenting on debate over TCAP Remember those halcyon days of yore, when we were extending grace to each other, reminding ourselves daily that this was all new, we were in
SHOW ME THE MONEY
by TC Weber / 4d
“If I had a message to my contemporaries it is surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success . . . If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.” ― Thomas Merton, Love, and Living Back in the early ’90s, in the m
CHANGING OUR PERSPECTIVE
by TC Weber / 7d
“It is a good lesson – though it may often be a hard one – for a man… to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter My daughter has been taking ballet at Nashville Ballet for about 5 years now. It’s been a fantasti
TIME FOR THE NEXT PHASE
by TC Weber / 11d
“For convenience, history is often viewed as a conflict between the instinct for order and the impulse toward chaos. Both are necessary: both are manifestations of the need to survive. Without order, nothing exists: without chaos, nothing grows. And yet the struggle between them sheds more blood than any other war.” ― Stephen R. Donaldson, The Gap Into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge Today I did some
WHAT YOU SEE, AIN’T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET
by TC Weber / 14d
“Sometimes I aint so sho who’s got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.” ― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Recently I’ve spent a lot m