Saturday, December 18, 2021

THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it

 Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it.


THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS 
Dad Gone Wild 
Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it



THE SINS OF MY PAST REVISITED
“I think about it like this,” Bart said. “We are confined to the present, but this moment we’re living now has, for all of history, been the future. And now, forever more, it will be past. Everything we do sets off unforeseeable, irreversible chain reactions. We are acting within the constraints of an impossibly complex system.” He paused and stared around again. “That system is the past,” he sai

DEC 13

SERVING UP DISTRACTIONS
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship, you don’t have to waste your time voting” ― Bukowski C. Back in the halcyon days when I began writing this blog, I oft fretted about whether or not I could find enough fodder to write about weekly. Little should I have worried, because, over the better part of the

DEC 11

A HAIRCUT WITH SLOTSKY
“Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage.” ― Jane Harper, The Lost Man The sound of the bell drew my eyes to the barbershop door. A smile quickly creased my face as I recognized my good friend Slotsky entering the shop. “Morning friend”, he sa

DEC 08

LIFE LONG DUPE OR KNOWING CO-CONSPIRATOR
“Mystic ways may not all travel but life’s riddles we can unravel.” ― James Tunney, The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution For those growing up in NE Pennsylvania in the early Eighties, it was considered a rite of passage to run into NYC and get a fake ID as they approached the legal drinking age. ID’s weren’t hard to procure, as they were readily available i

DEC 04

THE WRONG INVESTMENTS
“ Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator” ― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland A couple nights ago I drove my daughter home from Ballet. It was a dark night, one of those Fall/Winter evenings where it feels like it is approaching midnight when in reality it’s only 7:15.

 Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it.