Duke
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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Well, I called out for the first time. Sometime last week I cut my thumb with my super-dooper safety company approved boxcutter. My right hand is my dominant hand. You learn rapidly how often yo...
Old Entry. Breaks my heart I prayed tonight. Let’s be clear, I am an agnostic. To me that means that I believe in God, I just don’t know his intentions. True atheists are those bookish people w...
Happy Birthday, Summer Girl in General
I know, a bit early. You have been on my mind, for, something like 11 years. You were my last love. The handful of dates I have been on in the last decade always end the same way: “She’s nice,...
Angels of the Silences / This Vampire Life in General
Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my Hand… I’m on my “weekend.” My days off are Tuesday-Wednesday, but because I get off Tuesday at 0700 and start again on Thursday at 2200 I get co...
Angels of the Silences / This Vampire Life in General
Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my Hand… I’m on my “weekend.” My days off are Tuesday-Wednesday, but because I get off Tuesday at 0700 and start again on Thursday at 2200 I get co...
Danger Zone in General
Tomorrow I transition from being a steely eyed dealer of death to a steely eyed stocker of shelves. Fuck it, it’s 42k a year on top of my Navy retirement. And I’ve certainly had more difficult ...
Alert 15 / Vampires I had my phone interview with the manager at Wally World, she had already offered me the job. Working the overnight is something that civilians really don’t like. She asked,...
Wave Bye Bye in General
”This is the last time I’ll ever Say I love you This is the last night I fall among these graves The and last time that I’ll Cry and walk beneath a dark Lonely sky and wave bye Bye, bye bye…” Ti...
Inspirit / Gate Three Drop Four in General
Inspirit / Gate Three Drop Four Lola is playing her Grand Piano on a beach on a beach on the island of Brač, Croatia. I am familiar with this island. Although from altitude it wsn’t nearly this...
April, Come She Will in General
Sad song, but accurately expresses the lifespan of my loves. Sometimes years, sometimes months. Well endgame is coming on regarding this condo. I can’t get a solid read on what bank guy Garret...
Turning Your Lights On by CDR Jack “Farva” Curtis, USN(Ret) On the signal from a 20‐something Sailor, you advance the throttles forward and feel the machine come to life. You don’t hear much beca...
Heaven bend to take my hand And lead me through the fire Be the long awaited answer To a long and painful fight Truth be told I’ve tried my best But somewhere along the way I got caught up in all...
Anyone who has lived anywhere in the north knows what a Blizzard is – and no it doesn’t come from Dairy Queen. Starting tomorrow at 4am the snow will start, then the wind will start. By Noon the...
Falling asleep last night, I got this earbug. Music is a time machine. I was back in the small Condo off Tropicana a mile from Boulder Highway. The first time I heard this song was driving fro...
Hood of my car Radio’s just loud enough So I can hear “Levon” Where you are is anybody’s guess for now Just a song I grew up on Constellations seem so out of line Wish that we could make it this ...
Our story’s old, older than the wind It’s been decided for years How can we pretend That we all know just how it’s gonna end Rescue me in the middle of the ocean Crashing down, it’s always hard ...
Louder Than Ever in General
You were there in the front seat, Windows down we were burning, It was just like a movie scene, Those dashboard lights, And your pale blue eyes cutting through me… -Daughtry, “Louder Than Ever” ...
Confluence in General
Today is two years since Sandy committed suicide. I still haven’t reconciled that, between who I knew as, and who she was. I still can’t comprehend how deep into a dark hole you would have to g...
Up the Wolves in General
Our mother has been absent Ever since we founded Rome But there’s gonna be a party when the wolf comes home.. Up to ‘Salem’s Lot to meet the newest member of the family. Only a few weeks old, a...
Oubliette There is a scene in the movie “Labrinth” where Hoggle explains to Sarah what a Oubliette was: “Yes. It’s a place you put people… to forget about ‘em!” Apparently in my home I have a mul...
More Than a Feeling in General
More Than a Feeling It’s more than a feeling When I hear that old song they used to play And I begin dreaming ‘Til I see Marianne walk away I see my Marianne walking away… I got up this morning,...
On-Ree Hurricane/Tropical Storm/Tropical Depression Henri was a great fat nothingburger in Maine, despite the shrieking of the media “The! First! Hurricane! To! Make! Landfall! In New England! In...
Feels Like Tonight in Background Noise
Feels Like Tonight My birth certificate tells me I am 59 at 530 tomorrow morning. I don’t have a lot of complaints. Most of the weird twingy pains from last Summer’s heart surgery have subside...
Too Late the Hero in General
So here I am, rocketing through the Coronoverse in my spiffy cool condo-ship. Other than an unpleasant week getting my chest cracked open last summer I pretty much live in my condo-ship. I do t...
Mazzy Star, always the masters of melancholy. Well. I suppose we could call this the bleak mid-winter, but that is a Christmas song, and I personally think of “The Bleak Mid Winter” as being Feb...
