Narratives

The Quivering Forest

The fella certainly was devoted. But no where near ready.

No, no, no....

Narratives

Time

Time will race you. And time...time will win.

Frameworks

Should you find it necessary to understand someone by putting them into the framework of your own experience...

Don't.

It's Too Bad...

Intelligence did not evolve to compete against anorexia addiction.

Where It's At...

Consistency (not instability), Kindness (not ego-centrism), and Empathy (not apathy) are the merit badges of the Awesome Possum.

Show and Tell....

To tell someone who you are is to boast about who you are. And to boast about who you are is usually a sign that a contradiction is about to slap your audience in the face.

The Detriment of Fear--Redux

Fear is designed to motivate, not navigate.

The Detriment of Fear

Fear is neither skilled nor qualified to instruct or counsel. Its sole purpose (its only purpose) is to simply motivate--nothing more.

Remember this.

Fancy Pants, Kittens, Sunshine, and Robots.

I have never had a woman look so intently at me, and yet been so oblivious to the man standing in front of her.

Again...

Admittedly, I had seen the chimp. I had. With a smile on his face and a lump of brown goo dripping from his hand.

What I did not see, not two feet above me, was the swirling, whirling motion of the room's only fan....

The ghost

The ghost of my first love is walking away...

Life

Sobriety is the mechanism that fools--an otherwise intelligent--man into believing he is living a valuable life.