Everyone is focused on the children The innocents The helpless The ones who don’t understand, can’t. Who can’t imagine why they are living In hell. The ones who are just kids who want to play outside. That is the right priority. But I wonder about the process of selling your soul So you … Continue reading What Does It Take To Sell Your Soul
Years back, angry note Re: taking handicap space Today we need it. ~Haiku by Michael When our granddaughter Madison was born (in San Diego, now just over 14 years ago, tempus fugit) we hurriedly parked our car in a handicapped space at the hospital. I don’t … Continue reading I Need That Space!
"I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience." Sara Blakely Finding Your Purpose There has been a language shift over the past twenty years and that always means a cultural shift. Three words are common in everyday life and well as in entertainment. The … Continue reading Finding Your Purpose
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Frederick Douglass Perfect Parenting I have strong views on having the job of parent. I think all parents should teach their kid to read and write and know colors and north, south, east and west. Singing the ABCs to the Twinkle Twinkle tune … Continue reading Profound Parenting
"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious." Helen Keller Fingers on Keyboard Writing Oh Lightly How brave those writers must be! Ever since that first caveman put his hand in the ashes of a fire and left his handprint on the wall to say, … Continue reading Fingers on Keyboard
"Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit." Gwen Verdon Fosse/Verdon on FX I would guess that you are watching it too. Michelle Williams is playing Gwen … Continue reading Fosse/Verdon on FX
"If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself." Anne Frank Status Report: The Profound Bartender Here at the Profound Bartender, we don't have a mission statement. There is a single criteria, my brother said, "I want to write". So, here it is. This is … Continue reading Status Report: The Profound Bartender
"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." Aristotle Breaking Expectations This is the third and final piece in a series on expectations. Read the others if you want to! Expectations are put on us in all kinds of ways. Parents, friends, family, country, society … Continue reading Breaking Expectations
"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me." Tim Burton Dumbo: My Review I've always admired Ian Fleming. Here is an author with an aesthetic who never let himself to be trapped in his aesthetic. In the midst of writing all of those great spy novels, he wrote a charming story called Chitty … Continue reading Dumbo: My Review
There is something creative about lying in bed. Something scrumptious. Something drug-free-but-drug-ish. Something sinful. I am not one to loll about in bed all day, and when I “hit the hay” I’m pretty much out until the next morning. I don’t take naps. When my alarm goes off in the morning I head out to … Continue reading Lying In Bed
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