An elementary school band concert is often a chance for parents to understand just how much their parents suffered for them. It’s a shame that we discover this so much later, but that’s the way life is; sometimes you get paid ahead, sometimes you get paid back.
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All about the standing-upright chimps that really love to talk about themselves.
King O’er the Water
My daughter recently learned “The Skye Boat Song” in school. For those of you who don’t know it, the song recounts the flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie, legitimate heir to the throne of Scotland and England, away from his lands and into exile. The King Over the Water. It’s a beautiful, longing song of melancholy and hope mixed together.
Sad that it’s all a load of crap.
Everything Counts
I had the pleasure of attending a banquet for the West Seventh Community Center honoring a man who is part of the glue that holds our community together, Father John Clay.
Numbers Game
The real truth about our world is all around us. In these industrial-age times there are people that measure, tabulate, and report all kinds of different things. There are two problems with this.
The first problem is that you have to ask how people made their calculations. If they have an axe to grind, you can be sure that they like the way that reinforces the opinions they already had. Orwell told us most of what we need to know here.
Cold Front
As soon as I walked outside, I felt it. The silky warm haze of summer that was wrapped around us unexpectedly fell to reveal a sharp and biting cold. The air was alive and eager for some kind of action. It is spring, once again, in the middle of a large continent. Anything can happen.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 