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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Survey from Online Flirt in General
✍ Tattoos - Nope 😷 Surgeries - Nope (do Circumcision, Tonsillectomy and Vasectomy count?) 🏥Broken Bones- Oh Yes 🔫 Shot a gun - Yes 😕 Quit a job - Yes (A story unto itself!) ✈️ Flown on a plane - ...
The Eternal Watch in General
Bon Voyage to those who’ve set sail We bid them farewell as we man the rail. Let us be Joyous and let us not weep For those who have now crossed over the deep. When a Sailor’s last roll call is m...
Learn to be Still in General
Year of the Cat II in General
She doesn’t give you time for questions As she locks up your arm in hers And you follow till your sense of which direction Completely disappears By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls The...
Year of the Cat in General
The Year of the Cat She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running Like a watercolor in the rain Don’t bother asking for explanations She’ll just tell you that she came In the year of the cat ...
Here Without You in General
Here Without You My youngest sibling, my sister Deb just invited me out to the bowling alley where they are in the bar doing Karaoke. The last time I did Karaoke was on cruise in ‘99 when I spe...
Same Auld Lang Syne in General
“Reliving in our eloquence another Auld Lang Syne.” I never really caught that line before. It’s not like it hasn’t been 36 years since I first heard that song, driving to the Auburn mall with ...
Anything But Mine in General
Truth be told this song reminds me of Lana. Just one night. Desperately holding on. I occasionally wonder if it possible to fall in love while you are intensely miserable. I met Lana on the...
Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) in General
I had turned 22 a couple of months before I married for the first time. I thought I was pretty worldly, growing up in a military family and living all over the world. Little did I know. But ...
Praying for Time in General
Praying For Time Apologies to all. This is going to get edited about six hundred more times as memories flood back in. I was in flight school in ‘90. You couldn’t turn on your radio in the s...
White Queen in General
The White Queen walks and the night grows pale… A beautiful blonde in lace will get my attention every time! When I woke up this morning I needed to piss like a race horse. I don’t generally s...
I Believe in Father Christmas in General
I Believe in Father Christmas Strange to think that the snow we got in the last 12 hours would have completely shut down vast swaths of the south. It started at midnight, and kept up all night. ...
Yesterday afternoon I went over to Shaw’s. Intention being to return a RC drone I had purchased for my grandson. Shaw’s is a grocery store, but they usually have cool, inexpensive items that ar...
Lucky Man One two punch today. John Glenn and Greg Lake. John Glen made it to 95. That, in anyone’s book is a pretty awesome run. Especially considering his line of work. He was one of my ...
Honor the Threat in General
Honor the Threat I was talking with dad this afternoon and he regaled me with a story where he, as a flight engineer on C-123s was allowed to ride in the navigator seat in a B-52 flight from Kinc...
Winter Warlock in General
Well, looks like the Winter Warlock has finished sharpening his spurs. I got about an inch of snow. Up in ‘Salems Lot they got about three inches. I did the predictive thing of whether I needed ...
Tater's Peeled in General
But garlic not roasted. I am going to have to get up by 7am to pull this together, because unlike my younger years I am a little slow on the waking up. I am supposed to pick up the bean at noon....
11.22.16 Fifty three years ago an American president was assassinated. We still don’t know all the details, but that uncertainty fuels an entire conspiracy theorist industry. Twenty nine years a...
Blame He said it better than I could. And I have been trying for two days. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> Disliking Obama for b...
Fire and Rain in General
More rain than fire here today, although last night I went out for a walk and could smell that tell-tale sign that Autumn is fully upon us. The smell of cedar smoke in the air. It rained almost...
Fire and Rain in General
More rain than fire here today, although last night I went out for a walk and could smell that tell-tale sign that Autumn was fully upon us. The smell of cedar smoke in the air. It rained almos...
And Now, Fall. in General
I left the bedroom window open last night. I needed to get up this morning because I had a dentist appointment. It must have looked comical as I huddled under the covers and reached out to hit t...
When you’re asleep they may show you Aerial views of the ground, Freudian slumber empty of sound. “A Trick of the Tail” was the last time Genesis actually had a guitarist. After Steve Hackett l...
Wicked Game in General
I have a placard, okay a folded 5x8 index card, in my kitchen. It started as a way to remind myself when I had appointments. Because when you don’t really have a particular place to go on a da...
Hello Darkness My Old friend in General
I am having my twice a month regularly scheduled bout of insomnia. As long as it stays in its box we are copacetic. When I get a job it might turn into a bit of a hassle. Hey, I’ve got nothin...
