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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Throw it All Away in General
Take the story you’ve been sold The lies that justify the pain The guilt that weighs upon your soul And throw ‘em all away I glanced at my phone - the Android Maxx. The time was 1:11 and the te...
My Name... in General
My name is not my own, It is borrowed from my ancestors, I must return it unstained. My honor is not my own, It is on loan from my descendants, I must give it to them unbroken. Our blood is not o...
Just Waiting for TWD to Come On in General
I am watching the lead-up to the Oscars. Basically wasting time until TWD comes on. I am shaking my head. The ridiculous way a bunch of marginally entertaining movies are pumped up until I almos...
Sweet Child o' Mine in General
Erin Everly at 1+25 in this video I why I obsessively watched this video back in the pre-YouTube days when we actually had to wait for a video to come on MTV or VH1. Such a pretty baby. The hai...
Dave Barry's Take on FSoG in General
So I read Fifty Shades of Grey. This is the book written by female British author “E. L. James” that became a huge bestseller, devoured by pretty much every woman on Earth except my wife (or so s...
The storm turned out to be nothing for us here in this part of coastal Maine. It scooted right out to sea before getting close. So instead of 2 feet of snow we got maybe 2 inches. Even the th...
California Sun in General
I could use a little of that California sun right about now. The sky has been leaden and foreboding since just after noon. The blizzard hasn’t started here yet, but it is marching this way. T...
Feeling Satisfied in General
My appreciation of Sib Hashian as a drummer is growing as I age. This randomed up on Evel today and I found myself listening to the drums more than anything. He doesn’t double down at first li...
F-14 Tomcat vs MiG-23 Dogfight in General
Most of the radio comms from the tomcats was my last Admiral - Admiral M - a Lieutenant at the time. I have a great amount of respect for him because as PEO-T (Program Executive Office - Tacair...
Fifty Shades of Grey in General
I don’t get it. Women are all “Men don’t respect us, don’t appreciate our power or our intellect blah blah blah sexism blah blah!” Then they immediately get hot about a story about an overtly a...
” All that’s left to write I love you more than light and dark And distant stars If all the streams dried up I’d just drink you up” - Vertical Horizon, “Here” I’ll never hear that line of that s...
And Winter Drones On! in General
Just watched the last episode of Criminal Minds They are going to bring Dylan Einstein back. I don’t see how they can’t. Finished med school at 19? Flirts with everybody. She is an irresisti...
My DVR is filling up with stuff I am not interested in watching. I am chatting on facebook and on my droid. Thinking about ordering a pizza I really don’t need. Wondering when I am going to ...
The World I Know in General
So I walk up on high And I step to the edge To see my world below. And I laugh at myself While the tears roll down. ‘Cause it’s the world I know. It’s the world I know. -Collective Soul, “The W...
No Se Si Es Amor in General
Because I know the English version of the song I can actually follow this one in Spanish I always hear “Yo no lo se” as “I don’t know.” I don’t know the nuance. Three port calls in Spain and th...
If You Could Read My Mind in General
“If I could read your mind, love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstores sell When you reach the part where the heartaches come The hero would be...
I am insulted as an American to have this coward as my president.
Some Day One Day in General
After a day of snow it seems too bright out there. New snow reflects light. I was a kid when I first heard the term “snow blind.” On days like this it is easy to believe you could burn out yo...
Killer Queen in General
She keeps Moët et Chandon In her pretty cabinet ‘Let them eat cake,’ she says Just like Marie Antoinette A built-in remedy For Kruschev and Kennedy At anytime an invitation You can’t decline -Q...
Juno bears down. On TV I can see how it is progressing in NYC and Boston. The sky was clear and sunny for most of the day, and only in the last couple of hours started taking on that strange g...
Sick Cycle Carousel in General
I never thought I’d end up here I never thought I’d be standing where I am I guess I kind of thought it would be easier than this I guess I was wrong Coming back from the store Evel randomed up...
Shimmer in Background Noise
Shimmer - 8/28/2008 It comes back to me, over and over again. Being at angels two-seven ten miles off the Dalmatian coast as we went about our work. The impact. The loss of control. The inci...
Dare You to Move in General
I watched the Switchfoot movie “Fading West.” It is actually more a documentary of a tour and a surfing trip than a movie. They are a very inspirational. And all the surfing footage with the ...
Crazy Life in General
Just off the phone with Comcast. I kept putting it off and putting it off until today. I left the condo for 30 minutes and came home to my answering machine completely full of threats and deman...
Sister Golden Hair in General
Funny how I always thought of America as a three man band, but it looks like there are ten people on stage. When this pops up on the iPod l always sing the first stanza, then switch to the backg...
