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Somedays I wake up with a lump in my throat that refuses to go away- It comes with a huge warm sense of regret and non-specific nostalgia; paradise lost, when I never had the paradise in the first place… At my age now of 54, I do have a trove of memories to wax nostalgic…
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WORK’S FOR JERKS AND I’M A JERK
You can lead a horse to water, and watch him fall in and drown- Sometimes forced motivation is the only type that works, and we do our duties begrudgingly- Folks enthusiastically get up at the crack of dawn to go work on their hobby, then two days later, groan and grumble about getting up an…
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MY NAME IS MOODY
If we were always in a good mood it wouldn’t be good anymore- It’d just be a mood- We should always make an effort to acknowledge these elusive states of mind when they come upon us- They don’t leave as a ship slowly disappearing over the horizon, rather they’re like the transition from a moving…
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ENERGY MATTERS
“Energy is neither created nor destroyed”, said Einstein, (without a question mark at the end)- If that is indeed a law of the land, and I would tend to trust a law put forth by EINSTEIN, the energy that runs our consciousness came from somewhere else, and will go somewhere else when we shuffle off…
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WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH
Stress kills- I agree with that statement- Yet, I’m pretty sure you can think of at least one individual that would lean more toward “stress is life”- When a situation is going along swimmingly for everyone involved, they’ll be the unhappy one- They’ll be the one desperately looking for cracks in the finish, the flaws…
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JUST DESSERTS
You might not admit it, but you know when looking at a storm warning, you are hoping It comes straight at your town – If it’s a hurricane, a category 1 is a disappointment- You want a REAL hurricane- If it swerves at the last minute and goes to another state, you are most definitely…
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TRUE STORIES: SHOOTIN THE SHITE
There was an old plantation in South Carolina I would visit as a kid with my dad – Imagine bumping up and down dirt roads flanked with Spanish moss draped live oaks- There were countless lily pad-filled ponds with orange-eyed alligators- At night we’d fall asleep to the ceaseless din of bullfrogs and crickets- There…
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Life, Death, and a word of advice
Are legacies still a thing? If I wanted to be remembered for anything, it’d be that my house only had one bathroom- Seriously, when we’re gone, even if our art or whatever is making us “immortal”, we’re still gone- Neither Van Gough nor Nick Drake are contentedly chuckling somewhere at their posthumous fame and fortune-…
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WHAT’S NEXT?
The way in which technology advances in baby steps makes for so much less of a WOW factor when milestones are reached- Think about how much more exciting Call of Duty would have been when it was released if we hadn’t had to sit through all of its predecessors? What if instead of Pong, Space…
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DUMBING DOWN
Do other animals get intoxicated? Apparently they do not, not purposely- The closest possibility I found was a recurring example in the Caribbean in which a certain species of monkey would raid beachside bars and drink the frozen daiquiris, but they drank them for the high sugar content, not the high- Witnesses did report visible…
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TRUE STORIES: WATERY GRAVE ESCAPES
When I was thinking about phobias the other day, one stuck in my head; a common one, the fear of open water- That’s one of the understandable ones of course- I’ve always thought land animals should probably stay on land, just as fishes don’t try to flop around outside of water- Yet, I personally don’t…
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TRUE STORIES: CINCINNATTI CHEESEBALL
We all make stupid “quick decisions”, and some are more stupid than others- I would argue, the younger you are, the greater the severity of stupid, and then as we approach our FINAL decisions, they go a bit dumb again- It was the early 90s and I had just joined a touring punk/funk band- They…
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They’re afraid of what?
I can understand a fear of heights, or open water, or even elephants- What about those phobias that make no sense? Trypophobia is a great example; a fear of repetitive patterns of holes- A sufferer of trypophobia looks at an empty beehive- Their heart rate goes up and their mouth goes dry- Are our brains…
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True Stories: Exhibit A- My Pet Monster
It was the ’80s and I was a Junior in high school. Although familiar with the wonders of alcohol, albiet in the form of wine coolers and peppermint schnapps, I had recently been introduced to Mary Jane, and was right in the middle of my honeymoon phase- I was riding shotgun, (as always; I had…
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Nothing but the HITS
There is evidence of written music from as far back as 3,400 years ago. With the 2nd oldest example, they were actually able to reconstruct what it would have sounded like when played on everyone’s favorite instrument, the lyre. Check out the Hurrian Hymn; it’s darkly melodious, and you imagine it going over well at…
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Seasonally Disorderly Affected
We often link each season to certain moods: Fall’s pleasant melancholy, Winter’s slow blues, Spring’s hopeful awakening, and Summer’s carefree chaos. You might see the seasons a bit differently, but it’s likely not too far off, right? When did you first start feeling emotionally swayed by the seasons? I recall getting sentimental in Fall, even…
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Eat Yer breakfast!!
“You gotta have your breakfast! It’s the most important!”, my grandmother would say, waggling her finger at me with one hand while hustling me out of bed with the other- Decades later, on the rare mornings I eat more than a banana, I congratulate myself on a job well done- Then, of course, by midday…
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Vibes
We all talk about places with vibes, and with good reason, because you can’t deny a vibe- We have the energy of Venice, New Orleans, or Prague, or the lesser traveled but equally vibing places like Savannah, GA, Galveston, TX, and Boone, NC- Sometimes it leans negative, sometimes positive, sometimes just weird, but we can…
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Final evolution observation
Okay, one more bit about evolution and then I swear I’ll shut up about it- Take sharks for example- From our understanding of the past, sharks have been around a whole lot longer than we have, so why haven’t they developed intellect like we have? If they did, they would’ve been able to accomplish their…
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Time is a trip
I like the understanding that Einstein and others have- Time is not absolute and just a man-made concept to compartmentalize things- Yet, when you watch the seconds tick by on a stopwatch, they seem steady…. Seconds don’t suddenly jump ahead or reverse- Today is today, yesterday is never anything but yesterday, and tomorrow stays tomorrow,…
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Hey Darwin! Wha happened?
Can we all agree that evolution is real, right? Species evolve to adapt to their surroundings and to better their chances of surviving- So we are freakishly advanced and out of step with the rest of the animal kingdom… or is the animal kingdom more cognitively advanced than we think it is? I would think…
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It’s ok, we’re just another animal
Humanity is going to do what humanity is going to do. For 7,000 ish years of “civilized” society, we have been ravaging one another and judging our neighbors by their skin color, last name, gender, etc- Whatever juvenile alien’s science experiment we were, that kid didn’t get anything above a D Plus- It’s like they…
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