There are few commitments as reliable as a Mother’s love.
All in Ideas
He hit Dicky hard enough to stagger him backward with blood dripping from his chin. Dan said nothing. Dicky and Gerald never bothered Dan again.
“Think of your chicks”, Churr’s mother implored, “They’ll be neither Chickadee nor Sparrow, they’ll be outcasts”.
“We know more about the surface
of the moon than we do about
the bottom of the sea”.
Isn’t idyllic a pleasant word?
It sounds as calm and as pleasant
as the world it describes.
Fildles, fifes, and all other instruments, produce distictive overtones that allow us to identify them as distictive personalities.
Telling an untruth is not the same as lying. People accused of lying are often telling what they think is true.
It’s not a lie unless they know what they’re saying isn’t true.
There are no membership rolls, but the members know each other as soon as they meet.
There are fishermen who focus on catching fish. Such men care more about catchin’ than fishin’. There are other fishermen who don’t much care about the catching. They care about time in the open air, time free from duty, time to reflect.
Those are the fishin’ interests that interest me.
I have long been fascinated by shallow pools of clear water. I’m drawn to them by charm I do not understand. They’re inviting in some mystical, perhaps primordial way. Memories seem to be connected to such pools, though I have no such conscious memories.
There are theories that memories can be carried by genes. Am I remembering some time before time. If so, then why doesn’t everyone.
“That’s a very tiny piece of paper”. “Yeah, but I’ll do the job”. “Alright, Jimmy, You never set me wrong, yet”.
Jeff places the tiny bit of paper on his tongue and swallows. Jimmy hands him a pill. “Take this with the acid”. “What’s this”? “Dramamine, it’s for travel sickness, funny, huh? Dramamine works for LSD trips the same as it works for train & planes”.
How do you know what you know is true. You don’t. You can’t. No one can. The reality is that we can never know that anything is absolutely, no doubt about it, 100% true. That does not stop us from believing something is absolutely, no doubt about it, 100% true.
The truck was loaded, the gas tank full, and the morning sun breaking. We left out of Clyde Back & Sons, headed for the big highway that ran from Des Moines to the Mississippi, then on to southern Indiana.
“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you”
(Calvin Coolidge, President, 1923-1929)