A Book Every Parent Should Read With their Child

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

The obedient must be slaves.

Any or all Thoreau



Because Thoreau was a man with few if any illusions

We tend raise our children with way too many illusions and nonsense

Déjà Vu and Yogi Berra

A match made in heaven

Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford, Spring Training, Tampa Bay, FL 2001

Yes, it happened again

A prompt to which I have little

Or

No connection

My Country, It's Like yours

Reply from a Mandan person

My creator put me here

But

I’ve never been anywhere

Even the most poorly lit bar that wasn’t beautiful in it’s own way

My country is like yours

Trees n rocks n wind n rain or lack thereof

The people here are like yours

We all eat, drink, piss, shit, procreate, sleep and die

We are all mostly mistaken about 98% of everything

Some of us are better mannered than others

Most of us aren’t stupid, just too lazy to think for ourselves

Just like your place, some of us have a major screw loose

The earth neither loves some of us, as in your place of birth

Some of us don’t love, understand, nor care about the earth, as in your place of birth

Alas

Some of the participants are human animals just as you and I

Monkeys with or without drivers licenses

This Morning So Far away

Dahlia in my garden

Thorn's wife walked up behind him and said

{

You haven't done any of the stuff you were supposed to yet

What are you doing?

Plinky, what in the heck is plinky?

A blog, I thought you didn't do blogs...

Are you trying to meet women?

I swear Thorn, your brain is turning to mush...

Turn that computer of and get outside

Winter is coming and you have 25 things to do...

Start with the green house, then the dahlias

}

Thorn slumped

pulled the bottle of scotch[single malt] from under the desk

Took a shot

And

Turned the computer off

TaTa plinky

Seems someone was trying to hustle me

This might qualify

Do you take Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior?

A So-so Line

I never had one

But

I raced for 20 years

And

Had some sorta bike

Motocross near Tankersley

Could you take me for a ride?



All four wives

Worked on me

A nice place

The Barstow CA Dump

It's high, high above the valley

I know it's the dump

Pfftt

But

The view is incredible

And

It was at a time in my life

When

I was more in love than ever before or ever since



Everything in life and on earth was great

Everything in life and on earth was grand

Everything in life and on earth was beautiful



Sheesh