"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The Sun is the same in a...

"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the...

I don't like Mondays (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays (Tell me why) I don't like Mondays I wanna shoot, ooh, the whole day down Down,...

"Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all" - Charles Bukowski An absolutely perfect morning in the valley of the...

"The young always have the same problem--how to rebel and conform at the same time." -Quentin Crisp For those who follow this blog, all...

"Teachers told us The Romans built this place They built a wall and a temple on the edge of the Empire garrison town They lived and they...

"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are...

" We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de...

"Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future." -Alvin Toffler "I have never been...

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." -Marcus Tullius Cicero A delightful, rainy morning...

“Unexpected increases in inflation are the de facto equivalent of outright default, for inflation allows all debtors (including the...

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we...

"Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves." - Henrik Ibsen "The last horizons I could see are now...

I got sixteen days Fifteen of those are nights Can't sleep when the bed sheet fights Its way back to your side -Whiskeytown Well, it's...

"Combien de temps" -REM Exhausted this morning after the realization yesterday of another mis-calendared deadline by the former...

"Fascism is capitalism in decay." - Vladimir Lenin So much to recount, with so little time these days. Flying around southeast Oklahoma...

Ventura Highway in the sunshine Where the days are longer The nights are stronger than moonshine You're gonna go, I know 'Cause the free...

"The eye never blinks, it pierces shadow and stone. Concealed within his fortress, the lord of Mordor sees all." -JRR Tolkien So this...

Four minutes to my first call, after spending the morning doing tax homework. But the good news for any reader is that my haste forces me...

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies . - Rudyard Kipling 9:06 on Monday morning. Two calls already,...