It will set you free for a price

People love simple and preposterous lies. 

They much prefer them to the truth. Truth is elusive. Difficult to discover. Infinitely nuanced. Hard to hold onto.

Each tiny bit of truth comes at a high price: A love lost. A marriage ruined. A business bankrupt. Money wasted. And a sorry soul burning on some ash pit in Hell. Nor does truth make you feel good. Like a magnifying mirror, it shows blemishes. You squirm in your seat when you see it. Often, you want to turn off the lights.

Not so with myth. It comes right over to you, fawns over you, airbrushes your photo, and botoxes your face. It flatters you with weak light and strong angles. It pretends you are the noble master and it is merely the humble slave… willing to do your bidding.

Perils of long distance calls

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Serial Killers

 What doesn't kill you makes you something

Easier said than done

 A few things about ditching

Public domain

Pick your poison privately

Not bad.

 “Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."

                                                     -William F. Buckley Jr.,

Time is just a simple function of gravity

Plus a few ever changing constants

And a Happy New Year

 

Just be yourself

It' s very simple to be yourself,
but quite difficult to be simple.

                               

Summer is officially over

Leap in Void

 You never realize the holes they left until you fall into them.

Who’s moving on, who’s kidding who

Take a break

If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. 
Even if it is broken, leave it alone, you’ll probably make it worse.

All you need is love

Perhaps not love itself but the knowledge that love is there. 
Like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet

Reservations

You still hold a special place in my heart. 
I keep this special place just for you, like a ‘Reserved’ sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant.

Tiny Beautiful Things Gone

 “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

- Frank Zappa

Learning how to fly

  I was advised that to make her fall in love, I had to make her laugh. 
  But every time she laughs, I’m the one who falls in love. 

Days of future past

The days came along one after another, 
and then four months were gone, 
and everything was gone, 
and I was gone.

2Little2Late

 Nothing is better than something

Turning the lights off

Either we forget right away or we never forget.