Hope you are well in the world.  I think of you often.

It took me twelve years to learn how to say this...

What, in the name of all things sacred...WHAT did I do wrong that I wound up doing THIS (my job) with my life?  May God have mercy on my soul.

Tired

I am so tired.

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The worst thing in the world is when precious friends just fall by the wayside over issues which should have never been issues to begin with.  I think most people in their older age will agree that good friends are difficult to come by later in life.  Time is not something easily repeated.  There are people I know things will never be the same with again, and I am sorry for all of it.  It is a torment I walk with daily and my only wish is that they do not carry a torment of similar magnitude.  As of recent, there are some individuals whom I cherish deeply that I have wrecked things beyond repair with.  I regret they could not have met me at a different time in life when I was not such an odd fellow.  If you are one of those who immediately think, "oh I would never done it differently...," you should seriously get yourself checked out because you are broken in the head.

To you, for whom I have made it strange, unpleasant, painful, awkward, or just confusing, I am sorry.  You  were always a lovely pleasure to me.

Is this a blog?

I may very well lose my mind at this rate.  Let us just hope and/or pray that changes for the better or long vacations are in store.  Yes, this is a blog.  I am a strange man, growing ever stranger.

Forwards is backwards is in reverse.

One of the most remarkable aspects of human nature is the complete and absolute difference between one person and the next. 

I am especially amazed by how one person is able to move on from something so much easier than another one.  Being fixed into a position and feeling powerless to move seems to affect every other person on earth, meaning the other fifty percent "unfix" themselves and walk forward eventually, or often immediately.
 
Maybe it is God and nature's way of maintaining a sort of balance on the earth.  When there is loss, one continually grieves as the other moves on...possibly being the idea that even though life goes on, a part of that person remains alive.  Love.  Another example.  One will continue to love somebody even when said person eased forward, far ahead of that person...so that way, something never meant to be makes a much better fairy tale.

All of this, really, is probably total garbage, but at least somebody has thought about such rubbish and had the decency to write about it.

*Strongly recommended film: The Beaver - a little gem no one saw because it had that evil Mel Gibson.  Listen, get the hell over yourselves and realize the world is fortunate it will never see certain aspects of you we may find as equally or far more repulsive.*

Lady in the Chair

Lady across the table
Sitting in your chair
Pink jacket adorning your form
Curls in your hair

Speaking in a mystery
Not hard to understand
Speaking with a lady
Speaking with a man

Darkness follows closely
It loves you much, indeed
Holds your past in vicegrips
Brings you to your knees

I cannot know your story
I do not know your heart
Nevertheless my spirit
And soul, they break apart

Your words within my earshot
Remind me of a child
I knew upon a time
For 'ere a little while

He walked his life straightforward
Until he was a man
Followed by a shadow
That always held his hand

The same one follows you
As the one behind these eyes
Which clave unto this child
And never left his side

I say a prayer for you
In silent, broken words
That may or may not be
But pulse with blood, so pure

Please utter prayers for me
If you can or dare
In a language of your own,
The lady in the chair.

*Sitting at Starbuck's in Hendersonville @9 pm on a Friday evening at the back of the store, behind a face with a story.