Drinking With God

Captain of my soul

"I'll toss the cloak of dawn around my shoulders, my next to last whisky will age in its glass, my death, in love, will arrive on a tango step, and I will die precisely at six o'clock."

Sometimes I make sense.

In response to a dear friends claims of getting power and faults from others.

"Your strengths and weaknesses are solely your own. Though others add or subtract from our self image in subtle ways, it is you and you alone that takes measure at the end of the day. If you feel strong keep it, if you feel weak fix it. Externalizing does nothing but take away, it never gives back."  --Lucas

Home

After a series of adventures, painful adventures, I find myself back in my lovely home in Portland Oregon.  I have a new roommate named Mellisa, she is great.  We have a Dog and two cats now, its nice to have company.  Living alone is just not for me.  Its rather strange, growing up an only child, spending most of my time alone in my youth, and now I find myself a social maniac.  Is it a weakness?  Should I be concerned that I long for friends and companions in all my endeavors.  Is being self reliant and solitary a boon or curse?  Who knows, now where is someone to talk to????

I love you all.

Somthing nice happened today....

Its a strange strange world we live in.  Full of joy.   Don't ask what, or why.  Just look for the fun in life and you know what.   It may just find you.  I know I know... mysterious bordering on silly and childish.  But to hell with that, just know something really neat happened today.

And I love you!

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
  - Alice Thomas Ellis

self-control

pa·tience (pshns) n.

1. The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.

2. Chiefly British The game solitaire.

Synonyms: patience, long-suffering, resignation, forbearance

These nouns denote the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint. Patience emphasizes calmness, self-control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay:

Our patience will achieve more than our force Edmund Burke. Long-suffering is long and patient endurance, as of wrong or provocation: The general, a man not known for docility and long-suffering, flew into a rage. Resignation implies acceptance of or submission to something trying, as out of despair or necessity: I undertook the job with an air of resignation. Forbearance denotes restraint, as in retaliating, demanding what is due, or voicing disapproval: "It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other" Patrick Henry.

A favorite line

From the movie "The Crow". I don't know if they got it from somewhere else. I would suspect so it as the rest of the films dialog is not near as good.

""Mother" is the word for god on the lips and hearts of all children"

I want to be a parent. My internal clock has switched from self gratification to reproduction, love and nurturing.

I like the change. So does my liver.
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Post level low

I haven't been posting enough. I don't know why I think that. Apparently there is some ethereal post measure in my brain somewhere whose arrow is pointing at a red "danger low posts" sign. So I'll starting adding some thoughts via my mobile while I'm out and about. Lately I've been in a state of hyper-emotional flux. I apologize if some posts are silly or overly dramatic but hey "true to thy self" and all that jazz seems appropriate. So here's the first one. Hi there.
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Real men cry.

"Research suggests that when men and women display emotions inconsistent with the gender stereotypes we hold, we're apt to think that those feelings are more genuine and legitimate. Men are expected to show anger and stubbornness, women to express happiness, sadness, land fear. So a crying woman is just more of the same, but a sorrowful man is such a rarity that we believe he must be on the brink of disaster. Likewise, an angry man is common, but a livid woman is so rare we think that she must really be furious."

From Psychology Today

George Carlin is dead

 http://www.georgecarlin.com/

Free speech has lost a powerful voice.  Funny, poignant, strong.  I'll miss your comedy, insight and challenges George.

RIP Motherfucker