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Aging

“We shared the same amount of Father Time, but mine got lost somewhere in my cosmic bullshit or some elsewhere in my wonderous world.”

“One pair of socks she bought me … expresses my temperament to a T, “Yeah, I’m old. Fuck you.””

Reflections

“We wondered about those who ‘went back’, envying buddies who did whatever they wanted rather than whenever earlier roads led to wherever they were going, however they could, or would.”

“Who knows? It didn’t matter. A crazy couple confirmed something special as they headed upstream in an ageless looney bin.”

Cold War

“…saw a stoic Slav smiling at me with the universal nonverbal ‘thumbs-up’. It was the same thumb he could have used to press his launch button.”

“Compromises continued and woodchucks wondered, just how hot might a cold war get if the Cold War could drag on.”

Politics

“I despise a political system … that condones appointing … policymakers who invariably have ambitions and outside influences contrary to the best interests of our nation …”

Culture/Society

“… And what some people are predisposed to do to their partners … and others close to them … really pisses me off … Abuse. Physical hurt, mental harm. Frequently, not just whacking or jeering or domineering; ofttimes, some of each; sometimes, the all-inclusive.”

“… it seems to me that we will never get past our cultural hurdles until responsibilities for deeds, good or bad, remain solely with those who execute them; and reactions, good or bad, respond only to those who perform the deeds.”

“Outsiders, fleeing whatever hell they endured wherever they came from, were now insiders, making their new community precisely what they escaped.”

Beyond Bob

“Finally, I wholeheartedly relish that there’ll be a trickster Bob’ing somewhere in the netherworld, delighting that others’ wills will be done as they part with a painful past and nestle with a sensational next.”

“… my firm belief that humankind will get his head out of her ass before Mama Nature does it for them.”