I was digging deep again, as I do every year or so, into my box of keepsakes and relics that I really don't know why I kept them but did. Stuff I wrote as a kid (some of that, I must say, rather disturbing), old letters of the real life mailed sort, newspaper clippings of miscellany, that have strangely yellowed and gotten brittle already and that shit just ain't right since it seems not so long ago ... whatever, I'm getting old. From the Kansas City Kansan , newspaper that we got delivered daily, Friday, July 25, 1975, I had cut out and kept this one particular article headlined "Youngster completes first novel." I was always writing as a kid, so I remember very well snipping this one item, on account of the twelve-years-old youngster was my same age, and I very much wanted my own novel published. Of course I hadn't written it yet, but I figured this proved I could do it, too, kept it for an affirmation thingy. Over the years I've remembered saving that s...
Short and sweet... Like me. LOL!
ReplyDeleteSo...wait. We bring carnage upon ourselves because we shift our focus to tending the delicate ecosystems we inhabit instead of the inhabitants? After reading Hudgins article this makes perfect sense: everything is worthless unless it's exploitable or a direct benefit to human needs. Who wants to build a rocket to blow up Mars? I'm sure we could find some profitable raw materials, or the very least make room for an interstellar super-highway to the casinos on Jupiter.
ReplyDeleteDiane,
ReplyDeleteIn a family of tall people I'm considered short. I'm about 5 ft 3 or 5 ft 4 on a good day. My 12 - year -old is almost taller than I am.
I Guess Hudgins is having trouble seeing the forest for all the damned trees!
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell!
ReplyDeleteI did some roadside dumping instead.
ReplyDeleteGood one, Doug! Love it. :)
ReplyDeleteScrew the planet, score for us!
ReplyDeleteAmen, Christopher! And thanks for your thoughts. :)
ReplyDeleteWow...rainlillie is short? OK, seriously, HUH? Yeah, picking up trash is pretty extreme. Planting a tree is doggone RADICAL. Frickin' Socialist Commies.
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