"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know... How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien." - Plato
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posted by K-nine @ 13:29
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A divorced northeastern North Carolina farmboy back in Carolina via Washington DC, a small Carribean island and Texas. Mostly self-educated I am the product of public schools, a few trips to college, the school of life (& hard knocks), a WWII veteran father who could build anything, and a Sunday School teacher mother who loved to read anything she could lay her hands on. As the youngest of five I am no stranger to having to defend my actions (not to mention myself).
"Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it."
-Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
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Don't know where you are this Christmas, but I thought you would love this story:
Phone rings last night, caller ID says "Ahoskie, NC" - I only know one person from Ahoskie, NC. I answer the phone, screaming "Who loves ya, baby? Tell me it's you!"
The poor woman on the other end pauses, stammers for a minute before meekly uttering "I think I have the wrong number."
Merry Christmas, Brother-Man, wherever you are.
Sorry for my lack of communication to everyone this Christmas... Friends as well as family. I stayed put right here in ATX. Christmas morning I awoke, reached over to my nightstand to retrieve a good book and stayd put until 1:30. I never get to do that. It was just a nice lazy day.
Hope your Christmas was wonderful and the New Year brings you all you wish for!
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