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I want to tell you something that was said to me recently. But as with most things, I can’t tell you what was said, straight-out. My mind tends to work like thousands of little index cards, all attached to each other by a string. If I want to get to one simple idea, I have to first make my way through twenty or thirty related ideas that are all threaded together. If I pull one card, another comes with it, then another and another and so on, until I’m ensnared in a tangle of cards and string and I’ve forgotten what the hell I was talking about in the first place. This is usually what causes my wife’s eyes to glaze over.

So in telling this, I’m going to take the long way around so I suggest you sit back and enjoy the ride. Hopefully I’ll be able to find my way to the end of the story without getting lost. Probably not though.

Whatever. It’s not like you’ve got anything better to do.

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I know its kinda blurry. It makes it more art-y.

Whatever losers.

(I swear, art is lost on y’all.)

Here is one of my favorite quotes from the philosopher, Elwood P. Dowd.

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, “In this world, Elwood, you must be…”, she always called me Elwood, “…In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.

You may quote me.

My wife was talking about the adolescent stage of development. She described it as a point in life where a person is very ego-centric but fails to accept responsibility for their own actions. It is the “everything happens to me” stage in life. She used her students as an example:

Student: Mrs. V., you gave me a zero.

Trica: No I didn’t.

Student: Yes you did. You gave me a zero and now I’m failing your class.

Tricia: No sweetie, I don’t give grades, students earn them. You didn’t turn in your assignments so you earned a zero. Because you earned so many zeroes, you earned a failing grade in my class. See the correlation?

Student: What does correlation mean?

Tricia: Look it up.

“Wow.” I said, “I know some grown folks like that.”  She nodded in agreement.