• Empathy and Recurring Dreams

    If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?

    I certainly have not perfected it, however, when communicating with people, I try to listen and decipher where they’re coming from.

    In a sense, I’m being somebody else for a second a minute the unit of Measure doesn’t matter.

    Recurring Dreams

    We all have recurring dreams and some of us remember them better than others. One dream that haunts me is being in a war and having to defend myself. The implication is firing a gun. The dream is always scary. I don’t want to live this dream out for a day, but I should.

    I assume I know what it’s like, but I have no way of living it out. So in a sense, I don’t know what I’m talking about.

    Other people’s struggles

    I have a friend who’s struggling with a battle with brain cancer. I can only imagine what she’s going through. But I have no idea. I wish I could understand and say the right thing. I could be her for a day.. I probably would mess it up more.

    On The Streets

    In this country, fighting a war or a catastrophic illness, there is a possibility of ending up in the street In My Back Yard.

  • Sketchy Story

    Sketchy Story

    I was doodling and off the page emerged this young lady who had enough of her yacht driving recent one night fling.

    It was the first one night stand in her life.

    And nothing happened.

    Except the whole of the moon.

    I wondered out in the world for years
    while you just stayed in your room
    I saw the crescent
    you saw the whole of the moon!
    The whole of the moon!

    And she is mad so I sketched her.

  • If Women Don’t Find you Handsome

    Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on.

    Foreshadowing

    When we were little kids, my father struggled with a Christmas tree that would not stand up straight. To solve the problem, he went down to the basement, pulled out a 6 inch long nail and hammered it into through the living room head floor, and directly into the base of that Christmas tree

    Above My Pay Grade

    About seven years ago when we bought this house, I had to install a fence in a short period of time. To make the job go quicker I rented a power auger. My buddy Dan was helping me and we fired up that thing on a Saturday morning. The power auger is used to drill the hole in the yard to put the fence posts.

    I was digging one of the holes and the tool kept digging and digging in the ground. It burrowed itself into the ground so that I could not remove it. We had tickets for a soccer game at noon.

    We looked at each other. “We can’t just leave this here and somebody will steal it. “

    My answer was, if they could dig this thing out, they could have it.

    We went to the soccer match and we dug that tool out when we got back.

    We did build a really cool fence. I still can’t get the gate to hang right.

    If Women Don’t Find you Handsome

    At least let them find you handy.

    Red Green

  • When I Was Younger

    When I Was Younger

    If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?

    This phrase

    You have actually always been younger and as you just read this in a very short time. You literally don’t need the bolded words either.