The Rules

Possibly the best blog ever. Especially if you are a Dad with daughters. Do read, have a good laugh, and you may think, like me, “I wish I had this when my little girl was dating.”

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Megan, Elissa & Kelliann, somewhere in Ashville, NC

I decided to re-post this from 2012. It was a hit back then and I am told that it hangs on refrigerators all around the world.

There are many new readers who have never seen it.

The Rules For Dating My Daughters

The photo? Well, that was from Elissa’s “Bachelorette Party” this weekend. They aren’t little girls any longer, but I’m still their Daddy.

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Skies of Tomorrow

I ask about the skies today and wonder on tomorrow

On clouds, and wings, and stranger things, to beg, to steal, to borrow

Perhaps I’m here, but maybe not, I’m sure I do not know

Just as I come, I turn around, and then proceed to go

I float away, and drift on high, in cuddly, snuggly clouds

I hover high, up in the sky, all covered in the shrouds

I look down on the fields and towns on rivers and on streams

I ponder now on what I see and wonder what it means

 

I am indebted,  entirely, to Ward Clever for planting these thoughts in my head, based on his lovely post which you can find at:

https://wardclever.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/skies-of-tomorrow/

 

An Intelligent Form Of Illiteracy​

One of those posts when you don’t know whether to laugh, or cry. I hope you can manage a small titter at least!

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If it wasn’t so true and sad, it would be funny.

Actually, it is funny, even though it is sad and true.

As Steve Martin would say, “This guy’s good.”

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Be Free

This could be a mantra for many of us. It’s certainly worthy of wider reading. If you’ve never read any of Owen’s work then this is a good place to start.

No Talent For Certainty

What was no longer has to be –
Be free, my friend, be free
You are not trapped in history –
Be free my friend be free

The world is wide and full of joy,
For man and woman, girl and boy,
And with the powers you employ
You’ll find your destination —
The magic’s here, it’s not a trick,
For buildings come up brick-by-brick,
And slowest times are over quick,
Within your reclamation —

What might be there for you to see?
Be free, my friend, be free
What can you make of destiny?
Be free my friend be free

For life’s a thing that must be made,
If not champagne, then lemonade,
And what’s not owed need not be paid,
So feel no consternation —
Whatever order’s there, we placed,
It’s new horizons should be faced,
And though the past can’t be erased,
It’s now just information

So…

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Really?

I just have to reblog this because it is pure common sense. We seem to be lacking this “common” sense in all aspects of life now. Isn’t it about time that we started getting real again?

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Here is a video by Mike The Cop, who lives and works somewhere in Michigan.  He’s a funny, yet serious guy and his videos are designed to explain aspects of police work to the public.

In the video below, he asks questions regarding common sense and the willingness to call out foolishness for being what it is?

I especially appreciate his comment at 4:55.  I think dad was right when as a police chief, he steered me away from following him in his career.  No one ever shot at me on the fire engine.

Here’s Mike the Cop:

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Along the way

This is an absolute gem of a haiku, and a brilliant template for living well.

Haiku out of africa

on our way to death ~ we should play and laugh and sing ~ make each moment count

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© Lize Bard

@ Haiku out of Africa

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Overheard At Lunch

Let’s pretend! Or not!

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“You can pretend to care, but you can’t pretend to show up”

. . . Jim Herlihy, USCA Athletic Director, program speaker at the Aiken Rotary Club lunch yesterday while talking about the future of USC-Aiken Athletics.

“Pretending anything is no way to go through life”. . . Me

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Service Paradigms

This explains so much about modern life!

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   Recalling my Mt. St. Mary’s College, Intro to Sociology class back in 1978, it was the first time I heard the term “Paradigm”. Dr. Chris Smith, asked the class for the definition of the word?  No one seemed to know, so he provided the answer, “Twenty cents.”

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   Back to the story.

I often become confused when I hear the word ‘Service‘ used with these agencies:

Internal Revenue ‘Service’

United States Postal ‘Service’                                           

Telephone ‘Service’                                           

Cable TV  ‘Service’                                               

Civil ‘Service’                                           

Federal state, city, & public  ‘Service’

Customer ‘Service’

   What they do is not what I thought  ‘Service’ meant.  

 

   But today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one said he had hired a bull to  ‘Service’ a few cows.

 

   BAM !!!   It all came into focus.

   Now I understand what all those agencies are doing to us!!!!!!!!    

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Video: Mr Blue Footed Booby

This is way beyond my humble mind’s imaginings. A sublime creation. Sit back and marvel.

Vox Populi

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From the director: “This short film is an invitation to a lucid dream. Let’s take dinner together!”

Written and directed by Gino Imagino

Email subscribers may click on the title of this post to watch the video.

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Sometimes What Matters

I’ve loved everything about Colleen’s Chatter Blog ever since I found it. You will love it too! Sometimes, what matters comes in neat packages. Damnit, I love it!

The Chatter Blog

Love isn’t about everything being perfect.

Or always being easy.

Love is about everything that matters.

And sometimes what matters,

Isn’t easy.

Or perfect.

But damnit, you love it.

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