The Little Words Mean the Most

A case is not a deliverable. It is a hair-raising description of how the world will be a far better place once the campaign is done & donors

 

can brush the dust from their hands, knowing, "Job Well Done!" JWD

How we remove tomato temptation from the resident woodchuck (until he discovers step ladders)

which one is D.ump

 

today

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so, walking up the stairs, I had this thought in a hall

 

The floor below:

I hear Simone through solid oak flooring. Anchorage calls.

I'm in for the nite. The gardens out front: watered, fertilized, plucked, pruned, improved, raked, swept our terrace stones clean with water. Beautiful sedimentary stone, with irregular outlines. As we always fancied ourselves.

(SENDIMENTARY would be lovely name for a card store I'm never going to start.)

This thought: life, after all, is the sum of many favors, probably hundreds of thousands in a full life, a few favors very big too, not just favors to friends but to bigger slices of the world possibly. "You, Marc, did the world a favor by becoming...." Minus regrets. The eraser is forgiveness, starting with yourself, you selfish bastard.

SO ... is that the meaning of life, generally?

Oh, there's got to be drinking. Which invariably leads to regrets, which are good, right? [See above.] Unless someone taps you on the temple with a lead sap, out of sight in an evilly dark Dublin cozy. It's seen nothing but betrayal for the last one hundred years.

 

 

This goat cost me $120. And I was a lapsed donor...

 

 

At least it wasn't an "old goat"

When you wake up, you get up

 

a rule he'd never followed all his life

 

I pay attention to what interests me. And what interests me most is me.

Ask anyone.