kenyon

Thanks so much It belongs to elora now and lives with at unofficial SGChicago headquarters!
(Hopefully Ophelia won't mind me resposting this wonderful picture of her...)

Says You or Chan Marshall???

I spent a ton of time with my great grandma during the last 5 years of her life (we moved her out here to Boulder City). She had time warp vocabulary, but probably much more so - she kind of reverted to living in memories from sometime before WWII. She'd always ask me "so Robbie (she thought I was my dad) when are you going to take me with you on that machine?" machine meaning motorcycle. I'd usually say "Oh, you mean my flying machine? Wilber and Orville almost have it ready!" She never figured out she wasn't in Michigan anymore-When we'd take her in the car somewhere, she'd look at the desert and say "who put all those rocks there? It looks awful." If you could keep her focused she would tell you wonderful stories about things that happened sixty or more years prior, but nothing whatsoever about yesterday. Lucia Dardano, Mama Lou to me.


Blyss makes me dizzy she's so fucking hot. Do you think there's a tactful way for me to explain that she could do so much better than him? him meaning the chopper of course. I wish I could hook her up with a quality British fellow.

The same thing happened to me. I took care of my Grandfather when he was alive, and his wife. Now I take care of her. She's not my blood, but she was married to him for forty-four years. She loves me like the son she never had, who was never my father. Being on this tour is the first time I've been off the west coast since she stopped walking. Now every time she's sick I feel guilty. Helping yer familia is more than duty or obligation. You don't realize what it does to and for you until you done it. Personally, I feel more alive after helping her. More like I see what I have.

You are pretty good person there Kenyon.

I somehow think that most of the US isn't going to react well to this movie. I'm pretty open minded, but I don't want to see it.

yea. if I go onto a dance floor it's my partner's and then it's mine...


the entry has also been properly finished...

"gift of the majii"- Yep, you got it on the nose! Ma otter hocked Emmett's tools for her entry fee. If she won the prize money she would've bought Emmett a guitar with mother of pearl inlays. Emmett put a hole in Ma's washtub to make his washtub bass. He was going to put a downpayment on a piano for Ma with his winnings.

I'd like to believe that the riverbottom nightmare band used the prize money to go on a serious drug binge.
I wish I was from a place called "riverbottom"


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Women are weird/"Being a woman is weird"...

Seems like the same thing to me, but I could be doing that weird male thing of unconsciously twisting your words around in my head... nah that's not it; women are weird... you were right the first time.

Don't know why I was arguing with you...

Schucks!
What was the jail-time for?

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it's in Manchester, CT, near Hartford. It's a really nice interior. I'll post some more pics when it's done. It's an Italian restaurant called Bellini's. They are a small, family owned chain of 5 restaurants from the Albany area. I heard the food is great.

I got water in my power locks once. My doors kept locking and unlocking at random. It was a little hard to get in the car. And then was disconcerting while driving. It was like the car was trying to tell me something. <click click clickity click>

Hope you got your jump. The personal bit: indeed I do, but not so often. Usually it's just informal and whenever it pops into my head to do so. Any formality added is done for myself to disconnect from distractions, not because there's any proper or improper method.

You weren't being combative in the least. I've enjoyed every bit of each conversation we've had. The length of my comments will take care of themselves this week, my sis & brother-in-law are in town & we've got all sorts of plans.
I forgot to address the miracles/magic/superstition topic and I want to. The simple answer is that I feel religious language is necessarily symbolic. Religion is there for us to address and relate to things and ideas we really could not otherwise relate to. I am fond of saying, although I'm not sure I've thoroughly thought it out "either everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle." It's my opinion that an actual occurance in time and space that breaks (Gods) physical law could only be destructive. As such, it would have to fall on the "demonic" side of the coin. Which is really quite strange (on the surface) considering how chock full 'o miracles the Bible is. But return to understanding religious language as symbolic and they all shuffle around and find their place back within God's plan. Next time you open the New Testament, keep a watchful eye out for Christ speaking literally about any physical sort of attribute of divinity. The Father is like... The Kingdom of Heaven is as... If there's been anyone who more fully embraced the use of metaphor, I haven't found him

On the above topic, this little 127 page book is massive. Paul's greater "Systematic Theology" means everything to me but the funny thing is, he's very disliked by people I respect and loved by people I can't much stomach. Possible points of interest from your perspective: He was a unitarian preacher and spent a good deal of time in the last ten years of his life studying buddhism in Japan. Please don't think I'm posting a link because I think you should go and buy the damn thing, not at all.

The excerpt is fucking fantastic, I just wanted to drop by & say so. I'm in too much of a stupid rush to stop and read this poem though. Plus there's my built-in poetry problem: I'd have to concentrate on not concentrating and that never works.

Thank you for your concern. It's nice to hear a kind thought every now, and again. As for your story, it's not hard to compliment talent. I'll make it a point to check out anything else I see with your name on it.