“Oh nothin. Just got back from runnin. Wipin off with a American flag I got protectin a bar chair, Alaska secessionist-style. C U at the wolf holocaust later. xoxo Frost-Dipped Churl”
In response to my twentysomething bitching about “the futility of everything”:
Writers with your interests are exceptionally vulnerable to the ugly fate of doctors and lawyers. People of good health and mind generally do not want to go see their doctor, their dentist or lawyer. They only go to see these professionals because they have to. And once there, they rarely return, call or write to say, “Hey, everything turned out all right. And I just wanted to say ‘Thanks’ for helping me. My money was well spent in securing your services.” So medical and legal professionals tend to see only the ugly, which, in turn, tends to taint their overall vision of the world and nourishes their cynicism. In medicine and law it is quite easy to give one’s self over to the dark side.
You, young Sky Walker are quite sensitive - an attribute that is a basis for your ability. So, I just want to make sure you know how to use the force to stay out of the dark side; and to begin to learn to accept life’s inevitability of ying and yang. (I say “begin to … accept” it because it IS NOT an overnight epiphany. It takes time.)
Granted, you are far too educated, traveled and experienced (read “old”) to see life through rose colored glasses. But, you are far too under-educated, and have too much to see and hear (read “young”) to see things through a dark glass.
I get scared when I think that you might accept a resolution of futility. I fully expect you to stay buoyant, rise above life’s shit and ride the current of life’s clean water with an abiding sense of joy for being alive.
If Madoff gets medium security, says Webster, “He will be assaulted, there’s no doubt about that.” It’s that much of a certainty? “God, yes. Oh, God, yes.”
While I’m right there with Team Go to Hell, Madoff, shouldn’t we Yanks be sort of embarrassed that our prisons are known by everyone to be hellholes in which criminals can mercilessly torture each other?
RIP, MJ
“I think Fergie is ashamed of you and Polo.”
America, America, this is you.
