random observations
stuff I see and think at any given time.
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tumblr category: creative writing
The woman down the street had a restraining order on her husband until last week when she took him back. He beat her the next day, but she loves him for better or for worse. A couple in the next town are swingers and like to swap spouses at their home about once per month. Another couple downtown had their kids taken away for dealing drugs from their home. A famous radio personality has been divorced six times. A GOP presidential candidate cheated on two previous wives and left them when they were gravely ill. I’m ok with all of that. It’s their business—not mine.
However, I just found out that a friend of a friend wants to marry her monogamous girlfriend of 27 years. That crosses the line. If that happens, my parents’ marriage will be a shambles.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life.”
What is the purpose of a newspaper?
By Mathew Ingram, gigaom.comReuters blogger Felix Salmon recently wrote about what he saw as a hypothetical business opportunity for the cash-strapped New York Times: namely, selling early access to news scoops like the paper’s expose on Walmart. The idea…
Newspapers need to evolve with the times but at what cost?
I’ve gotten away from writing here and I really need to get back. Life has a way of getting in the way of all the things I want to do. Plus, new things come in and start to take over. For instance, I’ve started posting “jim’s hump day philosophy” on my facebook status every Wednesday (ok, almost every Wednesday) and I really should be posting it here.
So, from now on, “Jim’s Hump Day Philosophy” will become a regular feature in the resurrection of random observations which I have allowed to lay fallow for too long.
In addition, I will be adding other regular, weekly, monthly or seasonal features to give you the reader something to follow and expect. I promise to do my best at keeping up.
I guess this means I’m back.
Hello, everybody!
Stand up for Trayvon Martin….
Stand up for justice.
We can not know
What we don’t know.
That’s how it has to be.
Like sleeps that break
When we do wake,
To see what we can see.
The same is true
When we are blue
But dark will turn to day.
As Winter ends,
My dear good friends,
The Spring will show the way.
So do not frown
Or stumble down
In bolted iron fetter.
When time goes passed,
You’ll see quite fast,
It really does get better.
