\u2022 I was going to write a blog in response to a vile comment made on my son’s Facebook page by one of his old middle-school friends.\u00a0 But I decided against it.\u00a0 Everyone knows how much anger and hate there is in our world without my repeating it.\u00a0 The better thing for me is to offer an alternative.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sign in front of our local pizza shop: “Whenever you lose hope, remember that God is still on the throne.”\u00a0 So, take comfort — even God gets constipated.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Which brings to mind the old riddle about immovable objects and irresistible forces…<\/p>\n
\u2022 One more day.\u00a0 One more day until the start of the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign.<\/p>\n
\u2022 After the election, I’m going to have to buy a new TV remote control — the mute button has worn out.\u00a0 (That was a joke.\u00a0 I should send it to Jay Leno.\u00a0 I can picture him frantically pushing an imaginary mute button as the audience chuckles.)<\/p>\n
\u2022 The older I get, the less resilience I seem to have.\u00a0 Here I define resilience as the ability to deal with the everyday problems of life with a minimal expenditure of personal energy.\u00a0 One response to this is to try to avoid problems.\u00a0 But this is tantamount to avoiding life. The better approach is to build one’s energy reserves.\u00a0 What works for me in that respect is good food, acts of creativity, and doing something nice for someone else.<\/p>\n
\u2022 I am not superstitious, but I am sure I will never miss that extra dollar or two that I add to a server’s tip.\u00a0 It’s my version of what-goes-around.<\/p>\n
\u2022 I have decided to once again stop shaving my upper lip.\u00a0 When a man doesn’t shave his upper lip, we call the result a moustache.\u00a0 When he doesn’t shave his scalp, we call it hair.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Not that the readers of this blog need any more convincing, but I have further evidence that man is not<\/em> descended from monkeys.\u00a0 When I am washing the dinner dishes, I always save the spatula for last, so I can use it in the meantime to scrape food off the frying pan, cookie sheet, etc.\u00a0 No chimp would ever think of that.<\/p>\n \u2022 At the TEDx Asheville event yesterday, one presenter discussed our reluctance to face our deaths and asked us to imagine what we want our last day of life to be like.\u00a0 I would choose to have a dinner prepared by and shared with my wife: filet au poivre<\/em> with a side of macaroni and cheese and a glass or two of Auxey-Duresses from that little roadside winery we visited in France<\/a> way back when.\u00a0 That would serve as a good close-parenthesis when the time comes.\u00a0 But why wait?\u00a0 (For the dinner, I mean.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022 I was going to write a blog in response to a vile comment made on my son’s Facebook page by one of his old middle-school friends.\u00a0 But I decided against it.\u00a0 Everyone knows how much anger and hate there … Continue reading