Archive for April, 2008
For some, escape isn’t conscious nor voluntary
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Compelling books, movies and plays often are often enjoyed as a past time because they allow you to escape from your personal issues for a brief time. As the story unfolds, one can savor the characters’ experiences thus slowly allowing thoughts of one’s own life to trickle back into consciousness. Getting “lost” this way is [...]
Life in the Fastlane
Monday, April 28th, 2008During the early 70s, I ran into an old gal pal I used to hang out with in my late teens. Actually, I didn’t just run into her casually. I had learned that she needed help and if anyone could do it, it would be me, she said. She had been involved in a [...]
“The Shadow”
Sunday, April 27th, 2008The Shadows are ancient alien species in the science fiction television series Babylon 5. Their home world is Z’ha’dum. Their claim towards order is to contrast the Vorlon’s queries of, “Who are you?”
The Shadows ask the question, “What do you want?” Their purpose and intent is centered more toward desire rather than [...]
Dancing together? No Way!
Sunday, April 27th, 2008A modern Orthodox Jewish couple, preparing for a religious wedding, meets the rabbi who is supposed to perform the ceremony. The rabbi asks if they have any last questions before they leave.
The man asks, “Rabbi, we realize it’s tradition for men to dance with men, and women to dance with women. But, we’d like your [...]
But do they know how to spell sandwich?
Saturday, April 26th, 2008While searching for some background on my paternal roots, the family tree leads to Marie Antoinette and I’m not sure how I feel about that. My paternal grandmother, her sister, her brothers, and cousins were sent to America by their great grandmother’s finances and she must have had some sort of money backing her. She [...]
A Dream Within a Dream
Thursday, April 24th, 2008“Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream [...]
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