Items Found In The Abyss

I am not in the sort of mood to write out a whole continuous post that makes coherent sense so instead I offer you some of my more recently acquired wisdom. Use it wisely.

*No matter who you are, what you look like or what you stand for in life you will inevitably spend at least one night with your head in a bucket. It is a night you should remember when yours is not the head in the bucket.

*How to discover your best friend: when something happens in your life that seems dramatic, emotional, life-altering, controversial and scandalous the best friend is the one who says "so what?" knowing that no amount of angst changes who you are and how much they love you.

*We will all love deeply throughout our lives. The expression "to fall in..." is more accurate than we like to think. The loves we lose will haunt us, the loves we gain will guide us. In the end we have to spend a certain number of nights alone and that is why we should all learn to knit.

*The best kind of love is the kind that laughs with you, at you, around you and because of you.

*An illness of the mind will never been treated with the same sympathy as one of the body. On the other hand, all the best famous dead people were bat shit insane.

*Being a cynical non-believer in God does not make you any more normal than the guy who chants his mantras on the way to class. (In extreme cases it makes you skeptical and awkward and therefore devoid of normal social interactions.)

*And the following Michael Franti song:

Don't fear your best freinds, because a best friend would never try to do you wrong.
And don't fear your worst friends,
because a worst friend is just a best friend that's done you wrong.
And don't fear the night time, because the monsters know you're devine.
And don't fear the sunshine, because everything is better in the summertime.

But it's never too late to start the day over, it's never to late, pick up the phone.
You know it's never too late to lay your head down on my shoulders,
it's never too late just come on home.

Don't fear the water, because you can swim inside you within your skin.
And don't fear your father, because a father's just a boy without a friend.
And don't fear to walk slow, don't be a horserace, be a marathon.
And don't fear the long road, because on the long road you got a long time to sing a simple song.

But it's never too late to start the day over,
it's never too late, pick up the phone.
You know it's never too late to lay your head down on my shoulders,
it's never too late just come on home.

Don't fear your teachers, because if you listen you can hear music in a school bell.
And don't fear your preacher, if you can't find heaven in a prison cell.
And don't fear your own self, paying money to justify your worth.
And don't fear your family, because you chose them along time before your birth.

But it's never too late to start the day over,
it's never too late, pick up the phone.
You know it's never too late to lay your head down on my shoulders,
it's never too late just come on home.

Hold to your children, hold to your children, hold to your children, let them know

Sam