Posts Tagged ‘musings’

36 Trips Around the Sun

Posted: 2nd July 2010 by Brian in Personal
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I turned thirty-six in February.  Thirty-six, if you can believe that shit.  Four years away from forty.  Forty!  That’s the age of someone’s dad!  Oh wait; I am someone’s dad. When I was young-grade school age-I never thought much past age thirty.  I wondered what I’d be doing when I was twenty one.  I wondered [...]

The Way of the Dinosaur

Posted: 12th April 2010 by Brian in Personal
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After visiting the “Dinosaurs Unearthed” exhibit at the St. Louis Science center a few weeks ago, it got me thinking about the reality of extinction and fallacy of immortality.  Dinosaurs were the dominant organism on this planet for 160 million years; compare that to humans who’ve dominated this planet for not even 1/4 of one [...]

The Surreal Night

Posted: 5th September 2009 by Brian in Personal
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My dad likes the morning.  He’s up at the crack of dawn, before most everyone else, and he loves the way the worlds looks and feels at that time.  I however, like the night.  I’m sitting here in front of my house at 3:30 am; the insects are active and loud, the air is damp [...]

Getting It Out of My Head

Posted: 1st September 2009 by Brian in On Writing
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What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. -Mark Twain I’m not sure exactly when Mark Twain said that but no doubt well over one hundred years ago, and it’s true. I saw [...]