Merkin
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Yeah, balderdash.
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Hooray for you, Jason. This is an enormously inspiring, heart-gladdening account of a man who has faced his demons and is winning his life back to where he wants to be. You have my very best wishes.
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Wow, that is in the boonies, Jason. I was more-or-less a Scranton--Wilkes-Barre barfly, with occasional forays toward Allentown and Harrisburg. Far easier to go north, over the line into New York State, where the drinking age was 18 throughout my high school years and fake ID was more convincing.
Gourmet burgers, ribs, and wings, oh my! That's certainly not the bar food of my youth. -
it's great to read of your successful transition from Pennsylvania backwoods boy to Wing-Man to the rich and famous, Jason. I’ve followed your ups and downs over the years and you are more than deserving of a happy ending.
BTW, where was that crummy tavern in PA? There's a slight chance I drank soapy draft and ate pickled eggs and phony cutlets bellied up to its bar many long years ago. -
Jason, so glad to see you still full of piss and vinegar. If I could I'd give your old bald head a noogie to express my joy. But any neat-freak like you are is nuts to have cats.
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Congratos to you Camy, for that massive accomplishment. When do we get to read it?
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Very best wishes, Jason!
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Sending supportive thoughts your way as strongly as I can. And for B as well.
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These are two great sets of comment on writing, and taken together they are almost a complete manual on how to move a manuscript from start to finish. For me, these suggestions boil down to attitude and persistence: a writer has got to believe in what he is writing about, and he has to try many routes to get to the end he has had in sight from the start. Thanks, Jason and Cole, for taking the time and making the effort to explain how the process works for you.
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I'm rooting for you, Jason. I've always admired you, both as a person and as a writer, as someone who tells it like it is, and I am confident you can work as hard on your own behalf as you did for so long for someone else's gain.
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We don't try to feed six people offen one chicken, Colin. That's not hospitable. And if you don't think those beaks aint sharp, ask any kid sent to gather eggs from under a settin hen.
Using beaks to pick our teeth is just an expression. We use broke-off kitchen matches just like everyone else. -
What a ridiculous part of a chicken to bring out as the draw for a destination restaurant. Plus whatever becomes of all those sad chickens running around with no wings? They must look like a bunch of Schmoos.
Here in Virginia when we fry up a chicken there won’t be anything left of it on the plate except for the beak. We use that to pick our teeth. -
Oh, Jason, whose pen is still mightier than the sordid, you haven't lost your touch.
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I did that burnout routine once upon a time myself, Jason. You've got to back off it, delegate, divide the workload. Easy to say, very very hard to do, but sanity is at stake here.
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I think it's absolutely charming, Jason. It captures mood, personality(s), and sets up a classic situation and suggests its outcome all in (for you) a minimum of words and with a minimum of fuss. I love it. Sorry I took so long to stumble upon it.
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I don't think you get how this works, Cole.
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Way to go.
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My heart goes out to Julian, and David, and you, and all presently involved in Julian's care. One of the greatest desires of any fifteen- year-old is to be independent of his family, and that motivation is ideally what drives the development of maturity and understanding and the assumption of responsibility for oneself. But how can that work well when there has never been the buy-in to the concept of family in the first place? It's a tragic situation, and I can't conceive of any way that seven months with you could have repaired the destruction wrought by the preceding fourteen and a half years of Julian's life.
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I offer you this:
Gardening
A meditation
Each day, grow.
Watering:
Regard your self within the world.
Tell your self the world has nurtured you.
Tell the world how your self has contributed.
Together we all are the garden.
Tending:
Look for the spent leaf and cull it.
Bind up wounds and wrap weak limbs.
Cleanse infestations that eat at the heartwood.
Prune to a shape that pleases.
Blooming:
Prepare the blossom.
Cultivate beauty and restful harmony.
Arrange a presentation to complement others.
Contemplate your handiwork.
Regard your self within the world.
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That's a powerful column, Des. What religious leadership seems to have in common around the world and throughout history is the fear that we will think for ourselves, and they are bent on achieving the means to prevent that, regardless of the consequence to our humanity.
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Glad you got them back to math; now there's a subject you can sink your teeth into.
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Just clicking on the picture works for me, Richard. So sorry you were vandalized; I hope no one has been hurt by glass shards. Did you lose anything besides the window? I'd urge you to consider replacing it with a glass or plastic product designed to withstand impact.
Best wishes, James
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One important thing you've left out: Do your utmost to grow up together, helping each other toward maturity so that one of you is not left behind.
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I've loved that sketch since I first saw it a year or two ago. How do the firefighters react to it?
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