These “Woodshed Moments” are equivalent to grabbing ner-do-wells by the scruff of the neck to get their attention and saying “Straighten up and fly right or else — and here’s why”!
It’s only frightening when you think about it: Our DNA only takes us so far in the universe – with a primary emphasis on things like survival and perpetuation of the species – and gives us little evolutionary underpinning for functioning in “civilization” at large, never mind AT LARGE!. So we have to superimpose the…
It’s what “Makes Our Day” … the acquired, adopted or bestowed assertion that we’re OK … that we have value and are headed in a reasonably ”right” direction. It’s what we live for – a sense that we’re “making it”. Life without affirmation is an existence without color or light or hope or possibility. However,…
Who has not thought – at some point – about running away? · … from oppression … · … from boredom … · … from constraint … · … from inextricable calamity · … from clamoring, cloying, conscriptive dependencies … “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!” Rhett Butler to Scarlett O’Hara Gone With…