Radio

i am posting this speaking into a phone. not typing, speaking. i am not a huge technology fan but this is pretty amazing Published with Blogger-droid v1.5.5

I heard this poem by Charles Bukowski on the radio yesterday, and even if I'm not a huge fan of his, something made me want to post this, so here it is: "My father always said, "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house and we were up at dawn to the smell of coffee, frying bacon and scrambled eggs. my father followed this general routine for a lifetime and died young, broke, and, I think, not too wise. taking note, I rejected his advice and it became, for me, late to bed and late to rise. now, I'm not saying that I've conquered the world but I've avoided numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some common pitfalls and have met some strange, wonderful people one of whom was myself—someone my father never knew." what do you think? Mahalo

The other night I was hanging out with a friend, we were talking about plastic surgery (i know, this topic seems to be coming up a lot). I have a hard time understanding it, unless there's a serious condition that needs to be fixed, but I was happy to hear that she feels the same way, and I know that her husband (he's one of my best friends) couldn't care less for that stuff. After a while we concluded that, for our age (I'm 41, she's a little younger), we can't really complain about our bodies, we're in pretty good shape, we don't have to take any meds regularly, and our bodies still let us do most of what we love. I think that she joked saying: if they told me 20 years ago that I'd be in this shape now, I would have said "where do I sign up for that?". This got me thinking: I could probably say the same, and it applies to many different aspects of my life: I have a good job and a good salary (that I complain about, of course :)), I liv...