Tempest Penumbra

Yesterday I was standing in my yard and found an empty Marlboro cigarette pack that looked like it had been chewed in half. It’s not really uncommon to find random trash in my yard but I can usually figure up a possible origin of said trash. I smoke but, I don’t smoke Marlboro. My nearest neighbor doesn’t smoke, and my next nearest neighbors are a couple of hundred feet away. It wouldn’t be outside of the range of possibilities for one of my cats to chew it in half. One of them, in particular, I’m sure would have hunted it, he’s Just creative like that. What it reminded me of was a time when I was a child that I went outside to play, I was five I think, and as I played in the yard I started to find headless kittens and their heads as well. Quite gruesome I guess for a five year old. I went to tell my mother and she cleaned them up. She told me later that someone had done it to revile her because they thought she was a witch.  I’ve heard of things where in medieval times people woul...

The weight of a crap ton and a regular ton is so insignificant that there is literally, with only the slightest inclination to figurative, no difference at all. The only difference between a crap ton and a ton of anything else is the measure of ridiculous proportions of how much would be needed in logical quantities of a particular item. For instance, a ton of scrap metal in the back of a truck would be considered reasonable so it would be called “a ton of scrap metal.” On the other hand, a ton of light bulbs would be disproportionate to the needs of anyone who would use light bulbs so it would be safe to say that if you had a ton of light bulbs it wouldn’t be outside the range of reasonable speech to say, “a crap ton of light bulbs.” Really, it doesn’t have to even weigh the equivalent of a ton it just has to be more of something than reasonably needed by any amount of persons, places or things,  at any given time. Salutation Pending Johnny R Draper 

I have found that it is a universal concept that in the late of the evening the world winds down and goes to sleep. This is true even for people that work the overnight shifts of the world. During the day shifts the world is alive and awake and that wakefulness is shared with the shift scheduled need of the world but, it is left to the overnight shift to replenish that wakefulness while they themselves are not awake. Though they are awake, they sleep in the sense that they are removed from the hustle and bustle of the needs of the waking world who dreams for those invisible servitors of the night, cloaked in shadow, and rise to find the renewed world that has been left for them. Salutation Pending Johnny R Draper 

Okay. I’m going to go out on a limb here and not research this piece before I write or post it. Due to the holiday’s, work, and illness I haven’t made a blog post in a couple of weeks so, I’m desperate and still don’t really have time to do much needed research. A good edit will be about as good as it gets. Elephants. Have you ever heard anyone make the statement “to address the elephant in the room?” it simply means that there is some kind of problem that exists that no one wants to address. Its big and everyone can see it, but no one wants to say it. Elephants are generally peaceful creatures that are not prone to aggression unless provoked and this is usually the result of a stampeding heard that has been spooked. There is always someone who wants to spook the elephants or address the elephant in the room. If you are one of these people you should keep in mind that spiritually speaking, elephants represent peace so, try to take into consideration the repercussions of your actions wh...

I believe the brain and its thought processer, the mind, are far to vast and powerful for one simple personality. A single person should grow and develop multiple personalities for the sake of creative complexity. These multiples don’t have to be a disorder or a negative impact in any way. They can be your own fun little friends that live inside your head and make you smile. WARNING!!! Creating multiple personalities can cause symptoms of severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia, psychopathy, sociopathy. So, remember to tread lightly and develop positive attributes in these splinters of the psyche. You can even give them names and I’m sure there’s a “how to” guide. Salutation Pending Johnny R Draper, etc 

I never really was one to run the railroad tracks or hobo trains. That was something the my uncles did, mostly for fun and to cut a little time of a walk that probably wouldn’t have took long any way, which brings it back to just being fun.  For a while though I found a little peace and comfort in stopping at the corner store, buying a cigar, and walking the track puffing on it. Back then a thirteen year old could buy tobacco products no problem and walking the tracks was a place where I could smoke it and no one could see.  The backroad I walked crossed back and forth over the tracks but there where places where you couldn’t see the tracks from the road.  Sometimes I would set on the bank and watch the train go by and count the cars. Most of the time there were one hundred and two, sometimes a few more, sometimes a few less.  I never tried to catch a ride on one though.  Jumping back off, by process, required a nice cushy briar patch to jump into. I hate briars...

There are some thing, some styles, and just some ways in the way of fads that should never come back. The mullet is a good example of this. Parents don’t let your children get mullets. Let them shave it off, dye it green, whatever. The flat-top had more depth than the mullet. Disco. There’s another one. Nothing really great or enlightening ever came from disco. It was more like that pause you hear down in the sewers while you wait for the next person to flush. It was a decade left empty by the hippies once they figured out that they were adults and had to get a job. I’ve found that the things that have had the long-lasting effects are those things that no one can find fault in. Jazz for instance. You can hear elements of jazz in any style of music. Its that feeling of everything falling apart while melodically still being held together by an underlying pattern.  Chess is another one. The geometric strategy of this ancient game can be seen in so many modern games and, I bet you will...