i just checked my analytics for the first time in a month and a certain butler, pennsylvania person has read this blog! yay! and they voted! even more yay! so it's a three-way tie between wisconsin, ohio and new mexico.
this makes me way more happy than the occasion warrants.
i found the above phrase written on a cardboard carrier for these metal grate things i originally bought for sealing up the big holes in the walls that served as heater vents at my old house. i recently moved it from my bedroom to the other room and have it propped against this bookshelf thing with other thin tall things similar to it. i just noticed the silkscreen in front of it had fallen a bit so went to pick it up. lo and behold, a strange piece of graffiti that i did not notice a month or even a day ago. who wrote this on my piece of cardboard? when? why? i've got suspects here, but i don't think their little paws can wield a marker. i need the Dead Boy Detectives to sort this out. and if you haven't read that book, then shame on you!
today i found out that a man i'm not sure i met died yesterday. his name is chas smith and he was a professor at CSU. i'd gone to his "rumble in the jungle" parties at starwood a few times so i probably met him at least once in some fashion.
why am i telling you this?
because today i felt like something was gone from my life when i read of his passing. a brighter star in our sky went out and the night seems slightly darker now. it feels like another missed chance.
tell people you love them RIGHT NOW!
smile at everyone you see RIGHT NOW!
quit the job you hate RIGHT NOW!
become the thing you want to be RIGHT NOW!
death always makes me both melancholy and pumped up.
i love you all. even you people who don't read this. i love all beings in existence, even the ones who piss me off.
much love to you all from the very deepest cockles and burrows of my heart.
i read this in the plain dealer today. it's a story from the new york times. go here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/world/africa/07congo.html?ex=1349496000&en=e0e53bcfe8de2647&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
sorry but safari users like me don't get the nifty 'add link' button so it's cut and paste until i figure it out.
people suck. on many, many levels.
