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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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September 17
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One of my favorite places to go is about 12 miles out in the Atlantic Ocean...in my little 20 ft. skiff. The clear water is a deep emerald color and the sunlight bounces around and shimmers randomly. I meet survivor sea turtles, bow-riding dolphin, silent sharks, giant rays rocketing out of the sea and backflipping, schools of porgies, sea robins, slashing blues and Spanish mackerel, the occasional whale, and stray birds. I love the quiet and solitude and vastness. I am a way too veteran educator - special education teacher, high school principal, college professor and some other fun waystops. A political junkie, a cowboy in a previous life, a lover of synchronicity in daily life...meditation and prayer, and a believer that the best days are still ahead. My plan is to finish strong. ************************************ I love following politics and current events, but they all take second place to watching a hockey game. I write occasional Op-Ed pieces - usually on educational issues. My two kids are the true loves of my life. ************************************

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OCTOBER 28, 2010 7:36PM

Lovers love, liars lie, whiners whine and stuff like that

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It sure does get depressing around this joint at times. Two posts in particular – one by koshersalami and one by  Cranky Cuss – just make me want to eat worms.  Not really. The worms deserve better. Sorry you guys are feeling so despondent.

Where’s the love fellas?  The sun will come up tomorrow. Lovers will love. Things will change. Fighters will fight. Helpers will help. Complainers will complain. Children will play. Whiners will whine. The sun will go down. Rich people will get richer. The poor will stay poor. Politicians will fight.  Liars will lie. Change will happen. The tide will come in. People will disappoint. Some will triumph.  New discoveries will occur. Change will march forward.  Babies will be born. Some won’t. The tide will go out. Storms will happen.  Someone will catch a perfect wave. Someone will die that shouldn’t. Life.  And so it goes.

Time to move on boys. Move as in take action.  Take some action to re-connect to life  Try prayer. Help someone else. Get some rest. Try a long walk. Meditate.  Watch a funny movie. Pray. Meditate.  Avoid Pat Buchanan on Hardball at all costs. Go to the gym. Cut your neighbor’s grass. Get out and soak in some of this glorious world we live in. Take a trip and not to a city.  Life is short.  Don’t waste it complaining on OS. Don’t waste it period.  Vote.  For goddsake vote.  Or else shut-up. When you pray move your feet.  Go back to school.  Read a book. Go to WalMart and chat with the greeter. Laugh more and stop hanging out with the whiners – unless you want to. Imagine the possibilities…we shall overcome…you come too.  Please. We can do it.

And don’t take this post personally. Or do.  It won’t matter.  The sun will come up. Promise.

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Are you calling me a lying whiner? You'll live to RUE the day my friend, oh yeah, rue it big time :-|
**TEARS** And the Prez will send me an email going, "Tink, I want to go on a road trip with you and Grif!!!" And I say, "It's alright with me if it's alright with Grif!!"

Whooooooohoooooo!!!! But the Lexus died so we gotta take the Studebaker!! But that's alright too, cause we can sleep in the back or smoke our cigars and drink our malts!!!

Big smiles all around.

:D
Oh yeah, and nana can come with us too. He needs the trip. All grumpy butt and everything!@! Sheesh!!! :D
I killed a man with a roofing hatchet once. Or maybe I just imagined it. Either way, this sort of vicious attack won't go unanswered.
nana, get in the car damnit!! We're going to New York to see a Broadway play.

Or a broad.

Either way, get in the car!!!! :D
Well, OK, as long as we get to kick the shit out of some cripples in the alley later.
Are you calling me a lying whiner?

I think that was a typo. He meant "lying weiner". Now isn't that better?

**walks away whistling "don't Worry, Be Happy" just to be annoying**
nana, get in the car damnit!! We're going to New York to see a Broadway play.

Tink, I think Nana's more in to Broadway Musicals, if you catch my drift!

**walks away whistling "Some Where Over the Rainbow"**
God bless you, grif. God bless you, my man. And He will.

I was feeling a little lonely out here and definitely not for the reason implied in the last line of Cranky Cuss's top-rated post, an Editor's Choice.

Let's drive on now.
Thanks, I needed that.
Sheesh!!!! Just havin a little fun guys. I mean really - life is short and we only get so many roadtrips. And I don't even remember most of 'em. I'm working on a post of woes for next week when the election is over and Palin starts her campaign. We ain't seen nothin yet. And the sun might stop coming up then...but it probably won't.

Hugs and kisses all around. Nana and Tink in 2012 - now there's a ticket. Think about it.

And thanks to those who commented seriously too. We'll survive the craziness.
It's okay grif, truely it is, even after the elections. I've put in my bid contract to sell some super high tech intelligence technology to the gubermint.

We'll win one for the gipper in 2012!! WE WILL SURVIVE!! WOO OOOOO OOOOO!!

**hugs**

Nana, kick away!!!!

**wanders off**
I'm on the fence on this one, grif. I appreciate both points of view.
OK. My next post is a campaign manifesto for NanaTink or TinkNana in '12. We need a slogan. Something like "Change We Believe In" or "Hope" or something original like that.
grif, Love your list! Great "To Do" list for depression, and what I have been doing to come out of it. One foot in front of the other, the sun will come up tomorrow whether you want it to or not. Glad you said it!
"Nanatink in 2012; Because Really, It Makes as Much Sense as the Alternative."
hey Grif, take me out on your skiff for a bit and let's call it a day.
Enjoy the small bits, because that is all we will ever remember as important.
grif_ ... i am an optimist ... i am positive that today will be better
than tommorrow ... lew
"Nanatink in 2012; Because Really, It Makes as Much Sense as the Alternative."

Which one of you is on top?

(I'm not talking about the ticket, either! ;~) )
Yay! I love your attitude! And so glad you repeated the word, "Meditate." It's easier than you think and it can change your life. It changes mine every day. Thanks a million.
I liked the steady beat of this declaration
Yes. Can I print this off and give it to my....oh, maybe I'll just put it on my mirror to remind me, and everyone around me, that we/I have the POWER. Yes.