husband. dad. grain handler. grain merchant.
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I lost my hometown when I was 14. I never grieved that until I was in my late 20s. I went back for a funeral once, something told me I didn’t need to come back there anymore. In the last year I’ve connected with more people from my hometown in 29 years. Life is weird. I had a good realtor friend, he said people move back home to die, (he meant old people). They come back from Florida and Arizona. Life is a mystery.
Jun 15
Every time I go back to visit my family in Missouri, I feel an unsettling amount of guilt in my bones when I return to California. Every part of me wishes I hadn’t created this permanent fracture between us, separated by miles of mountains, plains, highways, and stars. It’s an inner-conflict I will probably never quite shake. Still, I know they are happy for me. I know they are proud of the woman I’ve become. I just miss them.
“I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can’t forgive the way they rob me
Of my childhood souvenirs
Memories that can’t be boughten
Can’t be won at carnivals for free
Well, it took me years to get those souvenirs
And I don’t know how they slipped away from me”
-John Prine
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Being homesick is part of the human condition. I’m nostalgic but how I’ve overcome it is focusing on things in my daily life that make me happy. That’s my advice to all homesick fools.
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True. Our consistent action overtime is the only thing that can convince others, but it takes about 20 years.
Jun 15
“You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I called a fellow millennial at 9:30 pm without texting first, no answer, my wife asked, “what were you thinking?”I said I’m an old millennial, I don’t know all the rules
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Jun 14
“I’ll give you 50 cents if you make your bed”, I bid to Mary (7).
“EIGHTY”, she countered quicker than a cat blinks an eye.
Mary will be okay.
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Jun 13
I’m a proponent of reading but people should know He also sleeps on the manufacturing floor. He doesn’t own a home. No spouse. The guy is so intense. I’m not surprised the first trillionaire happened in the United States of America, the capitalist democratic republic makes for human flourishing.
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Jun 13
A guy told me I needed a hobby, I made an investment in my new hobby today.
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Jun 13
Next investment is binocs, our bird feeder is too far away from my perch
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