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October 2009 
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Posted on May 19th, 2009
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maze
maze
I'm eating pretzels. The stick kind. Crunchy and salty too. I'm pouring a glass of beer from a forty. None of this has anything to do with the river styx. The pretzels are dry, I need a sip. Here's to all the dry mouths out there. This is my simple life. A corner in a home, an old laptop computer, a bottle of beer (large by some standards) and a handful of salty stick pretzels that don't taste stale. Thank you. What an easy practice. Practicing gratitude. The beer was made in Milwaukee maybe, the pretzels and the rest of this extravaganza I'm appreciating was made not by me and who know's where or why, but goddammit it's all a part of my joy that I'm attempting to tell you about. I would tell you about the sadness I'm feeling too, but it's rather shallow. It has something to do with the pretzels in my almost empty bowl. Which reminds me. I don't much care for this half full half empty bullshit. It's a worn out metaphor, don't use it anymore. No matter which way you say your glass is, you're a fucking liar. I don't believe in half anything. Even though I do things half-assedly for the most part. Not according to me, but to whomever said that silly shit about me to begin with. I don't like most standards. A good percentage of them I do seem to follow, especially when they pertain to health and safety. But I don't pay attention simply because I want to live a long life sitting nightly before this lighted screen with a jug of beer and a bowl of pretzels...nope, not at all, it's all about hypocrisy. Mine mostly...and sometimes yours. But ultimately, I have no say in any of this. Call it god's will if you wish. Call it anything you wish. For me, I feel it good to pause now and then just to say thank you. Whereabouts unknown.
The Tea Party - The River (acoustic)
Access: Public
Oh, and I was feeling grateful just now too, without the beer and the pretzels, just in front of this lighted screen and the sound of the water flowing in the pond behind me and the chatter on the TV my son is quietly watching over chicken samosa and a glass of apple juice, after returning home from school! Glad to reconnect with you, Tom!
thank you for sharing a moment of joy from your simple life. I agree with you on the half full half empty thought, any which way it's mostly a lie. I find It's being here with whatever is that provides the bliss. That said, I've never had a pretzel but I'm ever so thankful for the beer..exhibit a when it comes to prooving there is a god.
Hi Tom,
Glad to be back on the computer and reading your always interesting take on things.
I'm in my new apartment now. It is gorgeous here. The air is so clean. The nun's huge new retreat/retirement home is in my back yard view on top of a hill/mogul.
I am going to take a picture of it. I'm joining you in cyberspace – Think I'll crack open some potato chips and a Pepsi. Tomorrow, I'll ask my daughter to pick up a 6 pack of Coors or wheat beer, or just surprise me. ((hugs))
Hey Mimi! So you moved! Glad that one was negotiated and executed well. What a deal! Now, I've decided to tell Tom that he's about half full of shit. Do you think he'll laugh?
after a good movement though…I have to refuel.
Hey ((martha))),
Yep, Tom will laugh because you under-estimated –he's at least 5/8 FOS, maybe even 3/4.
((Tom)) seems to always be full of all the Good Stuff he needs and has enough to share with us - to make us laugh, or think —or scraaaaatch our head ==wtf?
Mimi, what color are your eyes? Tom's are, like, blueish or something, right? So according to my dad, and several other people I've met throughout my life, only people with really dark brown eyes, such as myself, can Really be FOS, because they're the only people that you can see it's full up–pretty much all the way to the top. So what is is for you Mimi? Baby blues? Or Baby Bear Browns?
Yep, martha,I am in good company with You. My eyes are Cow Brown. When I worked in a office long ago, one of my bosses used to always say to me, “mimi, you are SO FOS!, that's why your eyes are so brown.!”
I think Tom' are blue or some light colour. Definitely not brown, even though ……
Well, sometimes the most FOS folk are the sneakiest. Probably that's just to throw us off track. I just KNEW you'd have big baby browns like me, Mimi! :)
I've got baby blues but I'm mostly FOS
Is that why the video you shared with us, has designer prison bars in the back-ground…tee-hee. It's a lovely, and most profound tune by the way.
Hmmm, beer and pretzels…this is almost like saying, bread and water has it's intercourse yet to be the receiving of such a graceful dance, yet to unfold:)
I do hope you enjoy the flavor cleansing of water, as well<B
It sure makes a belly full of beer, stream into a 'blues away', hun.
May the brook of your stream, be a belly awakening of purrr-fectly humming sounds of trickle-ness:-))