6 November 2023

I heard somebody say about their life, “I’m just going to have fun, if it doesn’t hurt anybody…” This is an idea or two that has grown in my lifetime and I think the chickens have come home to roost on the issue. Life is tough, we are surviving on planet Earth. There’s always going to be work to do, it doesn’t matter if workers are old, disabled or slow, attempting to make 1% improvement is better than surrendering to the wolves. I’ve been learning to speed read for a couple months now with positive results. I only started reading seriously when I was 25 years old, all through school it was easy enough to get by without reading. I didn’t understand the nature of work when I was younger and now see it as a good thing. Perhaps it was because I wasn’t in control of myself or perhaps a child’s good and adult’s good are different. Values vary from vantage points, geographically the American South does align with my nature better than the North East. Philadelphians seem to be proud of their rudeness only to overshadow it with love, “I’m kiddin’, what can I do for ya?” Appropriately I’m from the city of brotherly love and that’s where my brothers live. For years I’ve worked on a book idea outlining and writing in notes that would sort of tell my life story, the trick is telling the parts that haven’t happened yet. My original idea was inspired by Slaughter House V, a great book, where each chapter would basically be it’s own story. Over the weekend I decided that would be lame, writing a book needs one point. Starting the podcast represents to me starting a new phase of my life, my king era. That means building my kingdom, as such if I’m going to do anything then I want to take it seriously. I’m going to be a king and start wearing a crown. You can be a king too, or queen, let’s just bear in mind the King of kings.