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Posted 2017-07-29T12:55:00Z

Painful Perks

"I wish I had the money to pay my way past the lines in security," I once heard a snarky lady comment as my family trouped through the frequent flyer line at the PDX airport when I was a kid. My thirteen or fourteen year old self wanted to turn around and tell her we didn't fork out cash for this privilege but rather I'd paid with years of my life spent having my dad fly across the country each week and spend only the weekends with me and that this was hardly fair compensation that on our single week together as a family we got to cut a security line before flying to whatever destination we had where my dad also had business meetings to go to but we called it a vacation.[...]

Posted 2017-07-20T19:35:10Z

The Great Perhaps

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps" is a much quoted line attributed as possibly the last words of the poet Francois Rabelais and coopted by John Green's protagonist in his debut novel Looking For Alaska. The idea in the novel is that we best not wait until our dying breath to find the wonders in the world. I live similarly, though I'm anticipating great wonders beyond this world as well.[...]

Posted 2017-07-07T20:56:24Z

The Fire Swamp

"I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely." 

In the iconic scene in The Princess Bride, Wesley optimistically tells Buttercup they have learned the secrets to survive the fire swamp by the warning signs of the sparking sound before the fire spurts and the lightening sand is avoidable as well. He next wrestles and roasts an ROUS before they meander out victorious where he again voices his belief they could live there happily for some time. [...]