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Life Lessons #43: Step out of line, before you get lost. ~ Diddo Gumdrops AMONGST the silence, I wiggle a “hello” from the toes of my feet, reminding myself that I’m still alive. My cell phone mocks my very existence, sitting idle on top of the coffee table, making effortless glitches to inform me that it’s still powered “ON.” It doesn’t ring. It doesn’t vibrate. Not even a monotonous beep to let me know a text has come in. I’m waiting ...

THIS…HERE…is a horror story. One in which you can’t come home from, striving forward to warn the dignity of the world with an empty carton of cigarettes. Do you smoke?   Unfortunately for you I don’t. All things considered, however, when one must one will.   The sweet stench of lung cancer and emphysema swirl the air around us, filling in the gaps of space and time with warm weathered words of hope and malcontent. There is a whisper of a life that I can&rs...

In the beginning there are still a few phone calls, talks of what went wrong and how things could be different. You still want to be friends, we all say it, but for the most of us we don’t actually follow through with it. If we can’t be friends that’s just stupid, but for whatever circumstances we face there is just no point in denying the fact that if you find someone else before I do, I’ll be pissed. And if I find someone else before you do, you’ll be ...

In the beginning there are still a few phone calls, talks of what went wrong and how things could be different. You still want to be friends, we all say it but for the most of us we don’t actually follow through with it. If we can’t be friends that’s just stupid, but for whatever circumstances there is just no point in denying the fact that if you will find someone else before I do I’ll be pissed and if I find someone else before you do you’ll be jealous. In...

I flip the lights on and turn south. South because my mind forgets to ask the question why south makes sense. South because south is somewhere far away from the here right here. And south because I can’t give myself a good reason to stop and turn around when I’ve run out of road that’s going west. So, I go south. I run into an interstate and my mind is so focused on just getting away from it all that I jump on it, wherever it may be going, and I keep driving. When you&rsqu...