* I have peed over the edge of the Grand Canyon.
* I once ate a dog biscuit by mistake. It looked like jerky.
* I have run for public office.
* A buddy and I went into a gay bar by mistake one time. Interesting.
* I did pay a guy to do some work before he did it.
* Have you ever gone the wrong way and claimed it was a shortcut?
* I did play a gold course backwards.
* When you're stoved up, you can take too many X-LAX.
* I have voted Democratic. To paraphrase Mark Twain, we shouldn't vote because it only encourages them.
* One thing I'm pretty sure of: Drinking a bottle of tequila can make you real stupid.

* I've never peed on an electric fence.
* I've never bought a boat.
* I've never ridden one of those mechanical bulls. Or a real one, for that matter.
* I've never gone anywhere early or late because of the time change.
* I've never ate more than one whole pie at a sitting.
* I've never watched a soap opera.
* I've never bought a gun thinking it would make me safer.
* I've never read the Enquirer or any other grocery store tabloids.
* I've never gone into a restaurant, ate, and walked out without paying. Knowingly.
* One thing I'm particularly proud of never having done: I've never voted Republican.

At
Some point
Your relationship
With God
Will
Become like this:

Next time you meet Him in the forest
Or on a crowded city street

There won't be anymore

"Leaving."

That is,
God will climb into
Your pocket.

You will simply just take

Yourself

Along!

(Sufi poet Hafiz)

"We had the misfortune of having a neighbor who lived just to the south of us named Frederick Weyerhaeuser. We have fine white pine on our reservation, and he built his empire off of the land of the Ojibwe people in northern Minnesota.
And that is how some get rich and some get poor. It's important to remember that most of these guys did not get rich spinning flax into gold. They took someone else's land, and they took someone else's wealth." Winona Laduke

* You cannot hide behind a lie, because a lie never stands still.
* You screw up, you re-do. You don't re-do, you stay screwed up.
* In seeking revenge, you'll never be satisfied, because revenge has no final resting place.
* Talking the talk is not enough. Walk the walk. Do the work. Bust your ass. Pay the price. Draw the line.
* In seeking The Call, follow your heart, not the sales pitch of a recruiter or the promises of a minister or the beckoning of your family.
* I would just as soon feel pain as nothing at all. Pain reminds us we are alive, when sometimes we forget.
* Fight the fight without ever raising a hand or making a fist. Give up the need to conquer and dominate.
* There's nothing wrong with silence. Feeling the need to talk fills no human requirement, outside of showing others just how dumb you really are. Or perhaps by talking the talk, you are trying to impress yourself.
* When you look in a mirror, don't turn away and run, or ignore what you see. Face the face.