i know that involuntary headshake, Green.  like a bobblehead doll in the rear window of a slow moving car in rush-hour traffic.  U wana know what keeps it from becoming a slow swim out to sea sans a return trip, or a rifle cleaning gone awry, or gone far too far out on a fuzzy limb to hang beneath until one o the kids happen up to scream and go catatonic? 

This…

Yesterday morning scrimmage, junior, starting QB/CB takes the field with his team in the morning sun; takes & returns his first licks, a little blood, a bruise here & there; strapping boy ‘bout a half inch taller than me. Then afterwards, …goes home to his microphone, drums & keyboard to make plastic keys & 220 watts continuous into his 16 year old’s version of a world-weary ballad and mournful troubadour soliloquy as he remembers tender g’byes.  Same yesterday morning scrimmage, freshman, starting JV QB/S takes the field, more of the clown in this cat; focused & casual as are his teammates; takes a snap, jukes & runs 20 yards on 3^rd down for a first down, gets up and smiles into the sun; then afterwards cops a ride to the Y to play point guard in the semi-finals of an excellent intramural basketball tournament; then calls a strawberry blonde sweetie his age from up the road to see if she wants to meet for bowling & videogames at the local all-in-one  family booze ^&^ funcenter [ironical sort of establishment, but no longer science fiction].

Minus that, there’s my best friend and most perfect smelling fellow human who is “home” & “earth” & “all the worthwhile elements combined” to me.

Minus that, dolphin buoy, shark snack…perhaps a little fearful…but indeed okay to go. 

No doubt you all have your tethers to your one good slip, keeps u from floating away; …

There’s little doubt we no longer have much of anything else:  like god, country, corps.

Well, perhaps we do still have God…but there’s a concept that is a far cry higher above our heads than the past centuries’ so-called word-o-god-purveyors have stood pundit for.  

[Preposition @ the end of a sentence?  It’s as rock & roll as a good double negative, yep.]

Here’s Cheers! to all of you & yours on this one o the few Summer Sundays left before the Fall.  Good thing we still have laughter, blood, sweat & tears to keep the hearthfires.

Please, somebody post a good joke for fcks sakes!

peaceQuake