Ten Minute Missive

Yesterday I had thought I would write up some simply hysterical little blog post chronicling my totally insane day, but like most things, time changes everything.  As in, no way I want to relive yesterday even for the sake of making you laugh.  Also, I read my dear Twitter friend Tawna Fenske’s blog this morning and I just couldn’t help but let it inspire me.  Besides, just how interesting is my normal day anyway?  Yeah, I thought so.

So first off, I want to pose this:  what is real?  I remember my philosophy professor, David Boersema of Pacific University Oregon, laughing at my frustration when he posed such things in good ole Intro to Philosophy.  I am not the most philosophical of folks without the introduction of alcohol or other agents (I’m a regular hoot on morphine, OMG) so discussions on reality were not my favorite back in the undergraduate days of my youth.  Of course, now that I’ve found the wonderous properties of a good cabernet sauvignon, I’m much more likely to enjoy pondering what the hell is real.  But I still am fond of how Margery Williams said it, “Real isn’t how you are made…”

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