Comments on: Lurching to Oblivion

By: JHF

JHF — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:22:52 +0000

Gina! Great to hear from you, and thank you so much for your generous words all the way from Bawlamer…

Come back again, and just wait until I get the posts organized on this blog: there’s a lot more you might want to read if you could only find it!

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:34:03 +0000

You are blessed, in so many ways. Not the least of it is in the way you manage to see what you love so clearly — fresh and new and present before you, as exhibited by that last paragraph. Beautiful. I hope to inspire and have that one day again, too. xo

By: John Lay

John Lay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:24:02 +0000

As usual, I have to talk about the financial stuff…. Believe it or not, Term Life Insurance IS the good stuff, if you have discipline. You have to pay more for cash value insurance. If you’d been taking that extra and sticking it into a plain old bank savings account, or savings bonds or just about anything safe, you’d have about twice as much at cash in time as you would from the insurance company. They pay squat for interest.

So, however you invested the extra money (Arkansas farm land, good mood altering substances, whatever) you’re probably better of than you would have been with an “old style” cash value policy.

By: JHF

JHF — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:37:14 +0000

Hoo HAH! Well, there’s something else I haven’t done, myself.

So many choices, so little time…

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:33:12 +0000

wow this unleashed a wild flash of memory for me. I once spent a day in a storage unit in Taos with a bottle of tequila and the heartbroken blues, which had mutated into the “mean reds” (to borrow from Mr. Capote). It was cool and dry and there were some loud voices in my head that day. When I left the storage unit (politely escorted by Taos’ finest, I wasn’t bothering anyone but it was against the rules) I was dragging behind me one of those black suitcases with wheels, in the pouring rain. Perhaps Taos inspires that type of magical thinking. It seemed like a logical choice to me at the time…. Thank you for reminding me of how grateful I am that that no longer seems like a logical choice.

By: JHF

JHF — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:30:59 +0000

Against the rules, of course, and I guess that’s why they lock the place up at 7:00 p.m. every night. The fellow I saw may be sleeping elsewhere in this good weather. Never saw it before, myself.

Hey, didja see that tweet about $25K for Detroit “homesteaders”?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:25:35 +0000

Living in a storage facility is nothing new. I saw it myself a few times. Always sad. Of course, but for the grace of… whatever… there to I go