Mephistos

If you are at all familiar with you you know the whole of that quote is “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten,”  which is the title of a book and a fount of wisdom by Robert Fulghum.   I have always felt a little slighted by such a book title, as where I grew up there was not a county/state school system kindergarten and it did not become a required thing until some number of years after I started school.  I have always joked, knowing the basic contents of the book, that it is no wonder I don’t like to share and am not good at playing well with others – as I didn’t attend kindergarten.

I had a realization this morning as I attended church, which was the first time in a long time for such an occurrence mind you.  My realization was that the kind of things that were being taught in kindergarten Read more…

Currently I am sitting in front of a tavern in downtown Lexington, historic old court house across the street, blues music riffing through the outside speaking, enjoying a bourbon, dog at my feet.  Life is good if not for being so hot.  Of course, I might not be so hot if I had not just come from a swing dance.  I had no idea how hard that would be for me nor how much energy it would use over the a couple of hours.

This was something that had been planned for a bit as it is something that I want to do and it is also something I know that some other people I know enjoy on a regular basis.  Actually they are apparently a bit of regular with it at this place up around D.C. that is pretty much a historic site straight out of the 30′s or 40′s itself.  How awesomely cool would that be? Read more…