One of George Carlin's famous comedy shticks, great performance poetry.
{It just naturally fell into quatrains when I texted from his performance}
There is this partial near the beginning:
"....... That's all you need in life, a little place for your stuff.
That's all your house is, a place to keep your stuff.
If you didn't have so much stuff, you wouldn't need a house.
You could just walk around all the time.
A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it.
You can see that when you're taking off in an airplane.
You look down, you see everybody's got a little pile of stuff.
All the little piles of stuff.
And when you leave your house, you gotta lock it up.
Wouldn't want somebody to come by and take some of your stuff.
They always take the good stuff.
They never bother with the crap you're saving.
All they want is the shiny stuff.
That's what your house is, a place to keep your stuff
while you go out and get... more stuff!
Sometimes you gotta move, gotta get a bigger house.
Why? No room for your stuff anymore." ......
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"Gotta get a bigger boat !"
Wish I was CommanderPete, I'd post a photo here of a sail-around-all-the-
time cruiser with a huge jungle jim of shiny cruising stuff hanging all over
it, chrome pipe, dodger, bimini and bikini kinds of stuff...
Stuff you gotta have for modern voyaging.
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Today, littlegull's cabin top and deck gets her first coat of Epifanes MU 3125.
The namby gray of KiwiGrip$$$, will be rolleed in islands on top of that.
Picked the monourethane from a cloud of color chips, thinking it had a touch
of gray, but it's called Alpine White. Deck, cabin, cockpit and probably the
sunbrella will be shades of white and gray. No plan really. Staying away
from beige and blue. Down below, light blues, the lightest red (not pastel
faded with white which becomes pink) if it can mixed. Perhaps Epi MU
cream on the cabinets with saten frosted mahogany, but that's a way off,
I'll be almost home on the boat by then!!
Experiment with Interlux Flattening Agent for One-Part Finishes. One part
urethanes, enamels, varnish, It's added to the final coat. 1to1 produces a
satin-gloss, with high as 3parts to 1part paint producing matte. Epifanes
doesn't do color satins. We have to mix huge quantities of this agent into
the paint. Doesn't seem kopacetic. Into an already fully realized product!
Tip came inhouse, likely Epifanes, through my vendor: SMSDistributorsInc.
Just that much closer to sailing around all the time.
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LATER EDIT 3 unpardonable quotes for 2017:
For if there is a sin against life,
it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life
as in hoping for another life
and eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend,
Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day. Albert Camus
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman
For the young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger,
to be too preoccupied with himself
-- but for the ageing person,
it is a duty and necessity to devote serious attention to himself. Carl Jung
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HERE'S TO TIME FLYING
3/22/17, Joanne (Miss Kids) Kyger dies. Poet emerged 60 years ago from
the 'male dominated Beat Generation'. But not beat -- a force since, in so
many lives. Surrounding herself with poets, painters, cats and intellectuals
-- an informal zenBuddhista, she may have made nirvana, an old skeptic
won't know. In terms of life after death it means, if you don't make it you
aren't lost, you can always come back again to the human univers for
another shot. Her life now locks into her writings. Hugh loss for us.
She's on her way and won't be back.
email: "Thu 12/22/2016. Best wishes for the Holidays. Hello Ebbe, Here
below is {an imasge of} the Himalayan Deodar you gave me for my front
garden over 40 years ago.
Here's to time flying.
And sending you good wishes.
for the coming year.
[5-7-5] Just don't read the news. xxx Joanne. JOANNE AND DONALD"
Indeed... Here's to time flying... to Joanne, to Donald, to her little
home on the Bolinas Mesa... the big ole cedar in the front garden...
my tears are clouds of words I'm unable to say
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