Tag Archives: maturity

Lose Your “Authentic” Self

It feels like not that many years ago there was an interest, almost a “movement” if you will, to seek out and embrace our “authenticity”, to “get real” with ourselves and our world, and cut through all the game-playing to get back to the essentials of human living. Continue reading

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High School Reunion Musical

Someone told me once we never grow beyond the point we turn the age eighteen: what insecurities we carried then still manifest themselves throughout our lives. That makes those speeches every June (you know the ones that say life’s just … Continue reading

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With an Unarmed Foe

You call those claws? Withdraw those nubs, and come back when your talons grow; I have no time to make retort against the feeble likes of you. You say the world agrees with you? Well, that just proves the world … Continue reading

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Here is the Crossroads

Here is the crossroads where you finally know you’re too old to say you’ll die young. It’s early summer; fall’s on the horizon. Your spring has most definitely sprung. It’s not about giving up on your wild days, but some … Continue reading

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‘Til I Die

Maybe I’m a dreamer, but I sure don’t want to be one of those two old guys sitting in the balcony: a grizzled, bitter muppet who makes fun of everything and never gets up off his ass, and on the … Continue reading

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The World is a Small Town

Don’t want much, but that’s all right Nothing much happens here on Saturday night Get laid, get drunk, get in a fight Maybe all three Maybe at the same time Don’t need nothing, but that’s OK Nothing much here to … Continue reading

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If You’re Not Growing

Some of my old friends seem the same year after year: just like they were in high school, at the start of their careers They talk in careful circles around where they ought to be; and most of them still … Continue reading

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