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You can’t live in the city and expect that, while you are out & about, you will never have to endure Random Encounters with people at some point along your travels. Despite one’s best efforts, sooner or later someone is going to get themself in between where you were coming from and where you were headed… all any of us can do is Soldier through it.

As with everything else in life, these random encounters with my fellow humanoids are the equivalent of a human crap shoot… You just never know how the dice will fall. Some days you roll a 7 and some days you get snake eyes.

These pages Chronicle the delicious randomness of my attempts at minding my own business amongst my fellow riff raff on the streets and the running scorecard on how that’s working out for me.

Going To Hell In A School Bus

Dave - November 27, 2017

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One Last Goodbye

Dave - August 15, 2018

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Beach fireworks : An allegory for life

Dave - July 22, 2018

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City Buzzards

Dave - January 2, 2018

The waiting area at the bus stop was empty when I got there, and I had about 15 minutes to wait before the number 10 outbound would arrive. Like always, I tucked my cane and backpack under the shelter and settled in to watch the shitshow that was taking place about 30 ft straight in front of me. I had a flashback to my childhood and all of those Sunday nights that I spent watching "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom." I laughed out loud a little at how much this feeding frenzy reminded me of all those images I saw of buzzards fighting for a spot on a carcass. Watching those seagulls made me feel bad, all over again, for that poor water buffalo that had had the great misfortune of being at the back of the line when the stampede of fear kicked off.

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A Claus Confab

Dave - December 8, 2017

Whether it be fate, karma,destiny, divine intervention... or some combination of them all... maybe - just maybe - all any of us can do is just follow the path we find ourselves on regardless whether we were looking for it or just fell down face first in front of it.

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The COVID-19 School Of Higher Learning

Dave - March 27, 2020

It's fair to say that change is not always pleasant or welcome in life, especially when it is forced upon us - in many cases - against our will. There can be no greater example of this than the current COVID-19 pandemic and the tidal wave of...

I was born in the nation's capital and raised by people descended from nearly two centuries of Appalachian traditions, morals, values, and standards. And ways of surviving. In the last third of my life, with three Strokes under my belt, and a pocket full of "challenges" in tow, I remain insanely determined to be fiercely and willfully independent until I breathe my last and Swan Dive off this Mortal coil. Before that day gets here, I thought it was a fine idea the share my thoughts and observations about the world around me, such as it is, through the lens of my own life experience and - with our creators Divine Providence looking over my shoulder - the wisdom passed on to me by my ancestral elders. There will be moments ahead when I intentionally ignore the rules passed on to me regarding the use of Christian language. It'll be fine, you get used to the taste of soap if you work at it.