Ships and the Sea. Old things; antiques with stories behind them. Music, books, movies. Hymns and folksy spiritals. Scrimshaw. Old suits. Tobacco. Old chairs. Old pubs. Beer. Old tattoos. Pinups. Lying to strangers on the Bus. Blushing. Late night conversations. Confessionals. Old churches with the names of the fallen on the wall. Stories. Women. Faith, Hope, Love, Beauty in all forms. BEING HELD. Family. Innocence and the loss therof. Ireland. War movies. Handshakes. Silence. Honor, sacrifice.
Men and women who have fought for a lost cause. People who weep at the sight of a Van Gough. Ones who roll on the ground and kick their feet when they giggle. Myself when I was six. God... in time. I hope She's nice to me. You should meet all the people whose pictures are below. They are the finest human beings I know and they are all very precious to me.
The kind the goes perfectly with the situation and how you feel. I got lots.
It's Christmas, Charlie Brown!
The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Twighlight Zone, Reading Rainbow.
CASH, 9 Stories, Franny and Zooey, Catcher in the Rye, Happiness Is a Sad Song, Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, Blankets, Co. Aytch, Cold Mountian, Jar of Fools, The Stranger, The Dark Night Returns, Darcy Lever, The Illiad of Homer, To Kill A Mokingbird, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, Slaughterhouse V, Two Years Before The Mast, Psychotic Reactions and Carburator Dung, The Odessey, The Giving Tree, the Watchmen, Quartered Safe Out Here, Ernest Hemmingway's Collected Short Stories, The Cloister Walk, The King Canute Crowd, Doom Patrol.
My father, mother, my grandfather, my great grandfather, my great grandmother. People who make me laugh, my friends who know when not to give me advice and just listen. Friends who can be gentle and firm. John Donne, John R. Cash, Mr. Miagi, Atticus Finch, Lee Marvin, Edward Teach, Popeye, W.B. Yeats, Older Pete from the Adventures of Pete and Pete. BATMAN. Kim Carver. James Padraig McManus.