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I have done this and that, but that one time in my life that I DID something important, it was simply just being “there”. I was there for my family. Dad was agitated and reluctant to relax; he was perhaps nearing the end of a 2 year re-occurance with cancer. He was calling for the priest (who had already visited and given Dad his last rites a few days ago). I didn't know what to say and how to calm him.....we held him; we were in the bedroom……………..............Mom was helping in her own way; she was leading him on various Catholic prayers. The hospice nurse had instructed me to open this plain white box, dig out this dropper and give a drop or two that was intended to calm; to allow peace and rest. The hospice nurse told me to give Dad this morphine drop and it would allow him to calm down, to be at peace……………….. I would have never traded any place, item or situation in place of this, knowing that we were here to help, calm and just be there….. He refused twice, and replied that the hospice nurse said it would calm and the drop would help. Dad told me that he didn’t want any more.......I told him to "trust me”. Ten minutes later he peacefully passed laying our arms.....................................................I think he watches over us now......................................................... ............................................................ .Utah Phillips said: never own too many of anything that requires paint or needs to be fed. And “Too many conservative Christians, not enough lions.”........................"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain....................................................... ............................................................ ....................................................Dad used to make Santa Fe's best margarita (as told to Mom by then Govenor of New Mexico Carothers).................................................. ............................................................ ............................................................ ................ "Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist," Thompson told The Associated Press in 2003. "You have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it."........................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ .........A word to the wise is infuriating. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........Call on God, but row away from the rocks. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. HST......................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ........ I predict that by the time I am old as fuck, we will be on Mars. Our cars will move along computerized magnetic motorways, fossil fuels will be a thing of the past (except natuaral gas), we will still recycle and (re) harvest plastics burried deep in old landfills) and currency will exist much the same way the internet does now.
Worst Car Crash Test Ever Compilation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTqF0wPKso