if I entrust you
w/holding on to it all,
I can’t let you go

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• December 11, 2009, Frank writes: You take my breath away sometimes. This one gave me a real chill (the wonderful kind) when I read it. Thank you.
• December 11, 2009, howard writes: thanks, Frank. maybe it's really just a variation on "if i tell you then i'll have to kill you." or something like that ;)
• December 11, 2009, howard writes: thanks, Frank. maybe it's really just a variation on "if i tell you then i'll have to kill you." or something like that ;)
• December 12, 2009, Frank writes: Oh, my, that's an entirely different take. I was going with the Love Everlasting one.
• December 12, 2009, howard writes: i'm just kidding with that. but maybe they're just a matter of degree from each other, though -- from indispensable to unacceptable.
  
  or maybe, to put it into political speak: too important to fail?

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• March 31, 2009, Mikaelah writes: if a person did not believe in dysfunction -(I know ...HUGE if...) would a struggle be possible - or what appears to be a struggle be simply - how life unfolds. ?
• March 31, 2009, howard writes: I certainly believe it's how we grow. Which doesn't seem to ever happen without some sense of discomfort, either as motivation or a part of the changing/growth process.

Tangentially-related Update: Evidence that a certain demagogue may need better fact-checkers:

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There’s no shortage reasons why I divested myself from the Republican party years ago. For most of the time since, I have been a man without a party. I just have a hard time subjugating my independent thought process to any party machine. And though the idiocy on the right is often amplified by the voices of people like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, etc., I’m no more willing to surrender my mind to left wing party lines.

One recent, glaring example of idiocy is the series of episodes involving elected Republican officials who (at least initially) had the guts to call out a particular non-elected talk radio host. While it’s obvious Rush Limbaugh doesn’t even take himself that seriously, we have an entire major American political party on the brink of surrendering their agenda to him completely. Or so it would seem, given the way some of these elected officials have scurried to apologize to a glorified shock jock.

I voted (and volunteered) for President Obama, but I still saw the very real cult of personality in the way some people mindlessly followed him — with no rational understanding of why they followed. But I don’t know if that comes close to being as stupid as creating a similar cult in pursuit of a radio entertainer.

Somewhere in the mountain of commentary about this situation, I heard someone compare the GOP to “a rudderless ship.” I couldn’t agree more, but beyond that, this seems like just one more piece of evidence that the U.S. two-party system is a willfully dysfunctional mechanism. And maybe that’s the real rudderless vessel.

image: kelnishi

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• September 25, 2008, Shelley writes: Hang in there, man. And thanks for sharing this.
• September 27, 2008, howard writes: Thanks, Shel. I was just roaming the ranks of the shutterbugs on Flickr and I saw this picture. Then the words started coming.
• November 17, 2008, fast cash writes: ongoing Wall Street bailout debacle and explains to us how something as mundain as accounting rules could be dramatically affecting US financial markets
• February 23, 2009, Rambo writes: Hi,
  
  Very nice one dear.
  
  Rambo
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