NAPKIN WORDS #93 2011 - Dedicated to my Brother-In-Law Mike Prevor

1. ART LIFE
Venus di Milo smiles from within.

Mona Lisa smiles from without.

Each life smile should combine these two
great qualities!

2. SHINING
Each blue sky is brightened by the sun above,
and the hopes from below.

Clouds may dim the appearance for a number of
days. They are just clouds.

Each blue sky will again be brightened by the sun
above and hopes from below!

3. LEAVING YOUR MARK
Writing by itself, does not make anyone wiser.

All it does is leave evidence that we had thoughts.

One has left something that could be discovered,
and judged, by those who arrived later and read
what was written.

They will be the judge of what we wrote, and they
will decide, was it wise or not!

4. BOYS AND GIRLS OF ANOTHER TIME
One of the many fears of young men and women
entering High School in the 50’s, these same kids
who were going through the rough seas of puberty
and its insanity, is that they became acutely aware
that their parents were often treating them as if
they were entering public school and were simply
children who would do what they were told. They
lived the Ozzie and Harriet life portrayed on that
new media called television.

That of course led to the 60’s and the 70’s, rock
and roll, drugs, gangs, “Don’t trust anyone over
thirty,” and the simple, hard working people sent
a different type of American kid to war, this time
in Viet Nam.

Now those 1950 types of parent are about to retire
at a time of a great recession with wars in Iraq,
Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, a huge and vastly wide
variety of unemployment numbers for both the
educated with degrees and those without, the rise
of a powerful and wealthy China, and now we
spend our fading and mostly borrowed wealth on
sports, entertainment and scandal.

Weinergate is another sign that we are now
composed of many in congress that titillate, but
waste us, these great United States of America,
waste us away. What happened? Where was it
that we lost our way? History will have answers!

FAME

What passes, is just
as important as what
might arrive.

Acknowledging that
difference between
intelligence and ignorance.

Better to view a star
than to be one.

Better to love silence,
than to be praised by noise.


by Edward Hunter