Common Sense

An Updated Catalog for this Coming Election

• Worshiping the demons of ancestors is easier than coming up against the living ones.

• Reverence is a choice. Safety can be a religion.

• Sometimes even when it’s not personal, it is intentional.

• No one sees the world the way I want them to, no matter how pretty my words are.

• Virtue signaling is alive and cruel.

• My pain is my own. Yours is hurtful.

• Out is never the easy way.

• Sometimes silence is golden. Sometimes it’ll choke you. 

• The middle ground gets sucked into the sinkhole first.

• Some people never learn, especially when we don’t agree.

• Your news is rarely good.

• Allies and enemies, friends and family. It’s elementary but complicated.

• Real life is better than the screen no matter how skilled the selfie.

• True friends remain transient. Even me.

• A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but a body ain’t great to watch fade away either. 

• True love never dies, but it sure does get old and fart a lot. Him too.

• Questioning is responsible. Righteousness is deadly.

• Love is optional. Relationships are not.

• Thoughtful children and tired dogs are a job well done. 

• Sleeping is easy. Except at night. 

• Depression whispers into the crook of my neck, but I’m growing deafer by the minute.

• Dogs are good. Except when they bite.

• People bite. Except when they’re good. Or the other way around?

• Keep going. Do not stop. Value rest above all things. At least until it gets boring.

• Expect. Change. Accept. Change. Amend. Respect. Edit. Repeat.

• Every day is new. But so is each night.

• To live is human. Death begs divination.

• We are born on top of a magic carpet feather into a timeline we can neither steer nor hop off.

• Keep your eyes sharp. The best we get is to see out many windows as our life flies by.