“ The world's supply of heartache is secure. There's love and hate and mayhem everywhere. ”
I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young, with the same longing, look ahead. One man remembers what the other imagines.
~ Thomas Lynch
Once she even successfully argued on behalf of my older brother, Dan, getting a BBGun, a weapon which he promptly turned against his younger siblings, outfitting us in helmet and leather jacket and instructing us to run across Eaton Park while he practiced his marksmanship. Today he is a colonel in the army and the rest of us are gun-shy.
The realization that God could be female required the consideration that the Devil could be also.
The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.
