Holy
socks with “flip-flops” will never be “in fashion.” But Used Crap Stores don’t
sell “pre-owned” socks, and we are all too poor for new.
Cheap
solution: gather thy holy socks, even thy holiest of holies. From Grandma, Great Uncle, or anyone old and wise, beg a steel “needle” and a roll of tiny rope (“thread”),
of any color. Darn them! Like this: http://www.lonelysock.com/Mending.html
Not
new, but not none. The surgically enhanced may mix with the unholy—no sock need
be ashamed. Stand fashionably thrifty and proud, even in flip-flops.
%$#@!
Humans,
being fallible, should never be quite certain of anything.
%$#@!
Don’t
shop until you must.
%$#@!
Whoever
dies with the most toys has lost the game.
%$#@!
In
nothing trust.
“…we
have after all within ourselves what we need.”
Daisetz
Teitaro Suzuki (1870-1966), Essays in Zen
Buddhism, p. 73
%$#@!
To honor the war dead,
including the women, children, and
babies:
bring all soldiers home, and dismantle the killing machines.
“Let’s face it; what we
call the “war on terror” is really just another oil war…. The only winners have
been the military contractors and oil companies that have pocketed historic
profits, the intelligence agencies that have grown exponentially in power and
influence to the detriment of our freedoms, and the jihadists who invariably
used our interventions as their most effective recruiting tool. We have
compromised our values, butchered our own youth, killed hundreds of thousands
of innocent people, subverted our idealism, and squandered our national
treasures, in fruitless and costly adventures abroad. In the process, we have
helped our worst enemies and turned America, once the world’s beacon of
freedom, into a national security surveillance state and an international moral
pariah.”
Robert F, Kennedy Jr.
From a brief history of our mid-east blunders, http://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-arabs-dont-want-us-in-syria-mideast-conflict-oil-intervention/
