Sunday Squibs

 

Retired people are like the lymphatic system in the body. They go unnoticed till they cease their hidden functions. 

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The spam telemarketers are annoying, but on the positive side, they’ve eliminated the pesky door-to-door salesman. 

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I hate when shows go meta. I only watch the damn things to escape for an hour from my overly meta life. 

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Life is a mountain. Some people’s mountains have chairlifts, others, abominable snowmen. 

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Thirteen billion years since the Big Bang. Four or five billion since the earth came to be… Is it any wonder so many of us opt for living in the present moment?

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In retirement I often think of death. When I was working I thought mostly about lunch or the weekend. 

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We need to be happy to be healthful. Bacon makes me happy. But bacon is unhealthful.  

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Property in the old, decrepit river towns is dirt cheap. In a hundred years it will be crazy desirable. Buy up all you can and your great, great grandchildren will bless your memory. 

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Even the world’s best listener needs to get an occasional word in edgewise just to assure the monologuist that they’re not a painted backdrop. 

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Trivia is not trivial. Rather, it's the finely grained foundation of all knowledge.