Category: SAGE Story Telling Group

“The world is full of good people…if you can’t find one be one.” Facebook Meme. The primary definition of the word “compassion” that pops up is: sympathetic pity and concern for the suffering and misfortunes of others. I am sure

“The definition of insanity is doing the same fucking thing over and over again, and expecting shit to change. This. Is. Crazy.” Urban Dictionary Just for the record though I am never one to shy away from profanity what was

Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly And the dreams that you dream of Dreams really do come true Lyrics by Harburg and Arlen. 1939 It is the year 50AS (After Stonewall) or 2019 if you prefer the Gregorian calendar. By

Even now as I am only a couple weeks from my 70th birthday I wonder when I will ever grow up. Or perhaps it’s a matter of wondering when I will see the world as an adult is supposed too

I have had five siblings. Three are alive and two are deceased. The deceased are one sister and one brother. The brother died in very early infancy just a few hours I believe after his birth, his name was Terrance.

Once again a prompt phrase for Story Telling has stimulated in my mind song lyrics from, this time, the mid 1960’s. The song is “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” by the rock group the Animals a major hit

As someone who has enjoyed a fair amount of privilege in his life I would say that maybe the best privilege of all is being able to grow old. There is virtually no way I would be alive today if

I do realize there are many folks in this Story Telling group who are my senior and any whining I may engage in around this topic of “Fast and Slow” may appropriately be met with benign ennui at best or

These are two loaded words that conjure up all sorts of issues for me. Nightmares are something I seemed to have had more often years ago. An old, obsolete meaning of the “mare” part of nightmare referred to an evil

Thinking back on my life for this topic there are very few instances that come to mind where I felt I was in enough danger to be “scared out of my pants”. The main reason I think this is true