Common Sense

An Updated Catalog for the 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.

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