A Hawaiian Highway at night, Bonnie Tyler singing Vampire Rock Opera, there is a time in everyone's life when they hold all of life in their hands like a basketball.
When I think of heaven, or even just of the bar I want to spend time in, the bar of eternity, I think of the stable where five or six medieval writers sat around getting drunk. That's where I want to go.
You start out a little worm without scales, claws or teeth; then as soon as you are aware of yourself you start making plans for who you want to be; then in the middle you realize you failed and are not what you want to be at all; then in the end you realize you really did become more or less what that 15-year-old panned to become, and you think: Why is this kid dictating to me who to be?
Does a bug have the same rights as a proud early flying high? Is the life of Hitler as valuable as that of Jesus. I had to hink about this recently.
31 min
About My Very Last Life
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Eric T. Hansen – also known as Grumpy Old Writer – looks back upon his 60 years gone before and forward to the last 20 yet to come ...
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