"No reason to get excited" The thief, he kindly spoke --Bob DylanMark’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The world keeps turning and time slips past. Recently The Harborside Inn on Block Island, where I worked for a bit 44 years ago, burned, and it is now in the process of being torn down. I won’t see it again. In the spring of 1979 Dick Sheridan and I wallpapered each and every room of that hotel. Dick is probably gone now, too. He was sixty-something years old then and I lost track of him in 1984. I didn’t recognize the owner’s name when it was reported on the news, though in 1979 it was owned by Alan and Sharon Pratt. Time marches along. A few days ago, while unpacking a box of old papers I came upon a black and white photo I took of Marsha using Tri-X in an Olympus SLR. In it she is sitting on the steps of an antique store in Allston, in 1982. She is beautiful and behind her you can see up Harvard Ave, looking toward Brookline. I haven’t seen her in nearly four decades and I have not forgotten her. I drove past that corner a few weeks ago and very little is the same. Nothing is permanent. Everything is always in motion and always changing. Living with time, I have come to understand, is like being hit by a big wave while body surfing. It is best to not fight it, to just let go and allow myself to be swept along.
Someday, a book that contains a collection of your observations and explanations may be just as significant as "1984" or "Animal Farm" has been for our generation.
For decades, public schools have provided students with a "Students' Rights and Responsibilities Handbook" hoping to establish some framework for the conduct of the students. I am not sure that has been a resounding success.
As you explain, the concept of "rights" has been so twisted and abused that the original meaning is lost. Society today wants unlimited rights with no responsibilities, and a leftist government is all too eager to take advantage of that social norm.
Well they are trying their hardest to put anyone who thinks they have rights in their place. I believe the goal is to take weapons away little by little like the frog in the pot. So you are probably 100% correct that at some point the younger people will rise again.
Someday, a book that contains a collection of your observations and explanations may be just as significant as "1984" or "Animal Farm" has been for our generation.
For decades, public schools have provided students with a "Students' Rights and Responsibilities Handbook" hoping to establish some framework for the conduct of the students. I am not sure that has been a resounding success.
As you explain, the concept of "rights" has been so twisted and abused that the original meaning is lost. Society today wants unlimited rights with no responsibilities, and a leftist government is all too eager to take advantage of that social norm.
Well they are trying their hardest to put anyone who thinks they have rights in their place. I believe the goal is to take weapons away little by little like the frog in the pot. So you are probably 100% correct that at some point the younger people will rise again.