HOGG HEAVEN

For me...Harleyfest was more about the people than the bikes. 

But the bikes are what brought the people here...so it's all good. 

I had the most amazing time...

and I can't wait for next year!!!!

Raising in the Son.

My Father (rest his soul) was always at me when I was a little kid about walking around on my 'tippie-toes'. 

Like it was something shameful, or 'girly'. 

The guy went mental over it!  

WTF???

(it 'aint rocket science; the guy had issues with himself, and it alleviated the pressure somehow to take it out on us.)
 

The HELL with that, I say! 

I'm GLAD I walked about on tippie toes!! I reckon that's why I have nice strong legs; especially the calf muscles! 


He also had some issue with munching ice, mushing up my ice cream, not standing up straight...

Not touching my dick in public...

Man, this guy was a rule crazy nut bar!!


OK...here's my point;

Just say 'NO' to childhood conditioning!


& let your kids do their thing!

I'm not saying give them a fifth of sour-mash and the keys to the sedan so they can cruise Martin Luther Bvd looking for the shit..I'm just saying...

Let them be who they NEED to be!


Who they KNOW they are!!
 

'Don't answer back'?? 

Pigs ring.

Why not???

Are you really right all the time?

Is ANY ADULT?

We don't know a helluva lot more than they do about the world!  and what we do know?

That has sent us down a river of shit that THE KIDS are going to have to clean up after us!

If your song is 'I believe the children are our future'...then put your money where your trap is and cut 'em some slack!

Arguing back?

The sprogs may have a point!!

Let them KNOW you might be wrong!

Why not?

Are you afraid it's gonna' come back and bite you on the arse later on down the track?

Well then...that's about YOU- not THEM.

You care about them?  Admit your human frailty. 

They will thank you for it anon- and you will take pride in their staunch unwillingness to swallow any old bullshit that comes down the pike. 

Like we have. 

UNLESS you had children to prove some kind of point, or work out your own frustrations with your bad choices and shitty moves.

In which case...you shouldn't even have kids.
 

Give 'em a break! 

Trust their intuition!

Teach THEM to trust their intuition!!

"Do what I say, not what I do?"

Bogus.

"Don't this, don't that..."

What are you trying to do...raise Stormtroopers?

Fuck that for a joke!

We don't NEED no more stinking zombies!!!!


And adults?

You want to be healthy grown ups?

Be more like a child!

You remember how it went; it's wasn't all THAT long ago!! (man...life 'aint ever that long for anybody!)

If you want to dance the merengue, run with scissors, pick your nose, leave your elbows on the table or make farts in church...

Then you DO IT!!


No one has any right to tell you otherwise. 

You can do anything you want to do.


Just promise me you will be HAPPY.

Be Not Afraid. Be VERY not afraid...

Don't be afraid to talk or write about yourself and how you think and feel about things. 

Narcissistic?? 

No way.  Not at all. 

Anyone who tells you it is can blow it out their furry butthole. 

In fact- if anything- I want to hear more about you and your life. 

I'd love it. 

Who else do you know more about?? 

Who else are you more qualified to write about?? 

So go ahead; let 'er rip.


(ps: I'd rather hear about you than that Cyrus floosey.)

POSITIVE I ON.

Kind supportive words are nice...but rare.  

So don't get addicted to them...or you will yearn for nothing else.  

& you will DIE yearning.  


Look at positive feedback as an occasional treat.  

You can't live on ice cream...even though you may want to.

Even if it WERE always there.

Everyone knows a child should not have EVERYTHING they want.

& we are all basically children.


Thoughtful people, genuine, encouraging sentiments pop up every once in a while.  

But you can always count on nastiness.  

Not sure why that is;  it just is. 


Negative?

Possibly.  

But I am who I am, and this is my truth as I see it.  

If you want someone else's truth...


Off you go. 


I'm sorry...but I'm not one for the 'laws of attraction'.  

'The Secret' my spotty arse.  


I like the TRUTH.

Not your truth, his truth, her truth...but MINE.

It has taken a lot of time and effort to come into it.

I think it...

I say it.  

& what I said today?  

Still holds good tomorrow. 


I'm not saying I'm immovable...but at my age?

I have a pretty good sense of who I am, what I have observed, and what I believe based on those observations.  


'Nice' people die of cancer.  

Yes they do.  

If you have proof to the contrary?  Of course I will hear you out. 


But in my view?
   
Good people DON'T always prosper.

& pricks live forever.

'Positive Thinking'??

I'm not sure positive thinking is sustainable.  


What about the negative?

I think the NEGATIVE things are POSITIVE!

'Good' and 'bad' are ALL part of the sweet deal of life!


So where do I fit, Anthony 'boofhead' Robbins????


I'll tell you where I fit.  

I can make a positive out of a negative.  

This renders both words meaningless.

So often...in the past...

I would take the negativity of others personally. 

Positively wounded by it.  

I'm older now.  

& a LOT tougher.  

I thrive on bad karma.  

I walk under ladders, and step on the cracks.  

I laugh in the face of death, and bare my bum toward God. 


& the fear, loathing and hatred of my enemies?

Energy food to me.  

GUTS

And for all those people who hate your guts??

Fuck 'em.  

At least you've shown them you HAVE guts.


Gutless people hate that.