PS: This is for the good times

I can see how being up here all winter, when you can't be outside because it is so cold and cloudy can make a person get cabin feever or depressed. I am ready to be able to get home from work and have it be light outside and 80 degrees. The inability to enjoy the outdoors is hard on me - I am an active person and staying inside all night is sometimes tough. Tonight it was a little bit that way.

There is a guy at work named Dan who I just met today. He hasn't been in in awhile. A funny kind of guy, quirky and a love for talking with people. Just a good ol' boy. I bet in a past life he was from Oklahoma. :) Anyway, he was telling me that people think he is not too smart, but that he has a motto, from the movie Song of the South (which is no longer availabel because of political correctness issues). He says this:

"Briar bear and briar fox - they think I'm dumb.

But they don't know me -

they don't know I grew up in the briar patch."

Einstein has met his match.

Pray that God doesn't let me lose strength to be a light in the darkness that is up here.

"If you still can hear me singin'

to the people who don't listen

to the things that I am sayin'

prayin' someones gonna hear?

I guess I'll die explainin' how

the things that they complain about

are things they could be changin'

hopin' someones gonna care?

I was born a loneley singer

and I'm bound to die the same

but I've got to feed the hunger in my soul.

If I never have a nickel

I will never die ashamed

Cause I won't believe that no one wants to know."

I ain't sayin I beat the devil, but I drank his beer for nothin' - then I stole his song.

joshua holland