Live, Damnit!!!!!!

Uncle Jack's i.e., J-London's Birthday is WED!!!

Jack London said, "The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."


Also, I need to send a shot out to my brother Joe. Joe has long red hair, wears thick glasses, smokes cigarettes, drinks like he lives inside a fish bowl....Joe always has a smile plastered into the freckled dents of his face. He is the first to crack jokes in public--he is a perennial college student, writer, guitarist, dilletante poet....Joe received a full-college scholarship in gymnastic and Diving and ( oh, yeah) Joe scraps around campus on crutches. Joe lost his right leg to bone cancer when he was nine....all this and he still can do a back flip off a hi-dive with one foot or "his tail" as he calls it....

Joe's making plans to go down to Tennesse. His ambition is to be the first ambutee to traverse the Appalatian trail. Try telling me that he won't succeed.

ATTA boy Joe!!! Maybe its just the girls I date, but I'm tired of always hearing people bitch about petty material driven commodities. Never once have I heard Joe grouse about his leg--not once in the two years I have known him have I ever seen anything less than a smile and a stately nod.

Thanks JOE!!!!!

Your antics inspire me to, in the words of the late Amanda Davis, "Write like my life depended on it!!!!!"