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EVERYBODY'S RIGHT

EVERYBODY'S RIGHT

Everybody's telling me just
how to make the grade
how I should behave
just what I should say

("Obey, OK?")

Everybody's sure that something's
goin' wrong with me
'cause I don't agree
with what I should be

(that's what they say)

You can have yourself a fight
but everybody's right
You can argue half the night
but everybody's right

whose corrective?
who's objective?
Oh, perspective's
so selective

Everybody's sweet and light
until you find the hitch
trips the same ol' switch
Throws 'em in a ditch!

(then how they'll bitch)

Everybody's bark and bite
but everybody's right
Everybody's so uptight
but everybody's right

say it's my fault
say it's my loss
say it till you're
mental floss

[NOTE: Today's lyric is from a song by Bill Brent. If you want to re-use any portion of this for public consumption, please ask for permission first from me, Bill Brent. Just send me an email via "Post A Comment" below. This is a moderated-comment blog, so your comment won't post publicly if it's not meant for public viewing.]

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.08.25, 2:25 p.m. Hawaii time]

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Why the Shaka is Better than the Wave

...'cuz when you're walking in Hawaii with a freshly gathered piece of fruit in your hand, it's a lot easier to acknowledge someone with a SHAKA than with a wave.

That happens a lot here.

In fact, it happened to me on my walk today.

An avocado and guava, in case you're curious about today's finds. No camera right now to show you the evidence, but trust me, they're choice.

[NOTE: Today's bit of artwork illustrating the "shaka," roughly the Hawaiian version of the hand wave, was kyped from another blog. (I was going to give an artist with a lovely image posted on the Web some free publicity and possibly some sales, but I would have needed her written permission to repost her image, and neither you nor I, gentle reader, have time for that.) So there's a dandy explanation of the shaka HERE. Whether the story is apocryphal or indeed true as claimed, I like the logic of my version anyhow.]

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.08.19, 8:35 p.m. Hawaii time]

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Real ID? Surreal ID? Sir Real ID?

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People in search of absolute solutions focus on the absolute and lose the solution.

--Bill Brent

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Bill Brent

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smart things I said in 2007 (part 5)

Most of us say smart things all the time. I just write mine down.

Whenever you can meet your goals and have fun while you are doing it, then you are living in Paradise.
    -- 5/22/2007

There is no sanity. There are only more or less comfortable flavors of crazy.
    -- 5/31/2007

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

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smart things I said in 2007 (part 4)

Most of us say smart things all the time. I just write mine down.

My problem with Goethe is that often his thinking is absolutist. You need to allow for the outliers. Outliers change the world.
    -- 5/5/2007

Insight decays into dogma.
    -- 5/5/2007

In a sinking capitalist system, the only way to float is to learn to discriminate reliably between a want and a need.
   Lack of discrimination leads toward ruin.
    -- 5/4/2007

"Evidence? The only evidence I need is my imagination."
    -- 5/4/2007

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.1.04, 12:50 p.m. Hawaii time]

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