Is "abandoned cemetery" convoluted?

WLEM AM

Where we beg to differ.



What chains bind you?

WLEM AM

Where the skies are not cloudy all day.

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Were you a wild child, or did you usually follow the rules?

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Where gentlemen don't ask and ladies never tell.



O Canada. Ever been? I have been twice, just over the border at Niagara Falls. The second time, in my early forties, I was at the concession window at the camp I was at. Without thinking, I asked the lady could I use an American stamp to mail a postcard? She said no, and I replied, somewhat bemused, 'but we're so close to the border...' and immediately realized how stupid I sounded.

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Where the sidewalk ends.



Who loves bluegrass?

WLEM AM

Where the rubber meets the road.

    

Ever been to Hawaii? I was stationed there awhile, and I wonder if I'll ever return.

I was surprised to learn recently that cruise lines go to Hawaii. Of course, the majority of time is spent on board during the voyage to and fro, but I always thought, even before the advent of cruise-mania, it would be neat to go by ship.

Is this not a lovely song?

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Where we play it as it lays.



What's the deal, my dears?

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Where it's always a balmy 84 degrees.



If you had a raincoat with four sleeves, which movie star would you share it with?

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Where tacking back and forth, we eventually get there.

The fortune taped to my laptop says 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' Does anyone else have a fortune taped to their computer? Or keep one in their purse or wallet?

WLEM AM

Where everything's gonna be fine, fine, fine.

For me, this song a personal anthem. Is there a song that especially speaks to you?

WLEM AM

Where winning is the only thing.

This is a beautiful song about gratitude. Has anyone heard of gratitude journals? They are especially useful for negative people, as they teach one to look around during the day to think what three simple things they'll list in their journals that night. 

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Where the wild things are.

What do you say?

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Where we make up to break up.

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Ella Enchanted

Moms and dads of a certain age, what is your favorite kids' movie or feature-length cartoon you used to watch with your children...over and over again. Mine is Don Bluth's Thumbelina.

WLEM AM

Where love means never having to say you're sorry.

If someone calls you a clown, what should you call them back?

WLEM AM

Where eclecticism meets good taste.

Good morning, fellow Lemuelites. Anyone been watching the McConaughey/Harrelson program, True Detective? It shows on Sunday nights, and is rather good. Thoughts?

Guest Posts Welcome

Yesterday. in my "I like This Idea for a Post This Morning" (still going strong today) I asked yous guys (a little Trooper lingo there) to suggest topics, that may have gone "neglected", for us to post, discuss, chew over, kick around etc... And, the never disappointing, always obliging, Bagoh20, (Bags, as I call him) shared something I thought I make into a "guest post".

I think something that is very important to a huge number of real people, yet is rarely covered is the subject of opportunity. How can people young and old find, develop, and exploit opportunities to succeed, grow, and build things outside of the standard and over-used one of go to school, go to more school, succeed at school, and then when you are already grown up, go figure out how to make a living by talking someone into hiring you to do what THEY want you to do.

It's not a plan for happiness or self-fulfillment for many people. It's a path based on maintaining the security of doing what you are supposed to for as long as you can pull it off. It's avoiding risk, avoiding challenge, and missing your calling as an individual. It delays for as long as possible your contributing to the people around you, which is how you become self-sufficient - by people needing your work.

The only place I see this stuff addressed is in the work of Mike Rowe. We need more discussion about how people can become valuable assets to their community through self-development that starts out very quickly paying off, and keeps building that throughout a life.

Our education system is a shambles of narrow political experimentation and pet projects of a few philosophies which are antagonistic toward diversity and unconcerned with results. They are experiments insistent on proving their hypothesis with no interest in real results for individuals. Failure is ignored and success is manufactured, and failure is what a great many are getting.

We need more discussion, exploration and experimentation with teaching trades, commerce, business building, how to work in a way where you parlay your minor successes into big ones over a lifetime.

Many immigrants are learning these things, and leaving natives behind in the area of personal development and growth because they arrive without the standard plan as an option, blocking their view of their real opportunities. The reason that immigrants take so many jobs is that they take the damned job. Then, they run with it, advance, start businesses. They don't see their parents' couch as the only alternative to college or a cushy job.

Many millionaires and highly successful, self-actualized individuals and families living great lives owe little or nothing to the standard plan.

I'm not against education - I still work on it every day for myself - but the way it is being done and sold is mostly a scam - a high end version of the stuff sold on late night TV as get-rich-quick lies. They take your money, waste you valuable time, and in the end, leave you to your own devices anyway, but wounded and broke.

That's a lot of rant against what isn't working, but I see the successful people all around me, including myself, and many found a different ways, which people don't really see anymore. They are there. They should be better known.

Thanks Bags. This post also gave me the opportunity to plum the tags bar. (mix metaphors, too late)