Audio (MP3): 20160821 - A passel of piggy picking up

I’ve never been in a hog processing plant. When I lived in Iowa I knew people who had though. Knew people who worked the second and third shifts. Knew people who worked on the kill floor. Work comes up in conversation as it does now and then and every once in a while I’d hear stories.

If a story provokes me hard enough I’ll form a complicated, detailed mental playhouse of it. And it’ll stick like glue, turn into an everlasting memory that my imagination makes all too real. It’ll become part of my story. Follow me around like gum on my shoe. For life.

I often accidentally think of the hogs in whatever warehouse room they’re herded into before they actually got to the kill floor. Again, I’ve never been in such a place but I get sucked into the dirty, gritty gum when the hogs beckon.

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When stolen lived here she and I both had our own parking spots in front of the house. Nothing formal, just spots we had fallen into parking.

It became common for me to glance out the kitchen window and see The Cube in her spot. There was a reassurance when I would see it, know that she was here.

Other times I would unintentionally look out the window to see if she was home yet from work.

After she moved out and my eyes wandered to that kitchen window, I’d feel a tug at my heart strings seeing that void, that empty spot.

Over the last few days I’ve started parking where she once did because that’s the better spot. I’m still getting used to seeing my truck there because it feels unnatural.

But it’s a shift into that new normal.

#confessional

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Deluxe Edition - Amazon Video

FEATURING PARTS 1 AND 2 OF “BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS” SAGA! From the chronicles of the DC Universe comes the sweeping saga of rebirth, revenge and redemption.

Speaking of Batman, you should really watch this if you haven’t already. The adaptation is quite good and the graphic novel changed comics as we know them.

I only wish that I hadn’t let my original 1986 issue fall into such despair. 😢

#movies #comics #batman

Bill Finger Finally Gets A Credit For The First Batman Comic

What makes this issue really significant, however, is that to my knowledge, it’s the first time Batman’s co-creator, Bill Finger, has received a cover credit for the original Batman story.

Finger is, of course, the writer of the earliest Batman comics, whose contributions to the creation of the Dark Knight include the costume and color scheme, the origin story, the lack of superpowers, the words “Batmobile” and “Gotham City,” Robin, the Joker, and numerous other elements. Unfortunately, due to some legal trickery by his collaborator and actual supervillain Bob Kane, Finger’s never been officially identified with a “Batman created by” credit in any published works or films or other Batman media.

Somehow I missed this in my internet travels of 2014.

I had always believed that Kane was the sole force behind Batman. Okay, so maybe Batman was his initial idea but the “created by” part is misleading. Much of what makes Batman who he is is his story, his parents being shot, him being a vigilante and so on. Those things fall into the creation bucket as far as I’m concerned.

Bob Kane was one of my heroes and this took him down a few notches in my book.

Funny how everyone is human after all.

Another related read: 5 Ways Batman’s TRUE Creator Got Screwed Out Of His Legacy

#comics #batman

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I can’t help but be in love with Catwoman.

#confessional #art #catwoman

I don’t know how many blueberries I just ate but it was ALOT. 🤕

#photos #blueberries #thestruggleisreal

I think I just had my own close encounter of the third kind. 🤔

#videos #closeencounters

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
— Step 11 of Alcoholics Anonymous

It’s important to me to improve. When I was drinking I was just unhappily stuck and often times would go backward. When I seek to improve that contact with the cosmic spirit, I change. I grow. I become more than what I am.

We all know this. Again, “it’s nothing new.”

But…there’s more. I was talking to a friend recently and she was telling me of her recent Buddhist meditation session. One of the topics was that the cosmic spirit is also expanding. God, the holy ghost, whatever sticker you wanna put on it — this force is also growing and becoming more.

That was a pretty cool thought. With all the negativity in the world it’s reassuring to believe, to know that the cosmos is also improving, widening, deepening.

It’s a good feeling to be connected to that. To contribute, to be part of that greater good.

#advancedsoul #lettherebehope #twelvesteps

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