June 2009
3 posts
A letter to my father
Dear dad,
I’m sorry that I haven’t spoken to you in so long, even sorrier that I haven’t come to visit. I’ve even been in El Paso more than a few times, and didn’t come to visit. I know, it’ll be 12 years, come the end of August, but the pain is still fresh and it’s been hard to work through.
Even so, I need to thank you for raising me to be the man I...
My bucket list, subject to (destined for?) change
Write, perform, and record my own album (doesn’t have to be under any label)
Own a house for my family Bought a house in October
Tour Europe on a EuroRail pass
Visit Iceland
Learn to program for the iPhone
Write, produce, and direct a movie
Write a book
Get my tattoo finished (long story) and get the other two tattoos that I want
Build a wearable computer
Get a Master’s...
Memorize me...
If
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:...