Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.  And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
– Dr. Seuss, Oh, the places you’ll go!

Just as the good doctor says, only you can tell the places you’ll go.  This fall brings for me that event that almost every high school (the musical?) graduate loves or loathes: the 10 year high school reunion. Plans have been made, R’s have been SVP’d, and I’m not part of them.  But the thought of where we’ve all gone in the last 10 years got me thinking.

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my brother’s keeper

(or, damned to hell part II)

Ah, yes, Cain really had it come’n to him.  Having readily dispatched Abel for arguably poor reasons, Cain was getting ready to have his ass handed to him by the lord-someone’s-god. A voice from on high: “Hey, Abel, where’s your brother?”  Simple enough, but Cain had to be a smart ass in his response thus giving us the “Am I my brother’s keeper?” colloquialism which still lives on today.

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