From Wikipedia -

stuff is a collection of junk or a group of items or matter.

My STUFF is diametrically opposed to your SHIT!

Ergo, if it belongs to you, it is negative - but if it belongs to me, it is positive. This principle was expounded upon by George Carlin, in his book - "Brain Droppings."

STUFF

© - Tom Hyland - 06-28-09


TO KAREN LYNN -

FIRSTLY - let me sincerely apologize - Why? -

In the 6 years I have been here, and all the reviews you have posted on my STUFF - I just realized that I don't remember ever even VISITING your site! This fact is not due to callousness, but rather to STUPIDITY on my part, and the standard EXCUSE of just being TOO BUSY! MEA CULPA!

SECONDLY - Writing is THERAPEUTIC - it helps in many ways, not least of which, is to help to organize one's THOUGHTS! Let's face it - each and every human being that is NOT a ROBOT has Feelings and Emotions - some UP, Postive, and Joyful - others DOWN, Negative, and Sorrowful - getting these emotions OUT of the head and ONTO paper or plastic (keyboard entries) - just like doing a TAPE DUMP or a TRASH EMPTYING - FREES UP SPACE in Memory for new STUFF to be received, or UPLOADED ... Make sense?

THIRDLY - I believe that almost everyone has good STORIES to tell - and let's face it - whether the genre is called: Poem, Story, Article, Blog, Saga, Tale, Epic, or any other non-descriptive description, like - STUFF ... we all enjoy SHARING!

Mankind, and WO-mankind - ALL - ultimately go back to the same DNA, or GENES, or CHROMOSONES - good ole ADAM N' EVE! Ergo, we are GREGARIOUS! We are SOCIAL Ani-MULES!

FOURTHLY - While some have been Gifted with great: Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Vocabulary, and other Language Skills - others were NOT so Gifted. But, they still have good STORIES to tell - so they should still TELL them! Someone else can do the 'gut-work' of Refining, or Editing - ain't that what EDITORS are really for? Reminds me of the old 'saw' - "Them that can't DO ... TEACH!"

I have a 59-year-old Niece who spent over 30 years of her life as a Registered Nurse - and BOY can she tell some WHOPPERS! And she has done some ‘journaling’ - I am constantly trying to get her to ‘capture’ some of her STUFF on paper, and I volunteered to do all the editing. It will surely make a GREAT BOOK! But - she sheepishly says: “I can’t write!”

FIFTHLY - In all due conscience, I must admit that I am one of the ones that tend to be very VERBOSE! Just ask Matlack! Second MEA CULPA! Some like it - some don't - as they used to say in the Russian Army - "TOUGH-GIE SHIT-SKI !!!"

To attempt to paraphrase Abe Lincoln -

"You can please SOME of the people SOME of of the time - and you can please ALL of the people SOME of the time - but you can't please ALL of the people ALL of the time!"

SIXTHLY - Regarding REVIEWS - my experience here, as well as several other previous sites, is that MORE people tend to read POEMS, rather than other 'STUFF' - simply because they are usually SHORTER and take up less TIME!

Now, if anyone would like to CHALLENGE this statement, be my guest - I WOULD CHALLENGE THEM TO FIND - GO AND READ - and then WRITE A REPORT ON -

"THE RHYME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER' ...
"Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink!'

and "THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE" -
"... all into the Valley of Death rode the Six Hundred ..."

SO - FA-GET-A-BOUT-IT ... Whoever reads Whatever, and takes time to comment However on Whatever ... is ultimately a very NICE PERSON - for Whichever reason we should all be Happily-ever-after indubitably GRATEFUL ...

Kind-a sort-a like-a ... the Opposite of ... "The Grateful Dead!"

SEVENTHLY - and FINALLY -
yet another MEA MAXIMA CULPA is needed here - what started out as an intended lil 'PEP-TALK' MUSHROOMED into an Article

- ERGO - all of this STUFF herein presented, is now being copied and pasted - and will shortly be posted on my 'HOGWASH CHANNEL' ... see STUFF !!!

PAL = Peace - Love - Abundance ...

yer Fiend (r omitted on purpose) - Tom Kat.

© - TKH