Power is a measure of the capacity to cope with our lack of control and in wielding our power to take control

My house built in the 1920s still has a TV antenna like a tattoo you got in early mid… with which you’ve come to have

At bottom God is a brute fact and Satan a brutal fact

Power is the ability To maintain your non-negotiables And the world to come Will arrive when we stop trying To negotiate a new deal with God

We are gathered around our phones Like little campfires And all we ever hear Are scary stories

A wedding ring is a mood ring that never changes color reminding us that a husband should always feel

God’s strength belongs to me Because I belong to God Which is to say God’s strength belongs to us Because we belong to God

The modernist thesis– You’ll know it when you see it The post—modernist antithesis— I can’t believe my own eyes Our current and nameless synthesis…

I hope to live several decades more making it odd to know so very well what they’ll put

If: “The unconscious is structured lik… Then: The ego is structured like a trans… of that language into the mother t…

My ambivalence was born When those I depended on for prot… Wielded protection as a threat Whenever I became a threat Nothing threatens God

When Eddie Money said “I’ve got two tickets to paradise” he didn’t mention that the paradise sales team only sells tickets in pairs

After years of therapy the stump came to see that there was an I, two even, in the giving tree

I am not who I think I am I am not who you think I am And I am not even who I think you… I am who I-Am-Who-I-Am thinks I…

Like Coke for Coca-Cola, Mr. Pibb is short for Mr. Pibb, ABD