{"id":144441,"date":"2024-10-31T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=144441"},"modified":"2024-10-31T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:00:32","slug":"the-view-from-the-balcony-notes-in-my-phone-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-view-from-the-balcony-notes-in-my-phone-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From The Balcony: “Notes in My Phone IX”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Notes in my phone is a collection of attention-grabbing words, phrases, and comments I\u2019ve heard or read, mostly on The Balcony. I give no context to them. You decide what they might mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would rather eat a bowl of live spiders. \u2022 The tree remembers, the axe forgets. I am the queen of assumptions. \u2022 Your key has a spot in my secret drawer. \u2022 History doesn\u2019t repeat itself but it often rhymes. (General H. R. McMaster) \u2022 The mystery is the beauty. The beauty is the mystery. \u2022 Gonna have to get me some ice cleats for this Mississippi winter. \u2022 See me no more. \u2022 \u201cSchool shootings are a fact of life.\u201d (J.D. Vance) \u2022 \u201cSchool shootings are a fact of death.\u201d (Me) \u2022 He\u2019s the kind of person who could tell a story and you didn\u2019t know if it was true or not, but you liked it so much you didn\u2019t care. \u2022 Dark winds \u2022 It\u2019s a bad time for being sad. \u2022 Why are your ankles so puffy? \u2022 The Count of Monte Crisco. \u2022 Boonanza \u2022 I had chicken tenders in my pockets. \u2022 I had one, but I lost it. \u2022 If you want it to come out right pull it straight. \u2022 I looked at you and said, \u201cNo,\u201d but you did it anyway. \u2022 I must be late. Everyone else was going home. \u2022 Peons. Pee-ons. \u2022 \u201cEven graveyards grow flowers.\u201d (Miller\u2019s Girl [movie]) \u2022 Happiness is a stone\u2019s throw away, but the stone is heavy. \u2022 I was chased by a lobster when I was three years old. \u2022 Hope is a thing with Mexican feathers. \u2022 She drank her genius out of her mind. \u2022 You burnt my latte! \u2022 I\u2019m going to land softly. \u2022 Ambisextrious \u2022 The difference between meditation and dissociation is consent. \u2022 Amish hipsters \u2022 By the time the getcha they\u2019ve already gotcha. \u2022 A serial killing sloth makes for many a slow death. \u2022 Your hair looks like a turd on the side of your head. \u2022 \u201cIt\u2019s not too difficult to convict an innocent person. It\u2019s impossible to get them out (of jail). (John Grisham) \u2022 Patience is the companion of wisdom. (Gunsmoke) \u2022 She was grazed by a bullet in her head. \u2022 A delicate turning of the fans \u2022 Quarantine Barbie \u2022 We travel full-time and like locust we go to a city and we eat. Everything is there. Then we leave. \u2022 What\u2019s wrong with fair and free erections? \u2022 How do you send a ball of butter halfway across the country? \u2022 Honey, if you want me to disagree with you less, try being right more. \u2022 I could eat some mac & cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026and that\u2019s the View from The Balcony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randy Weeks is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Shamanic Life Coach, an ordained minister, singer-songwriter, actor, and writer. He loves word play but can\u2019t stand bad grammar. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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