{"id":147343,"date":"2025-02-27T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=147343"},"modified":"2025-02-26T18:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:39:22","slug":"the-view-from-the-balcony-notes-in-my-phone-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-view-from-the-balcony-notes-in-my-phone-x\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From The Balcony: “Notes in My Phone X”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Okay, y\u2019all. It\u2019s time for another installment of \u201cNotes in My Phone,\u201d my chronicles of interesting things I\u2019ve heard people say or have read. As always, I give no context to the notes with rare exception. You provide the context. Most names of those I\u2019ve quoted have been omitted to protect the guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romance at Dollar General \u2022 I\u2019ve been down that road myself. \u2022 My bowels are exactly where they\u2019re supposed to be. \u2022 I am multi-dysfunctional. \u2022 You can\u2019t run away from yourself. You go wherever you go. (Gunsmoke) \u2022 Unexpectedly erotic \u2022 Saved with an edge \u2022 My pronoun is \u201cHis highness, sir.\u201d \u2022 The talking stick show \u2022 Coats are for shoplifting. \u2022 Put him in a corner but don\u2019t put him in a box. \u2022 The bifurcation of conversation \u2022 \u201cMy attention span is shorter than a goldfish.\u201d (Jerry Wexler) \u2022 I ain\u2019t prayin\u2019 for that. \u2022 Measure once, cuss twice. \u2022 \u201cThe beginning is easy. The hard part is the ending.\u201d (Slim Pickens, How the West was Won) \u2022 \u201cYou\u2019ve got to have a great mind and a tender heart.\u201d (Andrew Young at Jimmy Carter\u2019s funeral) \u2022 \u201cHappiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.\u201d (Robert Frost) \u2022 Ugly don\u2019t age. \u2022 I\u2019m not in favor of much. \u2022 It\u2019s worth staying alive just to see what I do. \u2022 \u201cThe word \u2018listen\u2019 contains the same letters as the word \u2018silent\u2019.\u201d (Alfred Brendel) \u2022 Kindness is free. \u2022 I am a community-minded anarchist. \u2022 \u201cThe older you get the more questions you don\u2019t have answers to.\u201d (Chuck Conners as Lucas McCain in The Rifleman) \u2022 It might be black and white now, but eventually you\u2019ll see in the gray\u2014maybe even in color. \u2022 Bathtub conversations \u2022 Grief is seldom pretty. \u2022 I had a feeling I was not the only one. \u2022 I had a \u201cyou\u201d moment. \u2022 Seeing the world through the bottom of a glass \u2022 What happens in one world echoes in another. \u2022 The tangential mind \u2022 I\u2019m not a pizza. \u2022 I am the entity. \u2022 A lot can come up from shutting up and listening. \u2022 She was a bitch hound from the 18th dimension of hell. \u2022 It wasn\u2019t fatal, but he ended up dying anyway. \u2022 I don\u2019t normally drink, but when I do drink I don\u2019t drink normally. \u2022 Nothing is permanent. Bad times and good times are the same in that both will pass. \u2022 Too close together and too far apart \u2022 There doesn\u2019t always have to be a direction. Sometimes it\u2019s good to ride in the mud. \u2022 He pubertied all over me. \u2022 The race to become humble \u2022 The heart is black. \u2022 The Universe is gonna kick me in the ass. \u2022 I am a f**king work of art. \u2022 Idiocracy \u2022 Stakes couldn\u2019t be higher. Steaks couldn\u2019t be higher either. \u2022 I\u2019m going on a wig hunt. \u2022 Poll dancing \u2022 \u201cShootings are a fact of life.\u201d (Vice President J. D. Vance) \u2022 I was designed to be loved. \u2022 It\u2019s hard to feel good about anything when you\u2019re drowning. \u2022 Braking news \u2022 Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. \u2022 The magic doesn\u2019t just happen. (Coonie)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 and that\u2019s the View from The Balcony<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randy Weeks is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Board Certified Telemental Health Provider, Certified Shamanic Life Coach, ordained minister, singer-songwriter, actor, and writer. He is a lover of puns, oxymorons, paradoxes, alliteration, juxtapositions, metaphors, and the like.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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