Keeping the torch lit.

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Keeping the torch lit.

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It’s been said that life is what happens while you’re making...shots. Or something. Well now I’ve taken a few. First of my name, last from the bar.

Over the past few years I’ve flipped a little faster through the flip book of my life, and now after filling in so many pages, it sits folded open, ready for more wrinkled pictures to ornament the pages. So I poured a bourbon, and started thinking about how to keep the torch lit when the book starts getting heavy on the left side, instead of the right.

What is the torch?

On the surface it’s a drink; on a deeper level it’s your giant laser beam into the sky of nothingness. It’s a way to assert that you were here. When I take that glass out and tip the bottle upside down, that’s my way of aiming the mirror up. And so even though I now check off every box of adulthood it’s also my way of asserting that I am the same lost, questioning tippler I’ve always been.

Each of us has to make ourselves, continually. This brown bottle lights the way as I continue to invent in the cave.
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Shot Time wrote:
Fri Sep 25, 2020 2:40 pm
... aiming the mirror up. And so even though I now check off every box of adulthood it’s also my way of asserting that I am the same lost, questioning tippler I’ve always been.

Each of us has to make ourselves, continually. This brown bottle lights the way as I continue to invent in the cave.
That deserves a drink. All I have is Evan Williams, but it'll do for tonight's bourbon. Cheers



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FUCKIN AMEN BROTHER!!! PREACH!!
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Beautiful. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us drunkards. Sláinte!
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That is really good, but then most real drinkers are philosophers

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Ivan Albright made a wonderfully accurate oil painting, that which may haunt me though the remainder of my days.

Heavy the oar to him who is tired, heavy the coat, heavy the sea. The title itself is a poem.

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/9535/hea ... vy-the-sea
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Badfellow wrote:
Thu May 27, 2021 9:36 pm
Ivan Albright made a wonderfully accurate oil painting, that which may haunt me though the remainder of my days.

Heavy the oar to him who is tired, heavy the coat, heavy the sea. The title itself is a poem.

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/9535/hea ... vy-the-sea
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^^^ Let`s pretend that`s a gaint wineskin in his left hand
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I need that painting for my bathroom.

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Life is what happens while you are snookered, happy and drunk. My best times are inebriated, ?With family and friends. Currently there on on vacay. undrunk breaths are not in order. Planning on making memories for a lifetime. Lasering a line to the salt with me and mine, If I can make a mark on the ocean, well then I have truly made my mark.
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I find that my torch burns brightest and longest with bourbon or 151 as the igniter.
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I like this post, it's inspirado.
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