And On This Farm He Had A Blog

@indigo To me, they were an escape. I started reading very early - By age two. I loved that I could open one and suddenly be somewhere else for a while.

As for the older books as opposed to the newer..

The older seemed to have a life imbued to them from the hands that made this dog ear or that crease,

The McGuffey readers, for instance, were used in school by my great grandfather and had his notes and scribbles in them. It just made them seem alive to me.

Some other's were made by my great, great uncle Leotis and had his very ornate, almost calligraphic, handwriting in them. Some of his sketches, also. (I have a few of his paintings too. Very talented man. Would have loved to know him but he died a few years before I was born)

// @jextxadore

@jextxadore It has a nasty habit of both eliminating woes and introducing others in their place.

After this tumbler of bourbon, I will attempt sleep.

Where did this energy come from and why wasn't it present when I needed it this week?

@jextxadore Don't get me wrong. If there is money to be made, I will make it. I only view it as a means to do other, more important things. That and make Sidekick's life easier if I should suddenly keel over,

It isn't something that invokes passion in me.

@jextxadore I'm not a very fiscally driven person outside of the business I run. Never have been driven by money.

@jextxadore Oh, no. I do not sell those sorts of things. I value those sorts of things far more the money they are worth.

@jextxadore These are just things I stumbled across at estate sales and the like. I started collecting the stuff in my teens. From pre-school on, I was a voracious reader.

@jextxadore Also have an anthology from the 1880s that featured bawdy poems and stories from ancient Rome. Their sense of humor was on the level of your average eight year old.

@jextxadore I'm hoping they are in decent shape. They are at my Mother's house many hundreds of miles away. Whey are kept, sealed, and in a dry environment that almost never varies from 60 degrees F.

Insomnia and inexplicable burst of energy, meet whiskey.

I'm not playing around anymore.