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..even bad things end ....May 31, 2008
All good things must come to an end. Like most people, my entire life has been one good thing ending after another. It is the way of things. But I never would have thought that bad things can also end. Which is why the termination of this site is so surprising. Who would have imagined that something this bad could ever end?I dedicate all that I have done here to my friend, The Silverback. It was his idea and design. He maintained it. But for The Silverback, this site would not have existed. Thank you, David.
Next, I bow to Ochiya. She has taught me many small and wondrous things; among them, that I am capable of being understood.
I thank those whom I love, whether acutely or chronically. You know who you are.
And, finally, I acknowledge the following:
My dead father and my living siblings
Denise and Bud
Betty Gaiennie
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Bullwinkle
Flannery O'Connor
Pete Maravich
Warren Zevon
My best friend, Jeff
Elliott Longstreet
Henri Matisse
Shelby Foote
Dave Barry
Mad Magazine
Jackson Browne
The National Lampoon
Kingsley Amis
Peter Mark Roget
Jennifer Connelly
Cartographers
Schrodinger's cat
J. S. Bach
Siddhartha Gautama
Male cardinals
Stringed instruments
2007 National Champion LSU Football team
Albert Einstein
The musical score of the movie Glory
The Deefers
Jonathan Winters
William Strunk
Abraham Lincoln
Steve Earle
Fermentation
Good manners
Shakespeare's sonnet # 73
Ron Popeil
Joni Mitchell
Girlfriends, class of '74
The Swamp Fox
Johnny Carson
Atticus Finch
Stephen Colbert
Chet Baker's version of My Funny Valentine
The newspaper
David Sedaris
Musical harmonies
Sullivan Ballou's letter to his wife, July 14, 1861And to all who have read these entries---in particular, those who were kind and encouraging---thank you.
--Beastmaster
May 31, 2008
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