September 10, 2013

2013.09.10
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman

Someone once told me that how we relate to our Parents is a lot like how we relate to God.
JT Waldman, in what might have been Harvey Pekar's final collaboration, "Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me".
I've been pondering on this statement a bit.
Always looking for that outside perspective, I was fascinated by the Quota on What facts about the United States do foreigners not believe until they come to America?
Hanging my collection of 20 or so 5x7" prints of people who are important to me, watching over a VHS to DVD transfer of my senior year high school "video yearbook", that one cover of the muppets' "I'm Going to Go Back There", and then wondering why I'm filled with bittersweet melancholy.