Lines on a Paper Napkin

These are my lines on a paper napkin.

Napkins are disposable. When no

longer useful, we discard them. We

too are useful and eventually go away.

However, descriptions of past places

and unusual and challenging events and

funny, risky, and tragic episodes are

flotsam that keep our essences in the

life current of succeeding generations.

This book coheres a riot of random

chatter from my life, a life not boring

or uninteresting, but a life pulsing with

adventures. An examined life full of

trials, trauma, fun, frolic, risk, sorrow,

silliness, great joy, and worth telling for

the inherent lessons. Eventually Ill forfeit

my being; however, by putting my lines in

a book, perhaps this life wont end up in a

waste bin so quickly.