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    “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things:  Of shoes and ships-and sealing wax- Of cabbages-and kings- And why the sea is boiling hot- and whether pigs have wings.”  -Lewis Carroll.

    …down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished or afraid.  He must be a complete man and a common man, and yet an unusual man.  He must be a man of honor- by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it.  He must be the best man in in his world and a good enough man for any world.  He has a range of awareness that startles you but it belongs to him by right, because it belongs to the world he lives in.  If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in.-  Raymond Chandler.

    I am that man.  A man whose past is shrouded in mystery.  Whose future is unlimited by sanity.  Whose present is unconstrained by normalcy.  I am the Right Reverend Angus McIntosh, founder of the Temple of the Circus Monkey.  And I will lead the revolution. I started this blog as a useful way to categorize earlier writings and give my overly busy head something constructive to do.  I have opinions on everything from politics to religion, philosophy, pop culture, current events,  and god only know what else.  I am a Reverend, and I believe that I do interpret the word of God, or the Universe, or the Great Whatever.  Complete ignorance of a topic won’t keep me from expounding on it with great authority. A brief explanation of the name.  Behind every great oak tree is a nut that stood it’s ground.  However, you have to avoid the squirrels!  And there are a fuck of a LOT of squirrels that would like to eat your nuts to keep you from taking root and standing up.  If I have to explain the metaphor, stop reading this and go watch a sitcom.  Your mind has rotted. So now you’ve been warned.  Enter my spiritual world at your own risk.

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9/12/2018

Kindness...

It’s time. Some of the more aware among you may have noticed that the blog disappeared as of late. It did. Totally my fault, kind of. LOL. The ugly divorce monster showed up at my house and I lost my beloved wife of 29 years. She went a little crazy but we don’t need to discuss that now. The point is that the blog has risen, phoenix like, from the ashes. I’m back and going to be posting regularly again. Hurray!




So what do I write about on this momentous occasion? How about kindness? How about how terribly we tend to treat each other? Especially in relationships. Face it, it’s true. From giant fights to tiny emotional digs we are all frequently terrible to the people we supposedly love the most. And this makes me profoundly sad.




When one goes through a divorce it tends to change you. For many people they become jaded and bitter. For me it’s had the opposite effect. I’m more caring, more sensitive than I was before. Now I can’t help but notice how flat out mean many of you are. Why?




I think the basic answer is selfishness. We want everything exactly our way every time. Guess what? Most of the crap you fight about is irrelevant. Calm the fuck down. You and the crappy little things you want don’t fucking matter. But meanness does. Let’s have a little perspective, people. Be nicer. Especially you women. But more on that later.




I’m a positive person. I CHOOSE to believe that most people are kind most of the time. So why don’t our relationships represent this kindness? Maybe we can all work on this. It can’t hurt. Saor Alba, Vaya con Dios and Viva la Revolucion.
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