JOHN RUBENS is no Mother Teresa.

From the commentary of Brian Lauritzen at Classical KUSC.

Source: Why Can’t I get the Wine I like Where I live?

#TWTR to @raftofwater: “You’ve been getting freebies son.” “Son? You’re young enough to be MY son.” “Depends how U count the years #oldman“

• “raftofwater billgates_s”

  @raftofwater Dear @billgates_s Depends how you count the years in order to define success (and as it turns out, our perceptions and definitions of the ‘years’ of which we live?).

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When I was young, I thought I was good, and like @ringostarrmusic said, I probably was for a #littleleaguer. Then they put up the ski buoys.

“We don’t like you.”

“UR loss.”

“We don’t think so, we’re hardly ever wrong.”

“Who are you, the CIA?” I watched the speaker but kept my peripheral vision on his partner who was staggered behind him close to the wall. #WhoRU? #TheWho see also #WhosNext.

We are on a conveyor belt to an endstop which may be a garbage dump.  Like the holocausted in Nazi concentration camps waiting in line to be cleansed by a shower, we needed a shower after that long, long train ride.

Kick ass #Stoli: “There can only be one in the long run.” #Champagne #Lowenbrau #Budweiser #FreedomFollowsExcellence

John Matthew Rubens added,

I like the fact that I’m so popular now as a member of The Commons 101. I’ve tried to stop some of the emails from Blogging 101 but I they keep coming (and I keep working, something I might not otherwise do, even in a California rain). I do find I write to more people via blogging 101. I kind of know what it must feel like to be a celebrity, politician or successful salesperson: every lead is attached to a person. I’m able to “touch” about 10% of the emails and like or post comments like this one to about half that many, the ones that incite me to write.

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I think he’s right.  He got it from an early saint like Augustine or Aquinas, anyway, he was a Franciscan Saint from the Thirteenth Century.

He said freedom is not anarchy, but a freedom to achieve one’s calling.  Like the journeyman that becomes the master builder deserves his drink after the toil of a “career”.

When the tests are over, one becomes a practicing lawyer (if the fees are paid, you don’t really need a client to practice, a practicing lawyer studies after all, even marketing).

When the practicing is over, one has the freedom to live freely in that zone, after all, it’s where the practicing lawyer or master builder live now.  Women are building with the saints too, did I mention Magdalene? “A kinder gentler nation.” George H.W. Bush.

How can we as an American nation founded upon war between men, do that without women?

Musings of John Rubens

January 5, 2016