Old Sweeney never learned to fake sincerity and never saw it for the curse it was…

” You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. ” He’d snort. As if anyone were listening.

He always blamed his lack of diplomacy

on his unabridged honesty and died believing that.

Dennis Mantin

Enough!

It’s time for story about others…

Their fears and cheers and beers and tears…

Just remember no one gets out alive…

YET!

Dennis Mantin

I waited for her in front of the school. I could see another child on the bus trying to comfort her… She didn’t see me yet and was crying. The new school is not going over well.

I met her for lunch today and she said ” I’m already used to it, I just don’t like it here. It doesn’t feel right to my spirit and if something isn’t right with my spirit then I am going to be angry. You know this is a Catholic school? I love God and I love Jesus but I am not Catholic…”

Dennis Mantin

I don’t get bored and I really don’t know why.

Wayne says boredom is attached to ego but wtf does he know? Ok Ok let’s entertain this notion that Wayne knows what he’s talking about…

I remember a time when boredom ruled and in this realm, all sorts of crap went wrong. I drank too much, did too many drugs and got myself in questionable situations with others who were probably equally bored.

Now I am not interested or don’t care… not really sure. Maybe it was the pains of youth.

I just know I feel much better than before.

Dennis Mantin

Hero with a 1000 faces. Ancient, old and grey. Nothing new under the sun. It just looks that way.

Hero with a thousand voices. Sounds an ancient past. It’s just that no one’s listening and that one cannot last.

It’s raining and its ugly and its stained with its mark. Its dancing between droplets and whistles in the dark.

Hero with a 1000 choices, or sorry was that just 1. I’d love to stay and chat but you know I gotsta run.

Dennis Mantin

On a day my 6 year old girl asked me this question, her mother stated the following; in the form of a question:

” You know I’ve worked my ass off for the past 3 years? ”

I didn’t say, you’ve just returned from a 40 days vacation in France which was preceded by a 35 days vacation the previous year and 37 the year before that…

No, I just walked away to ponder why my girl would still be thinking about why Ace dropped the trash panda a year after she saw the movie.

I told her it wasn’t his choice; that sometimes we have to let go of things in order to save ourselves.

Dennis Mantin

Suffering comfort in the lap of luxury; living off of the fat of the land in the land of milk and honey… good bordering on great! Its the best of times…

I’ve heard it said, ” When you have no money food is the problem… when you have money, relationships are the problem, when you have both, health is the problem. ”

I guess the bottom line is none of us is getting out alive… So what’s the solution if not spiritual?

Dennis Mantin

She said, ” That’s the advantage of being old as dirt… you know everything! ”

Of course she was talking about herself.

” Ya hear that Millennials? Always something to look forward to!! ”

Dennis Mantin

And so it begins, with 1 front tooth gone and the other rising to join it, when you are so vibrant and present and gloriously beautiful… I need you to know that I adore you and feel privileged to be your friend and father.

Dennis Mantin

Kevin said, ” She does a good job of holding her ground. ” He would know as he was her teacher.

I am learning to let go… to stop trying to control. I secretly hope I am at least partly responsible for her ability to hold her ground.

” She’s a force in her own life, that’s for sure. ”

I am a proud father of my daughter.

Dennis Mantin