This can be controlled. This is where the power rests, waiting for that moment under the glare of center stage.
THE DIOGENES MOMENT
“I am looking for a man. I am looking for an honest man!”
“I am the great I am. I can grant you whatever you wish. What is your desire?”
” Can you please get out of my light.”
Dennis Mantin
It’s not the lies we tell one another that are the tell; it’s the lies that we tell ourselves and believe them that are the tell for those that have an intuition for a con.
Bullshit does not baffle brains to those that are aware and are not taken in by emotional embellishments.
“How will I recognize Fear?”
“It talks very loud and it talks very fast.”
Dennis Mantin
Most of our problems according to the late great Joseph Campbell stem from our FEAR of dying.
Once you accept this inevitable fact and realize that there’s nothing you can do about it, then you are at the beginning of dealing with this UNREASONABLE FEAR.
I fear pain. This is a reasonable fear.
I know the evil that mankind is capable of because I know me.
I am witnessing a dishonestly at a world level that I could never have imagined or predicted and the fear mongering that exists on the world wide web is appearing unstoppable.
Dennis Mantin
I was familiar with the darkness of the human heart long before I called Toronto home.
It’s not that I didn’t buy the victim tears or the aw go shucks all apologies smiles…I just have intuition for a con… The con is part of the human condition much in the way breathing is or being shy.
One of the gifs of being shy is you develop exceptional observational skills.
A man blames women for his inability to get laid and kills 10 strangers in a rental van.
A gay man who dresses as Santa Claus and works with plants and flowers is a serial killer of other gay men, cutting up their bodies and burying them in planters.
Smiles and kind soft words aren’t doing it for moi.
Dennis Mantin
J.K. said, ” If you don’t have your health, you have nothing. ”
His yellow stained fingers trembled the long ash from his cigarette to the tray. He was in his eighties and maintaining a 40 of rum a day habit.
This is a man who would know.
Dennis Mantin
2 seperate 6 year olds have drawn my portrait… They don’t know each other and the similarities are quite remarkable!
I have connected and that ship has sailed… it’s been nice, however I feel about this the same way I felt about Mash and Barney Miller in my youth…
This is it? I’m sitting around wasting my time and life, waiting for the next episode of this?. Fuck that! I am disconnecting.
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Dennis Mantin
10 years to go before retirement… God be willing!
I’ve been blessed for 20 plus years to work at a job I don’t loathe.
The first 20 were the tough ones.
Eddie Langille was right as I set out from the farm… ” Remember, the first million is the most difficult.”
Dennis Mantin
The wise one told me that I was an ego maniac with low self-esteem…
He said, “You have to make a decision about whether or not you want to grow up. ”
“How do I do this?” I asked.
“You must learn to fac
e your fears. ”
“What will my fears look like, sound like?”
“They will talk very loud and very fast. ”
“What weapons can I use to defeat fear?”
“You just say no. ”
“When will it end?” I wondered out loud.
“When you hear the pop sound.” He smiled.
“What’s the pop sound?” I knew I’d regret asking…
“The sound of your head coming out of your ass.”
He always had a smile that started at his eyes.
It was long ago and we were younger then and much quicker to la
ugh.
Dennis Mantin
I heard from Caitlin that you’re returning.
“Oh joy, oh blessed be!”
You’ll descend upon our space with your barriers of rope and black curtains, ghettoising we the public from your genius.
I already have a bias from Cohen… ” I don’t like your fashion business MISTER. I don’t like what happened to my SISTER. First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”
“Followed by Toronto Yorkville Village ?”
Have you not received the memo?
1 Lose the minimum wage security guards. 2 Drop the barriers. 3 Include the curious wholefoods shoppers and public who you are displaced by your mere presence. 4 Create a walk through for the public to see what’s happening that includes my 6 years old daughter who is interested and curious and who would give your event the honest appraisals and cred you seek and desperately need… possibly. 5 Grow up. 6 Visit Sick Kids Hospital with your event. 7 Stop taking yourselves so seriously.
8 Or don’t.
P.S. I like it here.
Dennis Mantin
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