Learn persistence thru pests.

This song is dedicated to all of those who are tired of being pushed around.

Few people saw life as Ernest Hemingway did. A restless spirit drawn to the risk-takers and the courageous, Hemingway understood probably better than any writer man’s essential nature. Here are several quotations from Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea about growing old and being tough.

I do.

Long years of reflection and observation have produced these quotes.

Innocence does not measure a waiting city. It’s immaturity that veils the truth and reality.

Being inspired and pushing through inspite of hardships.

A musing on how a small difference and persistence can create change.

This poem is set to the tune of “I wish I was in Shore Bridge Now”, a chanty sung often at science fiction conventions and meetings of the Society for Creative Anachronism. This type of parody–science fiction or fantasy theme set to a familiar tune–is called “filk”. I’ve been writing filk for quite a while now; it is fun and is an opportunity to clean up fine, old tunes with a good rhythm with lyrics my grandchildren can enjoy.

Sometimes earning a paycheck requires a little private, personal pep talk with me, myself and I behind closed doors.