Live From Kaitlyn
July 10, 2019
Good morning friends.
We didn’t care about the baseball All-Star Game anymore than you did, but it was funny the scoreboard showed wrong pictures and misspelled names. Unless it was your picture that was screwed up, of course. It’s academic, of course, because attendance is down and people don’t care about baseball anymore anyway.
At Wimbledon, the ladies have the day off, while it’s the men’s quarterfinals on Centre Court and Court 1. While the top three men’s seeds are playing today, three are seeded 20 or below and one is unseeded. Thrilling doubles action continues for all genders and gender combinations.
Our national debt as I write this is $22.4 trillion. and America has been at war for 10,795 consecutive days.
Significant birthdays on this date include William Blackstone (1723), Arlo Guthrie (1947), and Greg Kihn (1949).
Checking your horoscope for today, the SWAT team showing up at your house today should be regarded as an opportunity, not a threat.
Also from the almanac:
It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Heat: The highest official temperature ever is recorded on this date in 1913 at Death Valley, California, where the high was 134 F. A previous all-time high of 136 in Libya in 1934 was decertified in 2012.
Well, This Should Stop All Drug Use Forever And Ever: All illegal narcotics use ceased on this date when former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison following his conviction on assorted drug and racketeering charges. He served 17 years before extradited to France where he was convicted of money laundering and sentenced to seven years in prison. He was later extradited to Panama, where he died in 2017.
CHARTWATCH:
#1 songs on this date in 1971:
Hot 100 – It’s Too Late/I Feel the Earth Move…Carole King (4th of five weeks)
Soul Chart – Mr Big Stuff…Jean Knight (2nd of five weeks)
Country Chart – When You’re Hot You’re Hot…Jerry Reed (4th of five weeks)
UK Singles Chart – Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep, Cheep…Middle of the Road (3rd of five weeks)
Album Chart – Tapestry…Carole King (4th of 14 weeks)
– Chart data courtesy of Billboard (US) and Official Charts Company (UK).
PHILOSOPHY 101
Only when we begin to trust ourselves do we begin to live.
Goethe
Life is not lived on the sidelines. Us humans are meant to do things and each one of was cut out to do certain things. Those that get on in this world go out and do those things. Doing this every day leads to a succession of good days, which provides the foundation for good years and you rack up enough good years, the next thing you know you are looking back at, and forward to, a well-lived life. Those that don’t sometimes end up staring at time wasted and talents squandered.
Only when we begin to trust ourselves…
Trusting ourselves is not easy because the task of following the path laid out for us by nature – by definition a path no one else can possibly take – is difficult. It means deviating from the status quo and the expectations others, and perhaps ourselves, have for us. It means leaving the comfort of the familiar for the uncertainties of the unknown.
It’s a journey we must take, though. When we do, when we are following our hearts and trusting our instincts instead of ignoring them, we are living the life we were meant to live – life’s great prize.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German writer, scientist, lawyer, and statesman. His play Faust remains one of the most famous in human letters.
TODAY’S KAITLYN BOOK EXCERPT
From the Danielle short story from my novella The Benjamin Chronicles.
In today’s episode, Benjamin is about to seduce Danielle. Years earlier, he had dated Danielle’s mother Brenda, while simultaneously being seduced himself by Brenda’s mother Valerie and Valerie’s own mother, Joan.
“How much?” Benjamin asked.
Danielle was taken aback slightly. It was plain no one had ever offered her money in exchange for sex before.
After a few seconds it was equally obvious she wasn’t rejecting the matter out of hand, either. She was obviously considering it.
“A thousand dollars,” she said, as if she routinely issued quotes for access to her body.
“All right.”
The pair stood there for a couple of seconds.
“You have a thousand dollars on you?” Danielle asked.
Benjamin shook his head dismissively.
“No, not me, silly. You. You pay me a thousand dollars.”
“I pay you?” Danielle’s tone was incredulous.
“Yeah. You can afford it, plus you’re the one who’s half-dressed and wearing six-inch heels.”
They were standing between the bed and armoire. Benjamin reached out with an index finger and ran it from her chin, down her throat and between her large, firm tits. Then Benjamin took off his coat and started removing his tie.
“What makes you think I pay for sex?”
It runs in the family, that’s why.
Click here to read more from The Benjamin Chronicles.