Morning Briefing
July 13, 2019
Notes from around our human experience, including Philosophy 101, On This Date and an excerpt from one of my books.
PHILOSOPHY 101
Life is being on the wire. Everything else is just waiting.
Rick Wallenda
Every now and then life presents challenges, events that take us out of our norms and our comfort zones, putting us in a situation we’ve seldom, perhaps never, encountered. Invariably, this will be a circumstance where our very best is demanded, seemingly drawing on every skill and talent – and sometimes emotion – in our personal arsenal.
Life being life, this can be a challenge that came up suddenly from seemingly out of nowhere, or it can be a challenge we’ve spent an awful lot of time preparing for. It could be a moment where firmness with our children will produce dividends that will pay off for them many more times in their life, or it can be a challenge at work that must be met or it can be stepping on the field or court to officiate a ballgame that is as important to the players as it is to you.
What it is is of no particular consequence; it can be anything. What matters is that we have them from time to time in our life. Because when we have them we are generally showing ourselves and the world that we are trying to better ourselves, to do something we haven’t done or be someone we haven’t been. Because if we are not trying to be something better than we’ve been in the past then we are not making our time on this planet serve us, we are merely serving a sentence.
What wires are waiting in your life? When they appear will you have the courage to walk them, risking the acquaintance of the imposters known as success and failure, or will you take a pass, while others walk on theirs?
We cannot answer that question for you and you can’t answer it for us, but the answer determines whether we will ultimately be looking back at a life where we did well or a life where time was squandered.
Rick Wallenda is an American high wire artist.
Running The Numbers
Our national debt as I write this is $22.489 trillion. and America has been at war for 10,798 consecutive days.
“There Is Tape In The Oval Office”
Alexander Butterfield, a former deputy assistant to President Nixon and then head of the FAA, reveals in Congressional testimony the existence of a taping system in the White House on this date in 1973. Butterfield knew about it because he had overseen its installation for the president. Butterfield had no role in the Watergate break-in or its coverup. Butterfield was also one of the few to correctly guess the identity of (in)famous Watergate informant Deep Throat as Mark Felt.
Maybe Some People Got Fed, Maybe Some People Bought Guns
Live Aid, a dual-venue, multi-artist concert held to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief, is held in Philadelphia and London on this date in 1985. It is estimated that 1.9 billion people, about 40% of the planet’s population at the time, aw at least a portion of the concert. Phil Collins was the only artist to perform at both venues and it is still not entirely clear how much money went to relief and how much was siphoned off by Ethiopian leaders.
CHARTWATCH
#1 songs on this date in 1974:
Hot 100 – Rock Your Baby…George McCrae (1rd of three consecutive weeks)
Soul Chart – Rock You Baby…George McCrae (2nd and final week)
Country Chart – He Thinks I Still Care…Anne Murray (2nd and final week)
UK Singles Chart – She…Charles Aznavour (3rd of four weeks)
Album Chart – Caribou…Elton John (1st of four weeks)
– Chart data courtesy of Billboard (US) and Official Charts Company (UK).
TODAY’S KAITLYN BOOK EXCERPT
From my latest novel The Angel and The Captain
In today’s episode, Angel and her older man Captain hit the sack on their wedding night.
The tenderest love.
I really made love to Angel on our wedding night. Sometimes it’s good to fuck her. She is the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been naked in the same bed with a lot of, well a few, beautiful women over the years. My Angel is a complete freakazoid in the sack, too, and enjoys getting fucked and having her dirty old man whisper nasty things in her ear.
But not tonight. On our wedding night it was the tenderest love. It was when I kissed her at the chapel after the drunk minister pronounced us “man and wiiiiffeee” and it was the tenderest love when I carried her to bed and laid her down and began making love to her. There was no hair pulling, no filthy names whispered in her ear, just a man in love with his woman.
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To feel my Captain on top of me on our wedding night, to feel his legs spread mine, to feel his cock work his way inside me, it was love, a man making love to his wife on their wedding night and there isn’t a girl that hasn’t dreamed of this and there aren’t any guarantees it will ever happen, either.
He really ate me out. Good God, that was the best feeling. I like seeing his old man head between my legs, so I propped myself on an arm to watch but it felt so good I was on my back again soon enough. The only downside is that I would not have dismissed out of hand sucking him off and swallowed my Captain’s load, but he’s old enough where that would’ve been it and I wanted him inside me.
But that was it. It was perfect. The man I love on our wedding night. I was almost overwhelmed. Not every girl gets this. Some girls get married because they have to, or because they don’t think anyone else is going to love them or because they want regular cock or for other reasons that don’t include love.
Our reason is love. Our good marriage was off to a good start.
Click here to read more from The Angel and The Captain.