Realisms ... if truth be known
wouldn't we feel like idiots?

So much of myself might be scattered throughout this site in the wordings, in the melodies, in the pictures, even the backgrounds. All of them create and recreate something that has touched me in some way at some time once upon my lifetime.
If I were to pull my experiences together, the facts may bore you, the lessons might amuse some of you, the logic gained might confuse you, the insight might touch you. But for everything gained and lost and gained again or repeated throughout a past that was perhaps already written before it was told, two phrases have somehow managed to tattoo themselves on my memory.

An algebra teacher from eighth grade put the first one there while trying to explain integers to a person who thought too hard to understand them in the first place. To drift here slightly, mathematics, aside from the VERY basics, was never my "cup o' tea." After all, you cannot sugar coat numbers unless you have a passion for them to begin with, right? But algebra was a MUST in school and to get through it with a passing grade it made sense to remember my teacher's formula. Of course, at that time its meaning only applied to math. And only in recent years have I found it can apply to anything. So ...

KISS