Thoughts of a Canary

   W: Time to get up; you need to run.    B: 5 more minutes. You know I didn't go to sleep until late.    W: You've slept enough. Get dressed.    B: Fine, fine..........................    B: I'm dying. I need to stop. The legs are tired. The lungs can't get enough oxygen.    W: I know it's hard. Keep going. You need this.    B: What do I need to do, die?! Can't you feel my pain? This is pointless. I need to stop.    W: I know what you are going through. I know that every nerve is telling you that it can take no more. I know your lungs are desperately gasping for oxygen and your muscles are battered and torn. Keep going.    B: You have lost all reason. I'm shutting this down. You don't know what I'm going through.    W: Ever since the soul was fused to you I have been here. In every decision of the past where you persevered I was there prodding. In every achievement wherein you were crown...

"THIS ISN'T LIFE! This is stuff! And it's become more important to you than living!"  -  Kevin Spacey, American Beauty For the past couple weeks, my mind has felt like a stagnant pool. My intellect has been as if it was a being in a white room grasping at puffs of smoke that are memories and higher-faculty thoughts. Have you ever felt like that ? Like you have lost the ability to function at the level you once did ? Like you have to jumpstart your brain because you have run it aground in frivolities ? I was speaking to a friend of mine about this problem. He immediately responded that he thinks that is a growing trend. That the minds of the millennial generation have been trained to be gratified and entertained, not to retain. There is one instrument that has been able to stultify an entire generation. It is in your pocket or purse right now.   The ability to look up an answer to any question on one's smartphone is the scourge of the m...

Editor's note: I thought to let my dear friend Munson have a "celeb shot" to play Canary for a week. His mind is pretty nonsensical, so it makes for some interesting reading. If silence is golden then Munson is platinum.  -Worley      We are humans. It is in our very nature to be sociable and to engage in frequent social discourse.  There are two extreme opposites to this mean, as is the case with any behavior or activity.  An example of the aforementioned extremes would be to consider – while we are on the topic – having a conversation.  One extreme would be speaking with immense volume and with intense gesturing.  While I cannot say I have encountered this in my own life, I am sure such a conversational hazard exists because Nicolas Cage exists.  The other extreme pertains to something we have all experienced, either by accident or otherwise; the awkward silence.   And since my current job deals exclusively with people, I run into this...