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Category: Sol Luckman

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.

bewilderment, childhood, dad, disorientation, family-history, father, father-and-son, identity, parent, personal-history, son, surprise, through-the-looking-glass

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.

adolescence, adulthood, boy, boyhood, coming-of-age, crossroads, deception, growing-up, illusion, lies, maturation, rite-of-passage, summer, teen, teenager

True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like the locals to be rejected as one of their own.

Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

comedy, funny, hate, hatred, humor, injustice, irony, unfair, unfairness, wit, witty

Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

brazil, brazilian, comedy, foreign-language, funny, humor, language, porguguese, spanish, speech, speech-impediment, wit, witty

It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with.

beggar, begging, conformity, generosity, good-will, human-nature, making-money, money, philanthropy, poverty

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.

art, beggar, begging, homeless, homelessness, hunger, mastery, poverty

Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.

anxiety, comedy, concern, fear, funny, humor, humorous, nervous, nervousness, wit, worry, worrying

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

comedy, doctor, funny, healing, health, humor, illness, lifestyle, md, medicine, physician, poor-health, unhealthy, wellbeing, wellness

The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly rooted in the realm of metaphysics and begged an answer to why he could do these things.

astral-projection, esoteric, lucid-dream, lucid-dreaming, metaphysics, mystery, paranormal, physics, pineal, siddhis, super-powers, supernatural

In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was theOmega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end—and that the end was just another beginning.

alpha, beginning, circle, circularity, closure, completion, end, omega, time, time-travel