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• I’m slowing realizing it’s better not be married than to wonder constantly if my wife loves and values me or just the idea or image of being married. It sucks breaking a covenant with God and not doing a single thing to save the family unit, but it takes two to tango and she wanted to waltz out. Well, or like jitterbug out. One week we agreed to renew our vows, then two weeks later I discover she’s been unhappy in our marriage and the first I’ve heard of any complaints or concerns was in front of a judge.
• One of my biggest fears was being on my deathbed with my wife of decades on my bedside, and wondering if she really wanted to be there, or if she was just playing the part, that my last thought in this world would be doubt. Doubt that it was ever genuine love. I’m now free of that.
• Maybe it was her ex-spouse who doubted her love. Interesting it happend in East Texas – Woman charged with felony after spitting on corpse in casket at funeral home, records show
• That must have been a heck of a scene – Elephant tramples woman to death, then attacks her corpse at funeral
  • Murmu’s family was then performing her last rites before lighting a funeral pyre when the elephant allegedly returned and grabbed her body. The animal threw the corpse in the air and then ran away, the local outlet reported.
• It’s interesting getting to know other single parents. So many of the ones I speak to had an amicable divorce. They were able to agree on big issues of possession time and child support without having to talk through lawyers. I presented that option to my ex, saying that I don’t know what she wants and if I did we could get this done sooner than later, but she preferred just to talk through lawyers. That’s a lot easier when mommy is paying your legal bills. Money I wanted to spend on my kids is now going to my lawyer’s children’s college fund.
• I thought I set up two fail-proof safeguards for our marriage. Often, I’d end an argument asking if there was anything we didn’t talk about or anything she wanted to ask but didn’t get a chance to. That was my way of showing she always had a voice and I value her thoughts. Second, I told her I hated that feeling of walking on eggshells whenever I was around my older sibling, and I always felt that way. I told her I never want her to feel that, and if she did, to please let me know. But she avoids any sort of confrontation, no matter how minor, like the plague.
• I just realized this coming weekend is Father’s Day weekend. Unlike last year, when the ex planned on them being at her parent’s house the entire day, relented after a lot of pleading from me, and let me at least have breakfast with them. Thankfully, thanks to the divorce decree, I get to have them for the special weekend this year. I’ll never understand how she was able to reason that it was in the children’s best interest to only spend breakfast with their father on Father’s Day last year. She did try to reason I didn’t get to spend every Father’s Day with my father, but that’s not true. My father only lived for 22-years of my life. He had a heart attack three days before I graduated from high school. I came home from college for every Father’s Day. Talk about manipulation.
• Sometimes when a girl likes my profile on a dating app, I ask what on my profile did they like, that way I can find some common ground and build off that. This latest woman said one thing she liked was that I didn’t eat seafood and prefers steak. She had me a steak. Both of us no longer have our parents around, so that’s a unique bond.
• I bought a new living room floor lamp.
• Fauci tests positive for Covid-19. Can you imagine the conspiracy theories if he dies by it?
• I doubt believe the Ted Cruz escort story, but then again, I don’t believe Cruz is happily married either.
• On The TICKET, Corby has been interviewing Shaq for years. I remember Shaq telling him he owned a small home in Frisco, so this news didn’t surprise me – Shaquille O’Neal buys house in Collin County, real estate agency says
  • He used to do some fun bits at the onset of Twitter. One time, coming out of a mall, a couple asked for a photo and he agreed only if they gave him a ride to his car parked far away. So he crammed himself into their small two-door car. I posted about it back in 2008 with a photo.
• Greg Abbott’s handwritten notes raise fresh questions over who “misled” him about Uvalde shooting response

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• they are having so much fun … pic.twitter.com/6QfBUx3awg

  — Creature Nature (@CreatureNature_) June 14, 2022

• The air quality is horrible in Dallas and so are my allergies. It’s all because of a dust up in the Sahara, really – Saharan Dust Making Its Way To Texas, Bringing Allergies And Epic Sunsets
  • Dust from the Sahara Desert (the world’s third largest desert located about 5,000 miles away in North Africa), is drifting over Texas again and causing an increase in allergy complaints. Runny nose, scratchy throat, post-nasal drainage. Sneezing. Sometimes congestion, and hot summer temperatures aren’t helping either. The dust cloud is officially called the Saharan Air Layer. It forms in the late spring or early summer every year due to storms in Africa’s Sahel region bordering the Sahara Desert. And then, it drifts across the Atlantic Ocean into the western hemisphere. This particular dust outbreak left the African coast about ten days ago, where it was about the size of the continental United States. It traveled across the tropical Atlantic, through the Caribbean, between Central America and Cuba, and into the Gulf of Mexico.
• There’s a story behind every scar.
• One of my friends made an interesting observation about the relationship between me and my ex. She said the ex doesn’t want to discuss anything about the divorce because she doesn’t want to feel she’s on trial and has to defend herself, while I feel like I’ve been to trial and never had a chance to defend myself.

• On the Tambach track in Kenya these shadows cast giant forms, an illusion seen only when the sun is low on the horizon, at sunset or sunrise pic.twitter.com/E2rB6Z8BbN

  — Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 14, 2022

• That’s an awesome idea.pic.twitter.com/fmtWnDSNeB

  — Figen (@TheFigen) June 14, 2022

  The dog looks at peace, but I don’t think he got a say in the matter.

https://twitter.com/CreatureNature_/status/1536199333045227520

• Here’s some background to this story.

Former US president Barack Obama passed by an unexpected choir of Danish girls rehearsing in their apartment with their balcony doors open

He kindly asked if they would keep singing for him to enjoypic.twitter.com/mopGDViIbv

— UberFacts (@UberFacts) June 13, 2022

• Time which has passed since the Wise County Sheriff’s Office has failed to solve the murder of Lauren Whitener in her home at Lake Bridgeport: 1,078 days.

• The Celtic variation of Keith is “CEITEACH”. It’s of Scottish origin, a geographical surname for someone who lives in the woods. Bet the farm there will never be a president with Keith as a first name.
• Rarely will you hear me complain about the Texas heat during the late spring or summer. It’s called that’s the way it is. Acceptance is the answer to almost all our problems. A practice easier to state than follow.
• However, I will gripe about the Texas power grid. The way it is is not the way it should be.
• You know you are in for a rough Monday when your starter word for Wordle doesn’t yield any green or yellow squares.
• It’s an interesting exercise to reflect on different stages of your life and what you considered the biggest stressor in your life at the time. Some of those stressors you’ll realize strengthened you, yet some of those you’ll laugh at why you even sweated it.
• One of my biggest everyday concerns is that I’m wasting the time of the people I engage with, from friends to cashiers. Well, not that I’m wasting their time, but they feel like I’m just a waste of their time.
• Too often I feel like I deserve the pain that I’m in, whether it be emotionally or physically or whatever is in-between.There’s a difference between accepting responsibility for how I think about hurtful things others have done, and taking the blame for those actions.
• A ‘100% Texan’ fiber internet provider is ready to take on D-FW’s big brands – Tachus, based in The Woodlands, plans to enter the market with disruption in mind
• Change can come quickly, but more often it’s a gradual process in which we endure and learn many lessons.
• I hope the one thing that never gets stolen from me is my creativity. One thing that gives me hope is that I’m a work in process, Keith 1.5 trying to upgrade to Keith 2.0.
• I’ve always hated the name Keith. I don’t know what I would like, but I certainly don’t like Keith. Do the world a favor and don’t name a child Keith.
  

• One way I’m trying to upgrade from Keith 1.5 to Keith 2.0 is to try things I normally wouldn’t do, and keep an open mind. A friend has often invited me and the kids to go on his boat, but I’ve never been much of a lake person and always declined. Well, we arrived at his dock Saturday morning with open minds. The kids had a blast and couldn’t get enough of tubing. It was touching that they only wanted to do it together, not individually.
• One of friends I made through a divorce support group told me he lived and slept on his boat every night on Lewisville Lake after he and his wife separated until they were able to settle on property. I always wondered how big of a boat he has.
• The kids and I watched Field of Dreams Friday night. It delighted me it hooked them from the beginning and they thoroughly enjoyed it. Also, to my surprise, I didn’t cry. It was the first movie that happen to come on television and the first that I watched after my father died, which happened 24 years ago this month. I once counted the total number of days he was in my life, which was around 22 years.. I then counted and marked on the calendar those number of days since I started a relationship with my then wife. On that date, I was going to tell her about the special occurrence and give her something special. Oh, well. One day, I hope to find someone who would appreciate and take to heart such a moment.
• I forgot just how good James Earl Jones was in that part, and I loved that it included Burt Lancaster’s last scene. The man was smooth and elegant. I loved the story of when his character died. They found in his office boxes of blue hats he never got around to give his wife. The romantic in me loved that, and at the end of my marriage, there were several gifts I had for my wife that I never got around to giving her. I was good at giving her a steady flow of things to show her my appreciation, which she now thinks was nothing more than manipulation.
• Man, that movie influenced my life more than I thought. I never played catch with my dad. So I made damn sure I was going to play catch should I ever have a son. And, whenever he asks to have a catch, I never turn down the opportunity. Even when I lost my fine and most of my gross motor skills last fall, I gave it my best.
• As much as I like a good baseball movie, I find it funny I never played organized ball. I was scared someone like the bully Shannon Yeats, who was a pitcher, would do nothing but try to hit me with the ball. Shannon, btw, has been dead slightly longer than my father after speeding away from the cops after stealing something to buy more drugs.
• Anytime I hear a reference about the ends of the Earth or where the Earth stops (before the age of flat-Earthers), I immediately think of one of the final scenes from the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. I referenced the movie not long ago, as I watched it with the kids. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that way. My pastor used it as an illustration yesterday.