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Jane Two Book Cover revealed   Once, when I was 7 years old, my Grandaddy let me in on a little secret. He just tapped my temple with that giant trigger finger of his and said, “Seedlin’, time you turn the recorder on, ‘cause the important shit start about now. Find a place up there for all’o it… an don’t forget where ya put it.” And he was right. I’ve collected and recorded ever since. ___________________

April 14, 1992      The Congo I met a Mara named Die, and not one of our visible lifelines intersected. But more than a few invisible ones did. He was my friend. We drifted down the bilharzia filled Tana to the Indian Ocean as the tide was falling too low to turn when the call came to circle back again. The banks were too high and the water too low, so the hull scraped the bottom and threw our 40 foot steamer on it&#

Norman Reedus Is STILL Lost.  And time is of the essence.  Please start by clicking>>>> HERE if you’re just now joining the search… for PART ONE. … “VISINE!!” That’s all I heard coming from my phone as I was once again pressed against the headboard in full freestyle.  I had to go retrieve it to respond as I had propped it up facing the bathroom door with the video camer

Flanery, get the hell over here!! So, over I went.  My Grandaddy was just leaving the scoring table at one of my swim meets when I was about eight years old.  He put his arm around me and walked me all the way to a bench on the other side of the pool.  The meet was still going on, but I was done with my last event. I was wringing wet and fresh out of the pool after having placed fourth in the 25 freestyle in the boys

686.  I’ll never forget that number as long as I live. The jobs market is rough, and this weak economy has made it ever rougher.  In the last year I’ve had a number of blog requests to write something like a “how to get a job blog for the less fortunate”.  Well, I’m certainly no expert, but I will humbly give my opinion on a little something that has always worked well for me when I need

True story: Elvis Aaron Presley is ultimately responsible for my life as a martial artist, but that’s a story for another day. “I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I’d rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was

First of all, let me just say that winning IS everything, and those that disagree don’t actually know what the competition is.  Progress, and progress alone points to the winner, and without it, there won’t be any pointing at all.     This is a story about the soccer ball that changed my life… blinding determination… a belief that can bend physics… and, a certain way of life. I

Do You Want To Live Forever? -Sean Patrick Flanery A testimony from Sean Patrick Flanery. Do you?  …well guess what? You can… and making it happen is an inside job.  Shine Until Tomorrow changes lives daily. “There is no religion in the recipe.  As it turns out… the magic is in the mixing.”  -Sean Patrick Flanery I’m writing all of you today with an update on our little family.  There are a nu

If you’re intent on saving yourself, then make a PUBLIC PROCLAMATION to do so!! -Sean Patrick Flanery   I’m blown away daily at how many people have decided to re-claim their health… and lives.  Every single day I receive numerous messages on Twitter from people that have truly made significant changes in their lives for the better.  People that have already lost sixty to even one hundred pound

If you keep the truth in your back pocket… you’ll spend your whole life standing. I went bobbing for apples at the Thanksgiving day state fair when I was around six years old.  There was a teenage eskimo named Elsinore that ran the apple booth that I knew from down the street.  I knew him because he worked the crosswalk on schooldays and would always help the younger kids get across the busy intersection.