iron chicken

Originally posted by MrKnobs Darn, I hoped I'd made that clear in the story. I ran a recording studio with two partners. The good folks at the local newspaper let us pester them into doing one of the customary new business pieces you typically find in the Business section of any Sunday paper. But then they surprised us by featuring us as the headline, front page story on the Monday paper. That cost me my job at the university, as it was against the rules to work elsewhere without prior written permission. It still works that way, to this day! What is ironic to me is that we got the headline because Monday turned out to be a slow news day. Small towns have a lot of slow news days. If someone had been caught shoplifting at the local Albertsons, that story would probably have bumped us and I might still have the same job today. My life would have turned out totally different. And that's one of the questions I tried to raise in the story. Does life have a plan for us, or is it all just random luck? Or something in between? Terry D. "And that's one of the questions I tried to raise in the story. Does life have a plan for us, or is it all just random luck? Or something in between?" THE eternal question. I am of the opinion that everyone and everything is linked. Western society has evolved in such a manner that we now have to ask these questions, rather than being aware of the truth. If you are interested in reading some books on the this issue, then I can recommend the following: No Boundary - Ken Wilber Freedom from the Known - Jiddu Krishnamurti The Limits of Thought - J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm Wholeness and Implicate Order - David Bohm

Excellent story, and well told. You are definitely a talented guy. Contrary to my earlier comments, I actually managed to read it until the end. I don't usually like bleak stories, and for me that was a pretty bleak story. Hopefully telling this story has allowed you to get some things into some sort of perspective. It was a brave thing to do to expose a part of yourself yourself in this manner, especially in an environment such as this.