Let Your Higher Self Rule

“You let your higher self rule

and your truer self grieve,

and the world will still strip away

all you ever hoped to achieve.”

HemmingPlay

https://hemmingplay.wordpress.com/about/ More at the link. I remember him. He was sitting in the heat on the dock waiting for the ferry to Okracoke, Island in the Outer Banks, NC. It was probably sometime in '72 or '73. He'd driven nearly 12 hours straight and was so tired he couldn't understand the accents of the natives there. I wonder whatever happened to him? I heard a rumor that he married a skinny Irish girl and they settled down somewhere, had a couple of boys, got old. He put on a few pounds. She's still got the girlish shape that caught his eye all those years ago. He probably still has that shirt, though, and still wishes he looked like this. The idiot.

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August 19, 2017

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3 thoughts on “Let Your Higher Self Rule”

theusedlife
August 20, 2017 at 8:06 AM

Really nice!😊

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- HemmingPlay
  August 20, 2017 at 6:56 PM
  
  Thank you. It is a quote, but I haven’t put the attribution on it yet because I haven’t found out who wrote it. It may be Craig Johnson, author of the Longmire mysteries. Which only proves my theory that some of the best writing isn’t some snooty literary work about depressed genius,but good old detective fiction. Life and death, honor and fear and betrayal and truth and lies. Nothing better if, as is true for me, that the most exciting trail to follow is the deep down, good or bad, things people do and why.
  
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  - theusedlife
    August 20, 2017 at 8:18 PM
    
    I like what you say about some of the best work being “hidden gems.” Isn’t what makes a lot of artists and thinkers great -their ability to see past all the “snootiness” to the stuff that really matters?
    
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