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May I again share with you some of my thoughts at random?  After all, when you think of it, our thoughts are the only things we'll ever own.  But I've said that.---Someone said that no one has fully investigated the effect of clothes on man's behavior.  Well now, if it's talking about a clinical study or survey, resulting in a bunch of statistics, maybe not.  But I recall when I got my first pair of blue jeans, with the button down, tan pocket flaps all way 'round, I felt about six-feet tall..maybe seven.
   Some guy named Nietzsche writes that a woman who feels well-dressed would not catch cold even if she were half-naked.  He didn't know my mother.
   Emerson quotes a lady as saying that dressing well gives her "a feeling of inner tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow."  If that's the case I suppose if she were about to be hung she would rather be well-dressed than to get her soul fixed up with lord before the trap door is sprung.
   I find when I go out well-dress, I am accorded more deference and courtesy than the other way around.  Were I about to be hung, however, dress wouldn't matter.
   A young man once related that when he rode his motorcycle cross-country, folks would hardly give him the time of day but when he took off his helmet and face shield and bought himself a cowboyhat, everybody seemed to want to talk and visit with him.
   --We've carried this thing of looks too far.  There must be a happy medium---between drop dead gorgeous and dirty Lil or nasty Ned.
   I guess if we wanted to name this generation, among other things, we could call it "the diet cult generation".  Beats me why a woman desires to own a pair of legs like a "killdee', and looks likes she's been cheated out of her backside.  I've never slept with a female skeleton(male either) but I don't particularly think I'd favor it.  First wife Bett has always been just right.
   Believe you me, a man will look at a plump woman--especially if she's put together nice and pretty.  Fact is, growing up, I've heard more than one older say, "She's a big, fine-lookin' woman."
   News Flash:  Dieters are gonna' die, iron-pumpers and joggers too, even doctors...I know, because there a a whole hat-ful of doctors I've know my life who aren't here any more.
   Sad that so many folks wander through life blind to trivial causes, motives and wants..."If I just had this, this, and this.  Or, "If I could win the lottery, I'd get a face-lift."  She should not have.  Her kids told, "Momma, don't come down stairs in the daytime, you'll scare the dogs."
   King Solomon is said to have been the wisest (human) man who ever lived and also one of the richest.  In THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT Jesus referred to Solomon's finery:  "Consider the lilies of the field...even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these." (Mat. 6:28)
   Solomon said that all his quest for riches and splendor was vanity, chasing the wind, fallacy---"Believe me, I've had it all.  It is all at best only an imitation of happiness."  And he went on to say,  "In the end, I've come to this conclusion, it is good for a man(mankind) to eat and drink and to enjoy the fruits of his labor."(Ecc. 3:13)
   Therefore I say(me talkin' now), more often than not, go and hav a big, greasy cheeseburger and fries and a chocolate shake.  Then pick up a dozen Dixie Creme donuts on the way home.
   Better still, pick up TWO dozen and call me.

Kindest regards....