Jack's Ramblings

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Well, I was wondering about the origin of the name, Tru.  I live on the New Madrid fault line and I have felt (and heard) the ground shaking several times in the past few years!

So--is there a story behind the name? 

Well you call can call me anything, I answer to most.

Back about 1993 I was going to a lot of Pow Wows and really getting into native culture and diecided I would like to have an native name, and the proper was if for the chief of your tribe to give you one, so I would just have to make do with what came my way. One day at lunch this woman was laughing about something on TV, I think it was a comedy skit featuring a character called Shakes The Clown, but I thought she said Shakes the Ground, and I thought "yah, that's it'.

So you live on the New Madrid fault line, man I see an special on TV once about that, the 1811 earth quake and all the infrastructure and pipelines that cross it now, dang, it is going to be a mess next time.

[jstephens9]

I like "ShakestheGround" much better than Shakes the Clown. Shakes the Clown sounds like on of those evil clowns 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I think it is time for me to take off that mask. I just wanna be me.

[injest]

I think it is time for me to take off that mask. I just wanna be me.

your 'skin' has gotten too tight and you are ready to shed it? What will you leave behind with it, if you could?

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Well, my bill, yes, my bills. 

[ifyoucantfixit]

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

--From Romeo and Juliet

       We would love you no matter the name.  Its the heart we see.

[jstephens9]

It has been really weird lately. It seems like ever since San Francisco something has changed with me, but like I was telling someone I don't know how, what, or even if it is good or bad. I cannot put my finger on what it is. I feel like I am spending all my time and mind on figuring it out. I may need to disappear, take a hiatus, get my mind off it or something. It sounds crazy to think that going to a place can have an effect on you like that. Hopefully, it will either go away or I will forget about it. Like I say, I guess I just need to go in other directions for quite awhile. I pretty much put an end to any time or posting I do at the other forum. I never understood all the arguing that went on there anyway. It seems like I got involved in a discussion there that I wish I would have never found. But that really has nothing to do with this other feeling. It just adds to the weirdness. There was no doubt that I always liked Bettermost more as I have said many, many times.

Jack

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Well Jack what are you feeling, what do you think SF woke up in you?

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Hey Jack I enjoyed our talk this evening. It kindly reminds me of Rodney King: "Can we all get along?"

[ifyoucantfixit]

      Ok darlin what gives...tell me whats wrong.  You know we are all here for you.  You know I am a good listener.  So spit it out...no one can help if they dont know the problem.