Only you can get away with a line like, "Yo dawg -- keep it Wagnerian."
"My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand." Thich Nhat Hanh
Well I thank you for your vote of confidence, @Lotus.
By way of counter-point let me suggest that, given the Mad Chops -- and Madder Still sense of humor -- it takes to draft a DB chat board post that includes allusions to the Grateful Dead, Catch-22, 16th-century Samurai combat philosophy, Shakespeare, Man and Superman, "The Lone Ranger," Wagner's Ring cycle, Sinclair Lewis, football, hip-hop, H.P. Lovecraft, Christian Realism, John LeCarre, Stoicism, First Corinthians, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, I just might have the chops to stay on the straight-and-narrow.
Or not. One is, after all, human -- bookstore-mis-spent youth to the contrary notwithstanding.
By way of counter-point let me suggest that, given the Mad Chops -- and Madder Still sense of humor -- it takes to draft a DB chat board post that includes allusions to the Grateful Dead, Catch-22, 16th-century Samurai combat philosophy, Shakespeare, Man and Superman, "The Lone Ranger," Wagner's Ring cycle, Sinclair Lewis, football, hip-hop, H.P. Lovecraft, Christian Realism, John LeCarre, Stoicism, First Corinthians, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, I just might have the chops to stay on the straight-and-narrow.
Writing about it pithily, and doing it, are two very different things, SP.
That being said, I STILL think you can do this, but I think you're going to be in a very tough patch for awhile, until you and your wife learn to better stuff all the anger and resentment and bile that hasn't fully come out yet.
There exists only one fact, one inescapable, irremediable, unalterable fact: "Mrs. SP" no longer exists. The person who used to inhabit that name -- gone. The woman that took her place can live or die and it doesn't make a damn bit of difference to me, because I don't know that person. She's a stranger who happens to have a relationship with my children. It's all back to the Latin root of "divorce:" divertere, to turn aside.
Mrs. SP turned aside. And now, to borrow a phrase, "I do" too.
Well I thank you for your vote of confidence, @Lotus.
