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What started the blog. The thoughts were already there...

I had to drop the kids off at an escape room.  I didn't want to be the guy who sat inside, yelling at a bunch of 11 year olds, "Are you idiots??  Can't you see that goddamn clue??" so I chose to sit outside.  Win/win if you ask me. After watching the intro video twice on the lobby TV, I realized the group I had brought were not geniuses and would probably be taking closer to the full hour.  Seeing nothing of interest in the standard escape room lobby decor, I turned around on the bench to look out the window. Industrial park.  Not much to see there either.  Self-storage garage doors in the distance. An abandoned mini-dozer in the forefront.   An expanse of empty parking lot. Then the flag caught my eye.  Flapping in the late summer breeze.  That's a good focal point.  I straightened my posture, but relaxed my consciousness. I was reminded of a story where people were lamenting the cost of upkeep on flags; apparently the tips of flags travel at ridiculous s
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The Beginning

My dad taught through stories.  Every lesson was a convoluted comparison of the current situation to some other situation. Modern day parables in a way. Unfortunately, I've come to do the same.  Instead of getting to the damn point, I see some kind of relationship to something else and spend too much time thinking of the "something else" rather than focusing on the point at hand. I thought I'd write them down and told my wife I was going to start a blog called "Analogies", knowing full well that in this day and age that name must already be taken.  It was.  She suggested I change the last part to "geez" since she's subjected to quite a few of them and doesn't apparently see the wisdom and insights therein. Analogeez.  The "anal" kind of jumps out at you.  Anal? O geez.  Takes on a different meaning. Anal OG's.  My gangsta take in the same direction. Settled on Ah-nalogies.  Gets rid of the rectum and hopefully impa
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