Francis Erich McElroy
Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.
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Inertia
“Inertia makes for a decent decade but a wasted lifetime.” – FEM It seems to me if one second was equivalent to one snowflake then rolling around a snowball to make the head of a snowman could contain up to ten years – while the rest of him, packed tightly, could hold a lifetime…
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Now Read This
My number one obstacle to success is that I don’t follow through with ideas I have at the most basic level to change my complacency towards wanting success. I am not emotionally lazy by any means, just too comfortable with my basic ideology while navigating through the day. If I had specific instructions on how…
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Home Again
Now that I had arrived back home it seems I would now be able to move on with my life, maybe go back to school, get a job – rather than lay around Albuquerque trying to fit in with punk rock artists but falling short by drawing help with rent from a few Marilyn Manson…
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Rome – Bending the Rules
I haven’t left the boundaries of Michigan for more than five days in over fifteen years and I have no plans to do so. Writing about my trip to Europe is really reliving my glory days when I was more spontaneous, adventurous, and brave. Rome was the most glorious of all places I’ve been because…
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Home II – Kindness As A State of Mind
As a grown-up runaway I found out what “state of mind” means in America. The first person I encountered upon crossing the state line into Michigan was a woman opening a door for me saying rather directly and without question “your dad lives in Michigan…” There were no children around, I wasn’t hearing voices, it…
