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Ending it All
Ken Baldwin was twenty-eight and severely depressed on the August day in 1985 when he told his wife not to expect him home till late.
“I wanted to disappear,” he said. “So the Golden Gate was the spot. I’d heard that the water just sweeps you under.”
On the bridge, Baldwin counted to ten and stayed frozen. He counted to ten again, then vaulted over.
“I still see my hands coming off the railing,” he said. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, “I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.”
Citing: Jumpers: The fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Tad Friend.
The New Yorker.
October 13, 2003.
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“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
~John Wayne
I’m far from expert on the subject of John Wayne, but Finley politely *cough* asked me to say something nice about him. I did a little research, because I refuse to say something disingenuous, and it appears to me that John Wayne was a man of conscientious conviction.
He did not seem to question his feelings, whether he should be feeling what he was feeling; if he was angry, sad, felt love, he just felt those things, and the only question he appeared to have for himself was how he should act on those feelings.
He appears to have been a man who lived the Golden Rule, and expected (perhaps, insisted) others to treat him with the same respect.
“I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.”
To Fin: IFLYLMB!
Where did you grow up?
Around the world.
Where do you live now?
Atlanta
What is the highest level of education you have attained?
Fatherhood
What subjects did/do you enjoy the most at school?
Humanities, sociology, philosophy, biology, feminism, creative writing and performing arts.
What's your favorite sport or sports?
Silat
What kinds of jobs have you held? Industries too!
Web design and adult education.
What hobbies are you into?
Art, music, chess.
What causes are you concerned about today?
Rights of the oppressed.
If you claim a political party affliation, which is it?
Centrist
Which religion (if any) do you follow?
Agnostic
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