Growth And Grind Philosopher Pillows

'Believe me, a pet doesn't do a day's work in his life.'

George Orwell

"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"

"How was my day? I'm still calculating the little victories minus the humiliations I normally suffer."

Sigh … They grow up so fast, don't they?

Monday: Next 7 exits.

"Son, the world is full of disappointments. About 7.7 billion of them."

Getting through the week.

'Would you like a push Dear?'

'Retirement is OK, but instead of looking forword to weekends, I'm working at McDonalds.'

And I intend to fill it. For nature abhors a vacuum.'

'I've been watering myself by taking showers. How come I'm not growing as tall as your plants?'

Cars follow the sign to the mall rather than the sign to the manger.

"Whole bean or ground relentlessly to dust?"

"Junior's moved back home! It took him less than a week to work out that the grass is not always greener on the other side..."

'I never get any credit for all the years we upsized.'

"You'll grow in time my boy. Until then you'll just have to be a 'little' patient!"

'When they start calling you a splendid bird, you know you're in trouble.'

Rodin's 'The Thinker' imagines himself as Rodin's 'The Kiss'.

'I find the best way to get them to grow up is to buy them a 1-way ticket to Europe, and let them work their way back.'

'No matter how hard I work, I'll never get higher on the food chain then this?'

The War Against Imagination

"Maybe he's waving and drowning."

"One day, son, all this anxiety will be yours."

Conflict is harder to sustain when you don't see everything in black and white.

'What does Easter mean to you?'

The swamp of adolescence

Commuter reads book entitled: Commuters for Dummies.

"Brenda's always been a bit of a worrier."

'Darn! - Don't you hate it when you forget what you were meditating about?'

"This is the path to adulthood, You're here."

Evolution explained.

"Remind me, what's the difference between a metaphor and a simile?"

'Slow down, young fella, all in good time!'

"I can't image growing up without computers or cell phones. Your generation had it rough, huh, Dad?"