Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 02, 2011

THAT’S what’s missing in my life! A CAVE!

I have a “Man Cave” but it’s just not the same.

so, all those baseball cards that I threw out, I probably should have held onto?

Grandchildren make it all worthwhile.

Okay by me as long as that cave has electricity and indoor plumbing.

Not many caves around S.W. MI. And the ones that are here are already occupied.

i find shopping online for new home theater gear is most sastifying!!!

A cave! A cave! My kingdom for a cave!

Would’a, could’a, should’a.

For the oblivious idiots who feel the need for consulting gurus, psychics, hyperbolic investment advisors without any recorded results, etc., this is probably as real as it gets.

Conversely, those who exercise judicious temperament, learn from life’s good and bad incidents and plan for the bad so as to enjoy the good, life is good and ripe for enjoyment.

I hope for all of my fellow readers that they will partake more of the latter than of the former in this sparkling New Year 2011 of great potential!

Oh, the guru isn’t a nut case, Fish Stix – it’s sober, unsentimental, and true, as far as it goes. The Book of Ecclesiastes says pretty much the same thing. But at least it comes up with a better answer than moving into a cave:

“I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.”

So, don’t make yourself crazy about things you can’t know and can’t change – you can’t do anything about the past, and you don’t (and may not) have the future. Be thankful for the day you’re in right now, enjoy it, and make the best that you can of it, for yourself and everyone around you.

That might require a boat, of course, or a home entertainment center. :)

I don’t know how you pulled that out of there, Fish Stix. And by the time you’re the guru’s age, you’ve finished growing up – with luck – and you realize that hanging a political label on yourself matters as little as what color socks you wore last week. What matters is your brain, your heart, and your conscience working together on any given day.

Scaaty, thank you for that ray of hope !

Any guru is a fool’s guru.

and then there is this:

If you meet the Buddha on the road*, KILL HIM!

*or in a cave *or on a rock *or on a mountain *or on a dock *or in the sea *or by a lake *or on tv *or with a snake He aint the Buddha short or tall The Buddha’s in YOU that is all.

Worked for Batman :)

I defer to your years, sir. :) And I believe you’re right: your life has meaning because you’ve supported the things that matter to you. Most people can’t be bothered to sort out what their values are, much less live by them.

G..U..R..U.. Gee, You Are You, my translation meaning YOU are your Own guru. Expectations set one up for disappointments. :) I sure learned a lot once I started really listening to my Kids. A “label” is something we put on someone so we can hate them without knowing them!

This strip reminds me of Ecclesiastes too, Scatty: For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.

Go home and build a blanket-fort, dude! That’ll get ya well on your way to recovery.

Happy New Year, Wiley!

Now I know I am not the only one.

Ya know, I’m NOT at all happy with the flashcard section…

(…and Junco49 HAS to be Dr. Seuss! lol)

yeah, when i was young i thought i would live forever and squandered by health.

now i am an ornery and crotchety curmudgeon, i miss my health. …. but i still believe i will live forever. ….. some delusions die hard.

Wiley Miller is another walt kelley. both held a mirror up to our faces.

Wiley is Wiley and thank goodness for that ! But Walt Kelly was in a league all by himself ! Pogo forever ! The George Carlin of the print world .

^ At least we’re not crying all the time.

For some, getting older brings wisdom, for others, just gray hair. (What little is left, that is.) ” To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven” New Year, New beginnings. Have a Happy……..

move over in that cave. i’m moving in.

This strip is IT in a nutshell !!

I can live in enlightened contentment from now on…

Man you have some dark truths. Happy New Year.

Is this the Prozac salesman in disguise? Both that and this advice can lead to suicide.

By the way, Faulkner said women are born knowing what men take a lifetime to learn. (THE BEAR) That the people, family, around them are the real importance of life.

Junco, the idea of that quote is that you must find your own middle way. The Buddha is a symbol in that religion, not an ideal. You don’t have him in you as Christians have the Holy Spirit. There is only one empty tomb.

Who knew that comic readers would be so philisophical.

Another good one Wiley - Thanks

Life is a flat road… No real turns or sudden stops… It’s where we stand on that road… That determines what we see… We’re all on the same road… Some speeding, changing lanes without signaling… Some slow and thoughtful, just a step behind… But we all end where the road ends… And holding the hand of a common traveler… Will bring all of us towards our common goal… Decency, empathy and hope…and truth (love)

It was said better in a song back in the 60’s:

“Happiness is just an illusion, Filled with sadness and confusion.”

To each his/her own, and the one with the most toys (whatever they may be, like your boat FishStix) wins.

Guess we all die winners, don’t we?

I know where I’ve heard this joke before. There is a variant in one of Douglas Adams’ books in which someone, probably Ford Prefect, goes looking for a sage who sits on top of a high pole and is promptly dragooned into hauling a xerox machine out of a filthy cave on which the sage runs off a copy of his words of wisdom, which mostly deal with ocean front property, which he hadn’t bought. If that doesn’t make sense you should read the book. I think the episode is in “So Long and Thanks for the Fish” Maybe.

A guy with a long beard living in a cave? I would look out for military drones.