Kyle

“Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?”
― Morrie Schwartz

“Being Southern means carrying a responsibility to shake off the comforting blanket of myth and see ourselves clearly. I was bringing a child into this world, and into our long history of trying to do the right think while benefiting mightily from the wrong thing, and I wanted her to see it clearly without the nostalgia that so often softens my anger and desire to tear it down and build a new world in its place.”
― Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

“This all makes me think a lot about what it means to be from the Mississippi Delta; to be from the South, For me and other White people of a certain social class, it means that I carry a legacy of a roguish and faded gentility, a love for whiskey, and fast cars on riding road,s and a knowledge of roadside blues clubs that offered guitars and tall boys of beer.”
― Wright Thompson, Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

“How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”
― Morrie Schwartz