Scattered Thoughts from a Scattered Mind: Volume Vii Back to the Beginning

Copyright © 2018 by David Mills.

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Also by David Mills…..

Scattered Thoughts From a Scattered Mind

Xlibris Publishing, 2011

Scattered Thoughts From a Scattered Mind

Volume II…The Doctor is In

Xlibris Publishing, 2012

Scattered Thoughts From a Scattered Mind

Volume III…A Laugh a Minute

Xlibris Publishing, 2013

Scattered Thoughts From a Scattered Mind

Volume IV…Prime Redefined

Xlibris Publishing, 2014

Scattered Thoughts From a Scattered Mind

Volume V…The Road Home

Xlibris Publishing, 2015

Scattered Thoughts From a Scattered Mind

Volume VI…Boys by Day

Xlibris Publishing, 2016

This volume is dedicated to my sweet Ann,

who saved me from myself so very long ago.

and to

Gregory LeNoir Allman

(1947-2017)

There will never be another.

I certainly hope to see you again.

Anybody can jump a motorcycle.

The trouble begins when you try to land it.

Evel Knievel

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

T. S. Eliot

Contents

FOREWORD

Vegas 2016

Penny and the Slots, Part II

Trump

Leaky Faucet Falls, Nevada

Sara (no h)

Rest

Truth

It and Of Itself

Suddenly Loose

Effects From the Side

Rocket Man

The Cord

Wild Wild West

Hands Held

Pressured Speech

Wayward Guest

Breathe

Upon This Bench

Twisted

Six Minutes

Friends

Lesson Learned

Days of Wonder

Property

Upon the Wire

Nicholas Reeves

Collusion

Unquiet Mind

Another (short) Story

An Arduous Explanation

Bearing Down

Who Am I?

Time Well Spent

For Robbie

Jelena

Two Old Broads

Between The Sand and Sea

Nineteen

Wonderfully Sad

Paddling Out

Same View, Two Stories, Two Destinies

Things I Learned At Work

Modern Man

Back To The Beginning

Into The Ranks

38

Sunset

On The Day Tom Petty Died

For Grayson

Chances

Vegas 2017

The Valley of Fire

For Your Eyes Only

Keys

The Clearing

Write That Down

Collage

A Time of Unreason

For Smokey

The Woman in The Park

At Ease

Career Change

Evening Comes

For Kenny

The Way You Do

For Debby

People, Places

Back To The Beginning (Part II)

Cover Me

Tantrum

Paying It Forward

The Guardian

Passively Aggressive

M.O.M. (Many Other Meanings)

By Dallin Mills

AFTERWORD

Foreword

Hello and welcome again to the land of Scattered Thoughts,…coming to you live from Neal Young’s Sugar Mountain!

And yes, we do have barkers and colored balloons.

When last we spoke, it was 2016, Donald Trump had just won the White House and everybody and his brother was raising hell.

As Negan from The Walking Dead would say,

Not cool!…..not cool at all!

I hope by now you’ve seen there was no need whatsoever for all of the hoopla. We’ve gone an entire year and dig this: the talking heads performed admirably, no one detonated a nuclear devise in anyone else’s back yard, and garbage pickup continued to be spot on.

You ask me?…I’m putting that in the WIN column.

I trust you’ve fared