There exists a place in West Palm, a place where beer brews, where taco trucks give you a fried jalapeño, where there are boutiques, where Phipps’s gumbo limbo trees shade the skatepark, where if you breathe enough of the air you become a better you.
Which Restaurant(s) Should I Visit?
Howley’s is there, a place to eat, drink, and socialize with your friends, that stays open 24 hours. If you are going there, be sure to sleep off your drinks at the Motor Lodge, where you can hear the conversations of their customers sitting on the patio, like the women’s group from 8:00 am in the morning. The motel is one door down. The rooms are smoking and non, it is less than $100 per night, and the cable television is the kind that most quickly changes the channels, no delay.
On the crossroads of Dixie Hwy. and Puritan, Dixie Grill wafts its burger smoke onto the sidewalk. Everything about that place, from the memorabilia that adorns the walls to the unmissable neon sign is a gorgeous vintage. The staff is hospitable, likable from the get go. People line the bar for some of the beer the brewers brew there, of which I was permitted to free sample about seven before I selected the Seven Layer Stout. For those who do not know their beers, stout is a dark brown beer that is rich and flavorful, often chocolate is its flavor but hazlenut, oatmeal, and coffee are its flavors just as often. There is a good selection of sours, too. I am attaching photos of some stuff that covers every single inch of the dining area.
Dixie Grill is a playroom, a time capsule.
Print’s Not Dead
Palm Beach County’s local newspaper is called the Palm Beach Post. If you are in town, you can find one at the bodega, and check the sports section, to see FAU football in full color.
How Do I Find This Place?
This area of Dixie Highway that I am referring to is due south of Palm Beach Atlantic University, the Norton Art Museum also. It is about three miles from downtown, where Clematis St hosts the city of West Palm’s dance clubs.
What Didion or Thompson Might Have Said
S. Dixie Hwy is defined by its people, by the understanding that exists in the collective consciousness there. What residents have along S Dixie Hwy is remarkable, something which more should take notice of its worth, that barrio.
This is the city of the fighting spirit, of pride, of never backing down. It is where battles have been fought and won, from a big Native American uprising, to the fort that withstood attack by the British in 1776, to a slave uprising, to the Civil War, to the Germans during WWII. This city wins. It has won, even escaped Nat Sherman’s terror, which was unleashed on nearby Columbia, instead. No doubt Sherman was fearful of a bloody battle, if he fought here in Charleston.
Charleston is gloriously historic. It has a Vieux Carre that predates the famous one in New Orleans. Its French food is similar and the style of building is similar, the French Quarter’s second story balconies that overlook the street.
The St. Michael’s Church of Charleston is a time capsule to 1761, a time when we Americans were still considered British. Its stained glass window features the angel Gabriel with a sceptre, driving it through satan’s head. The bell tower in its steeple crossed the Atlantic Ocean seven times. Its pews are in pewboxes, so that the pew has a door that you open and close to have a seat in the pew. Church of England was the original denomination, which became the Episcopal Church after the Revolutionary War, which when the Episcopal Church split up in the 21st Century renamed its denomination the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina. The double-decker pulpit and lectern hangs over the pews some thirty feet, has a rounded roof that is a sound-reverberating device, that amplifies the priest’s voice like the steeples in a church echo the sound waves of singing congregation. The pinecone on the pulpit is a symbol of Charleston, symbolizing wisdom and resurrection.
Slave labor built the church. Slaves attended mass in the church. Slaves worshipped upstairs during the same service as their masters. The querulous thing about is that the Bible and the Church are supposed to be liberators, providers of a spiritual peace. How did the church preach things to slaves that made them feel the power of Christ? The southern priests would cite passages from the Bible that they would interpret as support for slavery. The northern priests had the opposite interpretation that supported abolitionism. Slaves left St. Michael’s after the Civil War, to found their own churches.
South Carolina was established as a state as part of the land grant of 1761 by the English King George III. Carolama was its name, which was then corrupted into Carolina. The City of Charleston was called Charles Land. This land grant stretched from Virginia to Florida, all the way to California, that was the land which was divvied up by a colonial ruler in a different world, no question answered to anyone else who may have laid claim to the land.
“Don’t tread on me,” are words to live by, which were emblazoned on the famed US Military flag, that exemplified political propaganda. Designed by Charles Gadsen, who was a South Carolinian. Thank South Carolina for that great allegory that stirred in the American spirit pride and fight.
There is a place there called the Gunpowder Magazine that is where all the dynamite and ammunition of the army of Charleston was once stored. This building was built in such a way to stem its explosion, if a spark should mistakenly or purposefully ignite its contents and decimate several blocks. This was thought of by the older generation of Charleston leadership, a rounded roof with metal grates over the windows. It did not prevent disastrous explosion at all. Four buildings on either side of the Gunpowder Magazine were decimated, many people died. So, the building was rebuilt on a different spot across town. It did not explode again.
The great theatre of Charleston is its British heritage. There were some real loyalist things about it. All wills and whims flow with the consciousness of one’s sense of place, a historical place, which is why such historical stuff makes such an interesting place to be a part of.
An American flag hoisted above a sea of bodies decked out in redcoats is an image that is stirred from the knowledge of Charleston’s military might. It is a former colony of the crown, which means that it is still somewhere that has those values, the crownish values.
Charleston still has a degree of snobbery, which resembles the English kind. That sounds bad, but is it? It was a great port of rice trade, even sold its rice in China.
George Washington visited Charleston, during a time when he was like the most famous rapper at any given time is, loved by all. He attended a dance, at which he danced with one hundred women. Many wanted to have their dance with the famed president. Later, a portrait was made to commemorate this by a northern painter, who eliminated the Charleston setting and replaced it with the battle of New Jersey, who when lawsuited against in response and demanded to repaint painted it in such a way that was insulting to Charleston by placing a horse’s tokus in the foreground between its legs visible the city of Charleston, its tail raised as if to make manure.
This great city is remarkable, because it is a place I desire to return to that I also know I had better just leave it be, somewhere I desire but that I feel is above my station. The women, perhaps. I will love them, when I find them again. Such lovely southern belles.
This old city has been French world since the 1690’s. The French named Bourbon St. after their royal family, the House of Bourbon. In some mysterious way, “Bourbon” was decided upon as the moniker for whiskey, from Kentucky, crafted in oak barrels from fermented corn, the barrels disposed of after one useage. My guess is that Kentuckian distillers chose it during the 19th Century, when New Orleans was the top port of the southern United States.
It is true that New Orleans was to be the capitol city of Dixieland. The South lost the war. When a Confederate general named Richard Taylor surrendered the Confederate armies of Louisiana and other south coast states, that the night of Union ravagement in New Orleans must have looked like the scene from Gone With The Wind, the wide lens shot of the night of fires, the protagonists’ horse drawn carriage racing in fear away to a safety that was too far to reach, angered townsfolk smashing and grabbing whatever they could, forcing themselves on the Southern belles.
The southern end of the Quarter is Canal St., the eastern end The Mississippi. What the sexual brothel-ness of New Orleans takes its appeal from is its former red-light district, once known as Storyville, which closed and which moved its sex work businesses into the French Quarter. For example, there is Larry Flynt’s Barely Legal Strip Club. That is no place for a graduate student to spend his or her dime.
Breaking up is really very easy once you get the right mindset.
Always put yourself first.
Don’t care what the other person thinks about you or feels about you.
Don’t catch feelings after you have broken up.
When it is time to break up, break up.
When you detect some red flags and they argue with you, break up.
If your soon-to-be-ex is acting mean, not kind and not friendly, just say I think we should break up.
If they act emotional at first, know that they will get over it.
Be sure to look at for their feelings and try not to let it hurt them too much, in no way be angry at them or blame them for anything.
Love yourself.
Love the empty spaces in time that you will have, when you no longer receive phone calls, texts, inboxes, comments from your soon-to-be-ex
Get out there in the world and find someone new.
Breaking up is just a matter of believing in what you are feeling. Forget what you believed when you first met the person, that you would be together forever. Once you have realized the relationship is less than perfect, that is when you should do it.
Do not make your feelings drag behind you, unattended. Pause and talk to the person about what is bothering you that they have made you feel.
When you do this, do not let them interrupt or confuse you. Write down whatever it is that bothers you that they have made you feel.
Find a way to express it.
You deserve better. You deserve to be treated better than you are by the people who say they love you.
Be wary of any lover who wants to be your lover. Some lovers can be dangerous. Such lovers could hurt your feelings after you break up. If you have to persist through a lover’s resistance to your charms, that can be an indicator that this is a better lover than one who just gives it up to you no questions asked, no refusals.
If they get mad that you are bothering them, by all means stop. But if there is a slight note of desire mingled with the rejection, come back later.
If the lover stops answering questions and does not express things well verbally or in written language, then by all means move on.
If the lover does not like the same music as you, then by all means move on.
If the lover detests things about you that you are proud of, then move on.
Though, Master Atreides returns in the preceding novels, like Dune Messiah, wherein he becomes like a messiah, he IS the good guy because he is the protagonist, the one we all connect to and feel the emotions of.
Nice Owl Merchandise, size L, uncomfortable to wear at current fat, unhealthy also
I have about 30 clothing items in my possession that I longer wear and have decided to get rid of. Some of these items were expensive to buy.
Thinning my clothing collection leads me to conclude that buying clothing is a waste. Commemorative though T-shirts can be, you can remember without buying a T-shirt.
Sweaters, shorts, coats are things to get rid of after a while. Wearing the same coat or pair of shorts for decades can be a poor choice.
Here are five ways to get rid of clothing that no longer fits you.
Give to Goodwill. This is what most people do. Someone said Goodwill is unethical, because it resells in Africa, destabilizing their economy. I no longer donate there. Clothing dumped in deserts of South America is sad.
2. Find a church that has a clothing service for homeless. It could be fun for a less fortunate person to be seen wearing a stylish outfit.
3. Offer friends your old clothes. Post to Instagram clothing for sale.
4. Post the clothing to your Etsy account. Value your clothes. Price your clothing generously.
5. Throw them in the garbage. If they were a giveaway, throw them away.
Other options
You can also lose weight. You can wear the old clothes. You will have a rosebud.
Conclusion
Buy Givenchy and Yves St. Laurent. If you can get a Russian designer brand, get one. Dress to impress and you will. Dress like a musician, and receive less. Wear color. Wear all black. Wear khaki. Wear hot climate style. Wear suits. Wear clothes women find attractive. Wear Bolivianos Identitades costumes? J/k
Black Jorts and an oldie but goodie brown and purple plaid shirtDead Milkmen T-Shirt, a size too small
Shirt that is one size too small, would not like to part with it, will probably hold onto it\
