Intellectually Hichhiking

I’ve intellectually hitchhiked a good portion of the way. Just kinda stuck my thumb out and listened to all kinds of adventurous ideas that came along. I’ve seen some peculiar things and slept in strange places… but I’m a bit older now, not much, only 41, and some of the pieces of things seem a little clearer, and it seems easier to walk instead of run these days.

I grew up in the church; my dad’s a minister. I went to Christian private schools… even some pretty fundamentalist ones. I had enough church to leave as soon as I could get away. After I left private school because of issues concerning punk rock albums, I stuck out my intellectual thumb. I was ready to listen to socialist, fascists, communists, anarchists, liberals, conservatives, libertarians, drug dealers… my ear was open and my thumb was out…