How to Live" by Charles Harper Webb
(from Amplified Dog. © Red Hen Press)

Eat lots of steak and salmon and Thai curry and mu shu
pork and fresh green beans and baked potatoes
and fresh strawberries with vanilla ice cream.
Kick-box three days a week. Stay strong and lean.
Go fly-fishing every chance you get, with friends

who'll teach you secrets of the stream. Play guitar
in a rock band. Read Dostoyevsky, Whitman, Kafka,
Shakespeare, Twain. Collect Uncle Scrooge comics.
See Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, and everything Monty Python made.
Love freely. Treat ex-partners as kindly

as you can. Wish them as well as you're able.
Snorkel with moray eels and yellow tangs. Watch
spinner dolphins earn their name as your panga slam-
bams over glittering seas. Try not to lie; it sours
the soul. But being a patsy sours it too. If you cause

a car wreck, and aren't hurt, but someone is, apologize
silently. Learn from your mistake. Walk gratefully
away. Let your insurance handle it. Never drive drunk.
Don't be a drunk, or any kind of "aholic." It's bad
English, and bad news. Don't berate yourself. If you lose

a game or prize you've earned, remember the winners
history forgets. Remember them if you do win. Enjoy
success. Have kids if you want and can afford them,
but don't make them your reason-to-be. Spare them that
misery. Take them to the beach. Mail order sea

monkeys once in your life. Give someone the full-on
ass-kicking he (or she) has earned. Keep a box turtle
in good heath for twenty years. If you get sick, don't thrive
on suffering. There's nothing noble about pain. Die
if you need to, the best way you can. (You define best.)

Go to church if it helps you. Grow tomatoes to put store-
bought in perspective. Listen to Elvis and Bach. Unless
you're tone deaf, own Perlman's "Meditation from Thais."
Don't look for hidden meanings in a cardinal's song.
Don't think TV characters talk to you; that's crazy.

Don't be too sane. Work hard. Loaf easily. Have good
friends, and be good to them. Be immoderate
in moderation. Spend little time anesthetized. Dive
the Great Barrier Reef. Don't touch the coral. Watch
for sea snakes. Smile for the camera. Don't say "Cheese."

Hello to everybody still visits my xanga... ... prolly more than i do lol ^^ j/k but yeah, just thought i'd update.

So, hope everybody's summer is swell! ^^ Praying for those @ missions...good luck to those in summer school and have fun to those working  

Anyways, reminder to self, need to catch up and keep some certain promises/appointments with some people... (wow, how time flies! its been how long...3-4 years? yeah...) Must make calls to SD people asap...esp. before a lot of them leave for No.Cal.... hm...but that would also make a great excuse for me go make a trip up there... ^^ seeing that i've never really explored that vicinity... hm...

Alright well...must cut short because sister wants the computer and I am being called for errand duty...great to know that i'm needed @ home... *sigh* Well then... until next time... CIAO~!

hey hey ^^ just a quick update... i know ... esp. the SD people out there.... those jokes about becoming a fob... are coming true! hehe i have a Cy... and for those that don't know what that is... its a korea based website thingy ... lol i guess i kinda don't know either... anyways... here's the addy:

http://www.cyworld.com/chyodahlee

come check it out... i have lots of pictures and i shall put more up as soon as my apartment gets its cable back. ^^ oh! and KUMCers... i shall see you this weekend ^^ hehe miss you guys sooooooooo much! ^^