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    Scattered Thoughts from a Scattered Mind: Volume V the Road Home
    Scattered Thoughts from a Scattered Mind: Volume V the Road Home
    Scattered Thoughts from a Scattered Mind: Volume V the Road Home
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    Scattered Thoughts from a Scattered Mind: Volume V the Road Home

    By David Mills

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    Howard Doss "Tuffy" Thompson
    October 15, 1951 - January 24, 2015
    Gone but not forgotten.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateOct 30, 2015
    ISBN9781514420713
    Scattered Thoughts from a Scattered Mind: Volume V the Road Home
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    David Mills

    David Mills has worked in the field of pneumatic conveying for over forty years. From 1998 – 2006 he was Professor of Bulk Solids Handling at Glasgow Caledonian University. He has published over 170 papers in the field, and has been working as an independent consultant in pneumatic conveying since 1996.

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      Scattered Thoughts from a Scattered Mind - David Mills

      Copyright © 2015 by David Mills.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Rev. date: 10/28/2015

      Front Cover Photo by:

      Crystal Howes-Schultz Photography

      Back Cover Photo by:

      Michael Brookins

      Xlibris

      1-888-795-4274

      www.Xlibris.com

      727571

      Contents

      FOREWORD

      For Tina

      Finally Here

      This Just In

      Thirty

      Luminosity

      West of Unknown

      BAE

      For Bill and Kathie (Part III)

      Evening; In The Land of Long Ago

      Two Stories; One Ruth

      For Barbara Allen

      For McKennedy at 17

      For Beth

      Reboot

      Split

      Good-Time Charlie

      Untitled

      Somewhere It’s Raining

      After Party

      Saving Daylight

      You

      Seeing Things

      Speed Racer

      Protocol

      Something

      Forgiveness

      44 (and so much more)

      Easter

      25

      Stories

      Girl In The Window

      How So Can Love?

      Two Minute Warning

      A Word to Those Now Missed

      Love Jones

      65

      Spring Cleaning

      Altered Version

      You Only Love Me For My Jeep

      Asunder

      Diligence or Damage

      Secrets

      Chesapeake

      17

      Things I Learned at Work Today

      The Prayer of Authority

      Things I Learned From The Old Testament

      Rules

      Mama

      This Night

      Maude Lynne and Pollyanna

      Album

      The Lady of The House

      Independent Life

      The Distance to Go

      Book of Business

      Wager

      The Road Home

      Joke

      The End

      Just Reward

      Fearless

      Stitch Count

      Dear Mr. Johnson,

      Rita the Meter Maid

      A Horse

      Why?

      Next Door

      The Simulation Game

      THE GUEST ROOM

      Doing Right by Richard Parham

      A Perfect Gift by Richard Parham

      Never Let a Good Blow by Richard Parham

      The Words by Richard Parham

      Untitled by Sandra Taylor

      For Uncle Tim by Sandra Taylor

      Springfield by Kristen Carlisle

      Asunder by Kristen Carlisle

      Daddy Superhero by N.M. Reeves

      Liberal America by N.M. Reeves

      The Beginning of Us by N.M. Reeves

      The Old Writer by N.M. Reeves

      Senses by N.M. Reeves

      The King Who Drank His Crown by N.M. Reeves

      Those Without a Home by N.M. Reeves

      Asunder by N.M. Reeves

      A Life Well Lived by N.M. Reeves

      62…Who Are You? by Gloria Elsw

      Count Your Treasures by Charlene Jones

      A Brand New Day by Charlene Jones

      Dream by Charlene Jones

      Big Sandy River by Charlene Jones

      April by Charlene Jones

      To Be a Friend by Charlene Jones

      Love is Like a River by Charlene Jones

      As Linda Would Say To Jim by Charlene Jones

      Rainbows by Charlene Jones

      Life by Charlene Jones

      Just Think by Charlene Jones

      Go Forward by Charlene Jones

      Recipe For a New Life by Charlene Jones

      For My Son, Timothy by Charlene Jones

      Growing Old by Charlene Jones

      For Howard (My Dad’s Friend) by Michael Mills

      AFTERWORD

      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

      This volume is dedicated to the memory of

      Howard Doss Tuffy Thompson

      We put it into the wind my friend,

      and let the ass end slide.

      Yes we did.

      And I, as you, have only God above

      and His uncompromising saving grace

      to thank for our renewal,

      our redemption.

      "Out on the road today,

      I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac,

      A little voice inside my head said,

      Don’t look back, you can never look back"

      Don Henley The Boys of Summer 1984

      Alone, she stood naked on the cliff.

      The opening sentence of the

      Great American Novel

      Richard Parham hasn’t written…

      (yet).

      Foreword

      Hello and welcome to installment number five of Scattered Thoughts.

      I know many people have said, Why not think up new names for these collections as you go?

      Something fresh, they said. Something different.

      Others, however, have coined phrases like:

      Always go with what you know.

      The tried and true works well.

      If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

      And my personal favorite…

      Just be patient, Miley will call one day.

      As you can see, I have decided to go with Suggestion Group II….who knows, maybe she will call.

      Since last we spoke, I have suffered the loss of my dear friend, Howard Thompson. This is heavy on my heart as we buried him just yesterday. Many who attended said it was the best funeral they had ever attended and the packed house applauded at the end of it. It was the only funeral I’ve ever attended (and there have been a few,..oh yes) where this happened.

      So as Bill Murray would say, "He’s got that going for him!"

      As for me, I have again

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