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What I’ve learned of importance in 2007

by Brooke Palmer

photos by Heather Croxton


Charismatic leaders really can turn people into sheep.

Tires bought in Texas perform horribly on the icy streets of the Midwest in the winter.
ht in Texas perform horribly on the icy streets of the Midwest in the winter. Fredericksburg, TX, is an evil town.
Fredericksburg, TX, is an evil town. 

Turning 30 is fun.
 

Not all friends are capable of meeting our expectations.
 

Even progressive companies will use Bush-like tactics to manipulate its employees into a false sense of improved morale.
 

It’s easier to give money than time.
 

Time does not heal all wounds.
 

Building creative alliances is a great way to self promote.

Advertising can be traded rather than bought or sold. 

The people who work at Emo’s in 
Austin are arrogant assholes.
 

People with brain injuries are clearly incapable of changing certain behavioral patterns.
 

Weak, spineless leaders are in many ways more difficult to work with than dictatorial leaders.
 

Ambition and confidence can make the accomplishment of certain goals seem easy.

I have “an aggressive single-mindedness that can be both a strength and a weakness.”

 Pessimism is realism in the analysis of our country’s education system. All state departments of education are not created equally. Emotional stress and discontent is a very powerful health hazard.

I tend to “burn the candle at both ends.”

 

In the midst of emotional crisis, a woman is capable of tearing down a sturdy, wooden fence barehanded.

 

The edges of the Texas Hill Country are being overtaken by San Antonio’s housing developments and strip malls.

 

A loved one really can leave this Earth in the blink of an eye.

 

Not all PG-13 movies are designed to market consumer goods to ‘tweens.

 

Gender socialization is such a strong trap that it’s easier for feminist mothers to fall into than to fight against.

 

“The Wire” is the best television series of all time.

 

Most doctors don’t take the time to ask the right questions.

 

The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), used to evaluate and diagnose a person’s mental health, is as simplistic and flawed as any multiple-choice test designed to label and stratify people using minimal brainpower or intuition.

 

Overcoming creative differences in order to build or foster a collaboration helps a person better understand their own strengths and weaknesses (as well as tests the strength of a friendship).


Transitioning from a two-cat to a three-cat household doubles the chores, the stress, the stink, the mess, and the sleepless nights. 

Finding a good home for orphaned cats is nearly impossible in 
San Antonio.
 

Some neighbors grow more tolerant over time.
 

According to my grandfather, more people in the world are killed by bureaurocrats than wars; “I can’t prove it, but I know it’s true.”
 

A young female entertainer must take off her clothes to make it in the business:
Example: Avril Lavigne. I have never liked her pop-crap songs and have always recognized her heavy-make-up pseudo-punk persona as somewhat commercial, but amidst the many harlots in her entertainer peer group, her confident and somewhat androgynous image in music videos stood out to me as less offensive if not positive in comparison to the materialistic and sexually-implicit gals that dominate pre-teen to teenage fan-base. But she recently took off her shirt for magazine covers and put on corsets and fishnets in her latest music video, letting all young female fans know what it takes to be a woman of popularity.
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