h d duke

p o box 375
tangent, oregon 97389

My E-Mail Address's: daleduke1@home.com

Objective: Plan Less, Worry Less...Do More.

Experience:
1965-67: Starfires. Played lead guitar.
1967-68: 6-Pak. Lead guitar.
1968-69: Pink Noise. Lead Guitar.
1970: Canary. Shared lead with Bill Wagoner.
1971: Last Anthem. Guitar with Bill Wagoner.
1971-72: Backwood. With Wally Heil, Jerry Wilson, Greg Humbert, Bill Wagoner and Me.
1974: Casey Vale Band
disco hits...I stop........
1971...Hitch-hike to Oregon and back with Charley Tanner.
1974...Hitch-hike alone to Colorado and back.
1978...Hitch-hike thru Scotland, England and Wales.
1987...moved to Oregon to manage Roberts Seed. Quit in conflict with K. Gillespie.
1988...Go to work for Northrup King. Still with same management staff...thru a few re-incarnations.

Published Writer and Poet:
Pablo Lennis, "The Pull of Time" 1998
Pablo Lennis, "Bare Back Rider" 1998
Georgian Blue Poetry Anthology, "Stone Swimming" 2000
Skunk's Press, "The Lawnmower" 1999
Altered Perceptions, "Damn I Am" 1998
Altered Perceptions, "The Town of Piedras" 1999

I am now working on a collection of stories about growing up in Indiana...something I have failed to do elsewhere...

hdduke

WHAT I HAVE TAUGHT MY CHILDREN


1. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.

2. Hope is the best of all things.

3. Tabasco is good stuff.

4. Use your legs when shooting a basketball.

5. If you want to play, listen to the coach.

6. Time is more valuable than money.

7. If you can have anything you wish for, wish for health. Nothing else matters.

8. The most important goal in your life is to be happy.

9.If you are getting beaten badly, try a different strategy.

10. If you have money sooner or later you will amount to something. I have a friend that disagrees with this.

11. The more things you own the less time you will have.

12. A nap is a noble thing...they keep you in touch with your dreams.

13. Your values will pick you. Honor them.

14. Good ideas occasionally fail.

15. Life is not fair.

16. When a person complains they often have a valid point.

17. Anyone who works 10-12 hrs. a day at a job they can't stand is a damn fool.

18. Don't read books on how to raise children unless you want them to grow up like the author.

19. You must make enough money to live. The trick is to know when you have enough and how much to live.

20. If you don't enjoy getting there why go?

21. If you do not dream something is wrong.

22. If you cannot learn from an idiot, you are missing the point.

23. Do not be afraid to love. Whether it works out or not depends on who you become, not who you are now.

24. There are two times in each day...when the sun is up and when the sun is down.

25. Some people will do things for you...you can never re-pay. You honor them by
remembering them.

26. In most cases, the more times you look at your watch, the less fun you are having.

27. I have reservations about any creature with more than 4 legs.

28. There are 7 holes in your head. Learn to use them wisely.

29. The more you plan to have a good time the less likely it is to happen.

30. Weather makes science look foolish.

31. Bad luck tends to run in streaks.

32. For every person that owns a truck...three other people borrow it.

33. Close friends are extremely rare. It usually takes 10 years to figure out if someone is your close friend.

34. Your parents gave you a name. You gave it meaning.

35. It is possible to have 3 separate flat tires in one day.

36. Their is nothing wrong with video games. Their is nothing wrong with drinking. If you do either 24 hrs. a day...their IS something wrong.

37. Avoid excess.

38. What makes a fence so beautiful is that it has a gate.

39. Vacations should start the day after work...not right after work.

40. Perspective makes right and wrong difficult to figure out.

41. I can't figure out if butterfly's really know how to fly or not. They sure look like they need lessons.

42. Having money is false security.

43. Being healthy is a gift. Being happy requires some work.

44. A bird will eat less than a cat but a cat can eat the bird.

45. To understand the 60's...well...you had to be there.

46. Fast food is expensive.

47. When business is slow, employee's seem lazy.

48. Supervisors have feelings too.

49. If you can define the problem, you can fix it.

50. Why do we build cars that can acheive speeds twice that of any posted speed limit?

51. Whenever you forget your camera, you will wish you had it. Whenever you have it you take dumb pictures.

52. Even famous people had to take out the garbage.

53.When a new law in Kansas stated that it was o.k. for ministers to carry guns to church my daughter said "I thought God took care of them." I told her he just helps with their aim.

55. Even people that love each other sometimes cannot stand to be around each other.

56. Sometimes love cannot overcome unhappiness. The hardest lesson of all is to realize you need someone more than they need you.

57. Smart and wise are completely different angles on intelligence. One is practical and one is spiritual.

58. A career is a job you take seriously. Having a job that makes you happy pays double.

59. Very hot days make people irritable. Hot and humid days make people very irritable.

60. Just because you have enough to eat does not mean you should not be more assertive. Muddy up the pond once a year, then back off. When you have something to say people will definitely listen.

61. It's dangerous to make hero's out of people you have never spent time with...their is a chance someday you will meet them and be very disappointed.

63. Computer games are athletics for the new age. Baseball prepares you for the possibility of the new age failing.

64. Basketball will outlive Michael Jordan. Such mastery of a sport makes people disdain his accomplishments. Such mastery of a sport makes him disdain the opinions of others.

65. A wish is the first step to the realization of a goal.

66. There is more joy in buying a weight bench than using it.

67. Knowing right from wrong only allows you to make a choice.

68. When we realize we have faults we can quickly find reasons why we have them.

69. You can graduate from school without ever learning anything.

70. Sleep is not a waste of time. It's life on a different level.

71. When time passes quickly you are probably getting a lot done.

72. When you are 25 years old and still have a favorite blanket, you have found one of lifes pleasures.

73. Pets teach you how to communicate without words.

74. Women like horses more than men.

75. The more rules their are the less happy a place it is to be in.

76. We must learn to adapt to what is neccessary. Its obvious that as problems arise and technology or spiritual teachings answer these, we must be prepared to change how we do things. It is very hard.

77. We all die, but not totally. We mix with the living. Our portrait is one face with many souls.

78. Everyone should have some understanding of the universe the way science sees it. We should also have a spiritual view of the cosmos. Perhaps their is a conflict, or perhaps not. It is a personal thing.

79. Find joy in life and pass it on to your children.

80. Bumping your knee on wood hurts, bumping your knee on steel hurts worse.

81. Forgetting is good for the individual and bad for a corporation.

82. Fear is a great motivater...though it leaves its victor's vigilant. Security is a great motivater...those that possess it look forward to the future and see needs that are tended to before they become a problem.

83. Pay attention to detail, like good drinking water, school systems, and open minds... before you decide to live in a place.

84. Good salesman sell you what you need. Good salesman will sell you what you want. Some will sell you on what has been sold to them. I wish the latter were all dressed in red so I could tell them apart.

85. If it's work...start 10 minutes early...if its fun, stop 10 minutes late.

86. Fish swim in a river because that is where they live. I swim in a chlorinated pool because I can.

87. Paradigm shifts have a lot to do with convenience. Convenience is a pre-cursor of needless necessity. When their are too many needless necessities...a lot of people are working for minimum wage...without necessities.

88. Sometimes enough is not enough.

89. There will come a time when you have to stand against someone and you will not be afraid because you have had enough. There will come a time when you have to stand against someone when you are scared but you do it because it is the right thing to do. For the most part you should walk away from confrontations. You will know when it is time to stand.

90. Parents should be careful when kids get into a fight. Parents can stay mad for years over it. The kids will be playing together the next day.

91. Running away from problems is like jumping on a trampoline. You keep coming back down. They are there waiting for you.

92. Making the right decision is not always the first decision. Thats why its a good idea to admit your wrong as soon as possible.

93. Sometimes life is like a road map. It can be very easy to find the right roads. Sometimes we get lost but manage to find our way back. Sometimes we have to ask for
directions. A lot of folks don't like to ask directions....even when they need gas and have to go to the bathroom.

94. Television is a waste of time. Its o.k. to waste time occasionally. In fact until you do what you really love, its all wasting time.

95. I think their should be business cards for good people. They should say something like..."Dale Duke...Nice Guy."

96. Before you are sure you want to have kids...sit next to them in a restaurant.

97. Some people live their life for money. Some people live their lives on principle. They seldom mix well.

98. If it gives me comfort to put on a coat when it is cold, or eat when I am hungry...then it also gives me comfort to believe death is not the end.

99. If you can worry half as much, about half as many things as I have, you are on the right track to happiness.

100. When playing basketball or baseball you must remember to respect the field. Whining or complaining degrades the beauty of the sport. You cannot help how your parents act. Try to ignore them during the game. Listen to them afterwards. Do what you feel is right.