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Apr.29.2013
April 29
Would You Rather a Lamp?
I am a girl filled with expectations. Like a ginger jar filled, stuffed caulker block full, though the filling is the part which is unpredictable; it could be match books, or seashells, acorns or all those pretty...
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Mar.30.2013
Hello everyone. Today’s post focuses on you, my readers. You‘ve made it through a rough winter, and soon, instead of wearing a heavy coat while outside, you will be wearing suntan oil instead, as you frolic on the beach! But what is going on inside your body – specifically your mind...
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Feb.27.2013
February 27
Adjustment
The chase is on, round and round it goes and where it stops no one knows. I run after control and change as I grasp, but can never quite get my fingers wrapped around the thing. An open fist is an adjustment; no fist at all would...
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Feb.24.2013
Bernhard Schlink's collection of stories, Summer Lies, is always gracefully written but not always compelling because too many key characters, plots, and themes are borderline trivial or simply trivialized.
In the first story, "After the Season," an accomplished...
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Dec.17.2012
December 17
POPCORN FLAVORED LOLLIPOP
I can’t know it. I can’t believe it. The world of popcorn flavored lollipops is now being visited upon me. Both a surprise and a comfort, a popcorn flavored lollipop is given to me by the gas station attendant....
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Nov.28.2012
Thinking about what to do and what not to do this morning, and what needed to be done and what had to be done but hadn't been doing but which I could do nothing except worry, my mind issued a stern reminder, "Don't panic." I immediately thought, yeah; that's today's mantra.
Urges to...
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Nov.04.2012
November 4
CONTROL
I have everything in the world but control and yet it seems to be the only thing I yearn for. Past history has made it difficult for me to have faith and I have clung to scraps of control as an alternative. I have hope but I have hope in...
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Oct.10.2012
October 10
ALSO A GIFT
Sadness is as life affirming as joy, but in the same way that people eat together but defecate alone, joy is encouraged in public and sadness is a private matter. Happiness is embraced and discouragement relegated, even though personal...
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Sep.01.2012
September 1
ORIGAMI
I fold my reality like origami, each day a shape to suit my whim. A dog when I feel like begging. A horse when I want to trot away. A pot to brew up some potion. A penguin when I feel cold and I stand on my egg all day. I...
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Jul.26.2012
There are some pithy observations here about Kafka's pithy observations as regards the ways of men and the world. Kafka knew the nightmare world of government and corporate bureaucracies because he spent most of his working life within a combination of both. He was a star lawyer for a quasi...
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