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May.17.2013
May 17
Underoos
Why is it that I store undies I never wear in my panty drawer and leave no room for my favorites? Why is it that I have things in cupboards that have not seen the light of day in years, but they are kept as sacred? I don’t use my...
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Apr.28.2013
April 28
Perkiomenville
Being actually alive does not feel as good as I imagined the relief of being dead would feel and therefore I have anxiety and dread, or is it disappointment. I feel like a failure when I am in the process of trying and I want to throw the...
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Mar.28.2013
[DE - June 2008]
I visit wharves and gaze out to sea.
It is a pleasure which took hold of me some ten years ago. I don't know why, for I certainly had experience with oceans and coast long before that. For some things it seems its time just comes.
I prefer small working ports, gritty...
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Mar.25.2013
It was Mark Nepo who observed, “Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.”
I have spent the greater part of my life worrying about my destination…where the flight of my life was taking me…instead of giving my attention to this day…and how to fly.
Does it ever seem to you...
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Mar.13.2013
My six PM meeting was pushed back to seven PM. What to do, what to do? Well, my Beers on Brain group meets at 5 PM. Why not go have a couple beers and then hit the meeting.
Sounds...like...a....plan.
I've long expressed admiration for this group, made of of mostly retired...
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Dec.09.2012
December 9
CLIMBING ON THE ARC
If time swings and the seasons swirl and I pulse out my existence, why does the bird's wing flap and the rain fall down? If the song comes from my mother’s lips and my father tells his tales and I dance my heritage with each step I...
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Oct.07.2012
Just a vague thought.
I was talking with a barrista about art and realized that I didn't know my mother for a long time.
Yes, she gave birth to me and I lived with her for years, depending on her for my food, health and security. But I didn't know her. It wasn't until I moved away and didn't see...
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Jul.24.2012
July 24
WAKE
Don’t worry that you might spoil the procession by getting out of your coffin. You don’t need to lie there waiting for the lid to close. People will walk past saying, “so sad,” and “too bad,” but don’t lie in state to keep them from feeling their trip...
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Apr.26.2012
I won't go as far as to say that these authors make me seem to be a Pollyanna (and how many know that reference, per the comment of Harlan Ellison). In fact, I might indeed fit right into their ranks (move over Garrison Keillor). However, I will still smile favourably upon a Nobel Prize (well...
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Apr.22.2012
Strangely, despite some things that happened, I decided last week was a great week.
How do you decide whether something went well? Yes, the overall outcome, and how you feel at the end, but also the means along the way. In our daily, weekly, and monthly 'games of life', we don't have a final...
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