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May.17.2012
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May.15.2012
You know it's a bad day when your computer recognition program doesn't recognize you. Frankly, I don't blame mine. How shocked it must have been this morning to see the me sitting in front of it, googly glasses, hair like wire, face like putty, eyes watery. I didn't even recognize myself.
"Who the...
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Apr.11.2012
As a framed rendition of reality, a painting is an approximation of a place and a time that may, or may not, have existed. What I see in a painting is not real. It may represent a place or a person but it is not the place and it proves nothing but the person - the painter, and his skill at...
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Apr.04.2012
I know inside my eyelids
and underneath my skin
from Burning Oneself Out, Adrienne Rich
Save Yourself; Remember Nothing
Memory is heavy: stones on the eyes, a flattening the light to dark brown
A blink shutters the thing we didn't mean to see or remember but hangs a sty in every...
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Mar.14.2012
Light-Brite, paper dolls, fashion plates, play-doh, Major Morgan, finger paints, and a wooden doll family that my father made me—these are childhood toys that I remember with fondness. I’m certain there are many that I’m leaving out, some that I’ve forgotten.
On Saturday we went to a toy show. We’...
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Mar.02.2012
A Facebook friend posted that he has gone running for 425 days straight, logging in a whopping 4,463 miles. In response, his Japanese friend wrote this comment:
素晴らしい継続力ですね。Wonderful ability to stick to it!
素晴らしい (すばらしい: wonderful); 継続力 (けいぞくりょく: stick-to-it-ness)
The word 継続力 arrested me, and...
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Feb.27.2012
Beneath the tides of sleep and timeStrange fish are moving!
Thomas Wolfe
I’ve been back in the region of my childhood for three years. There were a few times, those first years, when I came back for several months at a time before leaving again. But, I’ve never...
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Feb.21.2012
There is no such thing as a permanent monument for a man who was once living; just as there is no such thing as a permanent life. Heavy slabs of marble outlast bodies of flesh and bone, but not by much. Stone cracks and crumbles and names fade away, as do the memories of the named themselves....
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Feb.03.2012
This moment in time has been brought to you by Kellogg's. Kellogg's, the best to you each morning.
The typing is sponsored by IBM Smarter Planet, but this is a Stroh's Beer Moments In Thinking. Stroh's Beer sponsors an hour of my personal thinking every day. Maxwell House sponsors my first fifteen...
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