passion | passion
May.17.2013
Flashback Fridays! I'm very much enjoying ruffling through the old crate of notebooks. These poems are better than a journal. Less minutiae, more emotional memory. This one goes back to late undergrad and speaks of a young man who is having a hard time wrangling someone he cares about. Poor...
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Apr.15.2013
Is there merit in unstructured time … what do you think? Is it only for children, is it a luxury, a waste, or an opportunity to shift perspectives, discover your passion, break the mould and loosen up your ideas of reality? I don’t see unstructured time being much encouraged, or its lovely...
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Mar.22.2013
Feel the passion! Sure, I do that without problem.
Don't I?
Release the passion!
Dude, no way.
Passion came to my attention between my dreams and my brush with Prince and Little Red Corvette.
I'm a circumspect sort of fellow, wary of opening up and sharing. I learned this...
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Mar.17.2013
One of the most energetic breeds, the German Shorthaired Pointer is a hunting dog by nature. When they lack in exercise they can become high strung, and frustrated. The GSP will not listen if they sense that they are stronger minded than their owner, however they...
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Mar.11.2013
Perhaps the greatest ancient book of strategy ever written was by one of the world's greatest swordsmen and warriors, Miyamoto Musashi. Born in imperial times of Japan, his work, The Book of Five Rings, is unarguably one of the most revered and studied books of strategy in the modern world. A...
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Feb.18.2013
I glance everywhere but in the one direction I want to look, that I’m desperate to look in. My eyes ricochet off the cars parked parallel on the roadside, to people clumped in their chatter around me, chatter that I'm lost in.
I look down at the scoria under me and notice my toes curled in my...
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Feb.01.2013
If you stick around long enough writing books and essays and giving talks, people come to you for advice.Very often, the requests I get turn on choices between alternate futures. Graduating students, youngish artists and activists, members of an older generation considering “encore” careers or...
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Jan.24.2013
I dislike morals and principles, especially when they're mine. My morals and principles are the worst.
I war with myself over them. They drive me and undermine me.
See, today there are meetings to which I'm invited. But I'm an optional attendee, a courtesy invitee to...
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Dec.12.2012
Fascinating novel with a telegraphed ending.
Laurel Nicolson is hiding from her family, savoring a few private moments. She has a secret; she is running away to London to become an actress and in love with the most exciting boy Laurel has ever met. Doubting that her happy, but boring parents would...
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Dec.10.2012
A coy peek sideways and I hope to catch your glance, or even better, your smile. You must not see me steal that look but then again, l want you to catch me watching you, for then you'll know.
You must know by now. My smiles and gestures, my hello waves. Surely they paint a masterpiece equivalent to...
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