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Sep.18.2012
A sense of being involves a degree of separateness from the rest of the world. After all, the verb to “exist” literally means to stand out. When you are present, your awareness of your own existence happens on the backdrop of time. Time is really just perception of change, of...
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Sep.07.2012
One of the highlights of my writing career (and this is no exaggeration) was the day I saw a teen-aged boy reading the paperback edition of my novel at a bus stop. Happily he exhibited no furtiveness.
Books are to be ever-threatened by visual stimulations (which gives me some pause about "...
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Aug.30.2012
The Writing Day yesterday didn't exist. I'm on the vacation treadmill, driving down, checking into the hotel, meeting with friends. My wife has a shopping agenda.
She apologized to me on the drive down. She wants this to be a vacation for me and she knows it becomes less so as friends hear of our...
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Aug.20.2012
Wrote four blog posts today. Deleted four blog posts without sharing them. Trying to understand myself, again. I can never fully understand myself. I see pieces. Most seem to fit but a few pieces seem to be missing.
So I'm forced to look around but I'm not sure what the pieces look like. I could...
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Aug.16.2012
Time:a pie slicedinto manysections and moods.
I becomewarmed up,
the morningraces by,
I settle into a flowand just then—there is no more.
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Aug.14.2012
Thinking about ideas and a short in progress, I began thinking of currency, the means of exchange.
Does every relationship have its own currency? I think it does. Currency is about have the means of exchange to acquire what you need. Goods, services...emotions...validation...love...sex....
We...
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Aug.13.2012
Printing out "Peerless" was not the easy task imagined when I decided to resurrect it. I found the printed copy and the original notebooks where I wrote it, each labeled, numbered, and dated but not the electronic file. The electronic file was what I desired. After looking in the 'libraries' and...
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Aug.13.2012
"Sometimes we're all too quick to count down the days, that we forget to make the days count."~ Unknown
This quote struck me today as I prepare to start a new school year. It's been a challenging few years, but I realize that wishing the time to pass is no way to live.
If I constantly look ahead,...
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Jul.27.2012
Mom always said, “once you hit 30, time goes really really fast.” Well, maybe she only said it a few times, but DAMN IT, she wasn’t kidding!
It’s like a rollercoaster. You go CLICK, CLICK, CLICK steadily and slowly up the incline of life, and then BING! BAM! WOOOSH!...
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Jul.13.2012
Nighttime, after the locusts hushed, and the only summer sounds were crickets singing love songs, the rustling of scavengers scratching through scorched leaves...we would lay back in the pokey grass and lose ourselves in the blackened night sky. Why was it such a thrill to find...
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