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May.20.2009
May 21   CHOICE    Growth is my decision.  I don’t need conflict or catastrophe to bring me to change.  I choose each day, come what may, to roll out...
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May.20.2009
May 22   SOOT    I diligently work to remove the soot, the residue from the last time I tried to hot wire my brain.  When I attempted the short...
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May.20.2009
May 23 CLOCKS When the clock stops, I wind it up or replace the battery. I have to; time doesn’t end because the arms grow slow. The device wears...
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May.25.2009
May 24   CELEBRATIONS    “You wore a wrist corsage to the dump?” “You said to celebrate every activity,” I retorted to my sponsor. “Yes, by doing...
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May.25.2009
May 25   TROJAN PERSON     I feel confused by the difference between love and war.  The intensity and rush are too much for my frazzled and betrayed...
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May.26.2009
May 26   HOME TO HOPE   Shadows of doubt fall across my face on dark days and I have trouble finding my way home to hope.  Reliance on sunshine fails...
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May.27.2009
May 27   MEMORIAL DAY    Veteran of the addiction wars, I have scars but few medals.  I don’t need a purple heart, mine is black and blue.  I don’t...
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May.28.2009
May 28   NETWORKS      Testing my sponsor when I’m hurt is like probing for gas with a lit cigar in my mouth.  If I can’t find a way to douse the...
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May.29.2009
May 29    POWER    When power arrives, it comes complete with blindfold, mask and lullaby.  I am blinded to what effect I have.  Others cannot see me...
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May.30.2009
May 30   FROZEN STRAWBERRIES    “I have them in the freezer,” I tell my sponsor. “I’m sure you do.  When are you going to take them out and reenact...
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Jun.06.2009
I met the first nightmare during the day on the beach. Abominable! People use this word without knowing what it really means. Look up the word and...
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Jun.06.2009
A change of venue: At the Mosque he holds his empty glowing pen in the left hand, scribbling the visions and spells of prophets and madmen in the...
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Jun.11.2009
In the desert late one Tuesday night, when the temperature had dropped well below freezing, lived a camel. This particular camel on this particular...
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Jun.13.2009
MAD
Mad is a gas car from the old times when humans ruled the earth with a nuclear fist. He's been retrofitted with the latest AI technology courtesy of...
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Jun.14.2009
From defiant clouds raindrops the size of dogs chase raindrops the size of cats down to the ground, where they end up together as friends in puddles...
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Jul.14.2009
It all started so well... the sights, the scenes, the music, the people, and the skies. My God, the skies above Paris, above Mont St. Michel, above...
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Jul.20.2009
tHERe is aN aLmoSt suRreal eFfecT on The sEnses When sLeEp is DeNieD you wHilE trAVElliNg And then there is that moment of clarity when the on and...
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Sep.21.2009
The old storyteller raises his gnarled hands to the red sky and the fighting stops briefly. He turns to PD Allen and says, "I'm glad you felt...
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Apr.06.2010
old poems carved by firelight into the cave wall don't remain. dancing flames lick the paint, drying the dying messages again. at ceremony's end, the...
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Apr.25.2010
For sale: Slightly used left shoes, No longer required since the operation, Size 9½ men’s shoes of various makes, Suitable for those who have no...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.