Thursday, November 2, 2006
Goodbye, and Good Luck
Hopefully you have all been well this past month. I am posting to notify you all of my permanent departure from Blogit. As I first predicted when I returned here, my stay was brief. Nevertheless, it was an honor to be among all of you, even if for a short time. Having the chance to read your posts,...
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Saturday, October 7, 2006
Third
It's been three days since my last post. Going so long without writing here seems strange to me, but the intervening days have found little in the way of resolution. I think I just need to get a good night's rest, as I haven't been sleeping much (sometimes not at all) for the past few weeks, and it...
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006
My friend has been ABDUCTED, so why isn't anyone doing anything to help?
First, I want you all to know this is not a joke nor a ploy. I am going to try to write logically, but I am so angry, sad and frightened right now, you will have to excuse any incoherency. The other day, I was talking with a friend of mine that I haven't spoken with in a while. Our conversation...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Words serve two purposes: to remember, and to forget
My friend once decided that most conversations people have can be pooled into three broad categories: 1) "Do you want to be my friend?" 2) "Yes." 3) "No." Usually, the second two are in response to the first question. After she first proposed her theory to me, I listened carefully to the way people...
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Sunday, October 1, 2006
ODE TO THE CAPS LOCK
When WE ARE tired and groggy from a long, hard day of work, or simply just waking up, caps lock is our constant and ever present companion. Sure, sometimes it get's stuck, both up and down, but we forgive its shortcomings because it gives us the opportunity of MAKING such boon of thought, and it...
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A Stately Color in the Grotto
I had a lot of trouble sleeping last night. I kept getting too hot or too cold, then tossing, then turning, thinking about things that have long since passed me by and about the week to come. Eventually, I gave up on trying the bed and, instead of doing something productive, I grabbed my cover and...
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Saturday, September 30, 2006
The Waves like Cliffs Sometimes Still Fall
"Please help me!" the man was shouting. I looked up quickly from laying down the blanket on the beach and saw him, laying on his stomach in the shallows of the water, waves throwing up over him and then receding in an irrepressible way that sometimes still frightens me. His daughter stood on the...
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Friday, September 29, 2006
Have you ever waited for the crooked path to become straight?
I find it mesmerizing, sometimes, to think about how, in ten, twenty or forty years, I will be able to look back and follow the path that my life has taken. The future is always nebulous and uncertain. Any time I try to predict the way things are going to go, I invariable get one detail wrong (or...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
An Apology to TAPS...and a Warning!!
Taps asked me to translate this scene for her, but, unfortunately, it is far beyond my meager skills. There is a lot of specialized vocabulary that I would need a dictionary of hieroglyphs to look up (a dictionary I don't have yet). That is the apology part. I quickly scanned through and translated...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
The Perfect End to a Long Job
I can still see it hanging in the air, my hands waiting to catch it as I had so many times before. It hung, perhaps an imperceptible moment too long, and my hands clasped on the floam - a little too late. Part of it hurtled towards my shirt, and in order to keep the entire floam pancake I had made...
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