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• Wetsuits, LA, Rashes, and Pneumonia

  March 4, 2011

  People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the…

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• A Week’s Worth of Events

  February 18, 2011

  Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov I love Anton Chekhov. Things have been busy and dull at the same time. The rash continues to improve. The oral steroids they gave me really helped take away the itch. However, it created an insomniac. I’...

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• Rashes and Whining

  February 13, 2011

  Life is simple, it's just not easy. ~Author Unknown   Last night I resorted to sleeping with ice packs to get the itching under control. I think I finally fell asleep around 2 am. I woke up at 6 and decided I was going back to the doctor this morning, as the steroid shot from…

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• Birthdays, Drama and Life

  February 12, 2011

  Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Anderson   I have lived in this neighborhood for 2 and a half years and our block is almost completely filled. The empty lot across the street has been built on and the house is in it’s fin...

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• Lenin, Races and Swooning

  January 2, 2009

   “When I am. . . Completely myself, entirely alone. . . Or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these come I know not nor can I force them. . . Nor do I hear in my imagination the…

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• Sex Dreams And Nicknames

  December 5, 2008

    “True creativity often starts where language ends.” ~Arthur Koestler  To fully understand the conversation between Lenin, Rusty and myself on Friday, you need some background information. There are two bits of information that are needed. The first bit came from when ...

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• We Don’t Talk To The Bitches Here . . .

  November 12, 2008

    To live content with small means; To seek elegance rather than luxury; And refinement rather than fashion; To be worthy, not respectable; and Wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think Quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen To stars and birds, to babes and sages, With open heart; to bea...

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• We’re Going In The Wrong Direction . .

  November 9, 2008

   “One must not lose desires. They are might stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.” ~Alexander A. Bobomoletz Well, today was good so far. The table man is coming in two and a half hours to pick up my table. He is suppose to fix the scratches in it that the movers ...

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• People Notice When You Smile . . .

  November 8, 2008

  “Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity, easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting-- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one’s own experience and sensations, to make one’s self h...

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