10.02.2025

when you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling

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Book Review    Rating * * * *    Title: Life of Pi   Author:  Man Booker Prize-winning Canadian  Yann Martel   Published:  this novel was...
10.01.2025

the chance Of one sweet, mad, last hour

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Bending above the spicy woods which blaze,  Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun  Immeasurably far; the waters run  Too slow, so ...
9.30.2025

we ate lobster, drank piña coladas. At sunset, we made love like sea otters

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1. Who in your extended family makes you laugh the hardest and why?        my mom's next-younger sister, from whom I got my middle name....
9.28.2025

the challenge will not wait. Life does not look back

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The last 3 days have been unbelievable.  On Friday, I woke at (6:30 AM) and worked the usual time (7AM-3PM).       It was an especially stre...
9.26.2025

a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say

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More accurate than a Buzzfeed quiz; less accurate than your therapist’s raised eyebrow.  🤨   📚 Which Classic Book World Do You Belong In? ...
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9.24.2025

it is the darkest days I’ve learned to praise

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It is a goldfinch  one of the two    small girls, both daughters    of a friend,  sees hit the window    and fall into the fern.  No one hea...
9.23.2025

I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one

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1. Of all the gardening tools and gadgets you own, which one do you most enjoy using?       a tiny pair of gardening shears, maybe 3 inches ...
9.21.2025

it belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space

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11. Can you love someone without connection?       no, that doesn't make sense to me. From a distance there's admiration or infatuat...
9.20.2025

I pray to what you are not

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Out there, somewhere,  you are a variable  in the night's equation.    I listen hard  to the hands of smoke  moving beneath the river,  ...
9.19.2025

creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

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More accurate than a Buzzfeed quiz; less accurate than your therapist’s raised eyebrow. 🤨   🎨 What’s Your Creative Spark?   Everyone has ...
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9.18.2025

never had so much intelligence meant so little

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Book Review    Rating: * * *   Title:   Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA and   Enemies: A History of the FBI   Author:  Tim Weiner   ...
9.17.2025

keeping the terrible spirits at bay

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How long to grieve for the aspens, how long  for the father, half-paralyzed drugged up & pissing in  a plastic orange juice jug, & C...
9.16.2025

now ask yourself, are you really prepared? Uh!

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1. If you promised to never lie again in your lifetime, in what area would it be the hardest to uphold the promise?       white lies.    2. ...