A happier tale.

After ten years of near misses, I *finally* got to meet Duncan in person. :-)


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First, yesterday's celebrational Tolkien entry, now with pictures! :-)

And for today, inspired by happy news of milestones from friends this past weekend and these past few weeks, a tale on similar vein, a long time in coming. The story of two good friends and what I did with the proverbial very first day of the rest of my life...

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Redirect here.

As I understand the tradition, it is the best man's duty (and privelege) to offer the toast...


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Another silly entry written on my laptop as I sat around various airport terminals:

Snapshots from a Social: September 2006, Toledo DFS


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With their kind permission to post photos, snapped out between manuscripts and ward duty, a all-too brief recalling of a happy weekend past. As always, the thumbnails expand. :-)The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of time. But on a bright May afternoon this past weekend, under a ( Read more... )

Since I helped run three livers in two days the previous Friday/Saturday, my partners generously let me have this first Friday evening since the start of Transplant free. And so I had just enough time to whip my jacket on and rush down to Cafe Felix several blocks away. By 6:45 our cozy little gather was in full swing...

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The storm clouds roiled. A burst even of lightning lit the sky. And framed before that background, the blinking lights rising high of what was still the second tallest, fastest roller coaster ever built by men, four hundred and twenty feet of sky-fingering steel spire. Strapped in to my right was resonance42, who, well, adrenaline and him are old, old ( Read more... )

Just too. Damn. Busy. But have an anniversary, this coming Sunday, which deserves celebrating. And so, a few days early, here is this story. :-)


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I'll choose this moment and keep it,
He said to himself, for a vow,
To remember for ever and ever
As if it were always now.


- Laurence Binyon

Autumn, four years agoAll around me were books, up and up throughout the sunny atrium where I pulled up a seat to wait. A little before four in the afternoon in the Borders bookstore in Friendship Heights it ( Read more... )