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I'm surprised and charmed at the restraint the media has shown in this rapture business. The sources i've read have found the fun in it without ridiculing the faithful outright.
I can just barely remember a time when i was little and my parents - or maybe just mom went to a religious weekend retreat. Pretty sure it was Walk to Emmaus, whatever ( Read more... ) -
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I couldn’t remember if I was supposed to be there at one or two so I tried all morning to call my mom’s pre-paid cell phone but of course it was off. In recent years I’ve grown increasingly sensitive to those who endure this holiday each year without their mothers. In 2004 it was Kevin, last year it was Dwayne, this year it’s Charlie and my own ( Read more... ) -
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Oh my god am i boring on Facebook. I did one of those year-end amalgamater things and couldn't even finish reading it. I've no delusion that i'm more exciting here, but i'm certainly more comfortable. I'd never forsake you, El Jay ( Read more... ) -
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I remember that 2008 was rotten to a lot of people. Eight being my lucky number, it was better than average for me. 2010 however, has been brutal. One forsaken friendship, one lost nephew and one departed grandma. I suppose it is a year of loss ( Read more... ) -
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
Went to the Movies & Mimosa showing of The Godfather this morning and it was good medicine. Most enjoyable thing i've done in a week. Thanks to the marathon virtually annexing my neighborhood each year and the beautiful weather, i biked which is always my intention for Bow-Tie ( Read more... ) -
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Last night I was up crazy late for no reason at all. It’s always been difficult to go to bed before Kevin gets home so maybe I hoped he’d come in late but he spent the night at Sherando Lake, the lucky bastard ( Read more... ) -
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10PM bike rides to Barnes & Noble remind me of my first bike ride from the hubhaus to Willow Lawn. “Whaddaya mean it only took me 12 minutes to get here? I wanted to go for a RIDE!” Funny, before that I’d always thought of the Willow Lawn area as a “car errand.” From the new house to B&N takes 19 minutes; that’s a little better but I thought B& ( Read more... ) -
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The best CNN story of the day is suddenly unavailable from every link i've tried. I wonder if it's some crazy censorship. In the piece, Sanjay Gupta tours an orphanage that's run out of food and they're going to feed 50 kids on one pot of beans. Gupta makes a call and a friend with a truck pulls up to a giant warehouse 3 miles away that has ( Read more... ) -
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Last week Kevin discovered constellations in the sand. It was so beautiful, all i could do was whisper "I didn't think the world could show me anything new."
