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Housing PSA
Putting this out there, just to see what happens ( Read more... ) -
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Officially single. My relationship with the girlfriend has been dying a slow and drawn-out death by neglect for months now, but it has finally drawn it's last, cracking breath and expired.
I'm a little sad. -
State of the Lisa
I've been friending new people, and I suppose that means I need to get this thing up to date again. So, without further ado here's what I'm up to lately:
Living
Yes, I am alive. And damn happy about it.
More to the point, I'm currently living with my parents again, out in Acton where the deer and the antelope roam. Or something like that. It's ( Read more... ) -
Victory!
Six after I first got behind the wheel of a car, I have finally overcome my phobia: I now have a driver's license. -
Typo of the Day
"...to be united with the grater consciousness..."
Become one with the cheese grater, my friend. Become one with graters everywhere. -
Five resolutions
1. Write Daily. Even a sentence is okay.
2. acknowledge every person you encounter as a human being.
3. Cultivate compassion for a all living beings. Especially the irritating ones. Especially yourself.
4. Eat real food. Every day. Coffee is not a food. Soymilk is not a food.
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Vast numbers of men and women died, you wrote,
because they did not have time, the blessing
of sheer time, to recover. Your ration of time
was smaller then, a tin spoon of winter,
piano notes one at a time from the roof
to the gutter.
--Carolyn Forche, from Ourselves or Nothing, which is so beautiful that I have not yet dared to read the rest ( Read more... ) -
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I did, in fact, wake up early this morning and wind up doing a bit of cleaning. I wasn't happy about spontaneously rising after seven hours of sleep when I could afford to get eight, but I suppose there's not much to be done for it ( Read more... ) -
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"There's no such thing as perfect writing. Just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."
--Haruki Murakami
