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Well, that went well. I've had my kid lock me out of the house before, but today he locked us both out as I was trying to hang the washing and avoid being nailed with a garden spade (trickier than it sounds, as it happens). I was dressed, but barefoot and my hair was "cooling" (ie: basically in curlers, except without the physical curlers -- ( Read more... ) -
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"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" -- Mary Oliver ( Read more... ) -
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I have Invisible Mother Syndrome...here is one of maybe five photographs in which I appear *with* my child. We had a good day at the zoo...he fed a giraffe! He watched several flamingos building nests! He touched a boa constrictor! He raced a tortoise! Phew.
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Double-take
I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've come across the words "sprouted into a mock penis" in my research. I actually had to read the sentence twice to make sure I wasn't having some kind of hallucination.
"This flap was a modest affair in the medieval era but sprouted into a mock penis as the 16th century began. This became a beribboned and ( Read more... ) -
For painful wakenings.
Why did I dream of you last night?
Why did I dream of you last night?
Now morning is pushing back hair with grey light
Memories strike home, like slaps in the face;
Raised on elbow, I stare at the pale fog
beyond the window.
So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
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'If I've done wrong, I'm dying for it.'
In her eagerness she rose and supported herself on the arm of the chair. At that earnest appeal he turned to her, looking absolutely desperate. His eyes, wide and wet, at last flashed fiercely on her; his breast heaved convulsively. An instant they held asunder, and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her ( Read more... ) -
Strange moods
I was out late last night, and when I came home, I felt relaxed and fairly content. I was surprised to find myself awake in the middle of the night, pierced with the most profound unhappiness. I must have had the remnants of a dream around me, andI lay there so engulfed that I could hardly breathe. No tears, just a clenching misery and the distant ( Read more... ) -
Work and Poems and Cowboys and Stuff
Really, really great news today -- I passed my state exam for Insurance Investigator with a 94%. I have to wait another 4-6 weeks or so to b e called for an interview, but I feel like things are starting to move. It feels really good to finally feel like I have some traction in my life again, and to see that the work I've been putting in is finally ( Read more... )
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