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Our work will at least have distracted us, it will have provided a perfect bubble in which to insert our hopes for perfection, it will have focused our immeasurable anxieties on a few relatively small-scale and achievable goals, it will have given us a sense of mastery, it will have made us respectfully tired, it will have put food on the table. It ( Read more... ) -
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...My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us expereinces a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments--we hear a word that sticks in our mind--or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly--we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, ( Read more... ) -
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Due to cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
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Patterned, sideways moving, crablike cuts. Twirls progress, like ribbons, small as pockets, steps. Steps. Bent backwards, moving for wards tucked in corridors in houses painted blues, greens. Splotching -- (like) us. Patterned, leave overlapping, crossing, not crossed or bent; furrowed, sniffing suspiciously-- life’s proximity. Receding into greys ( Read more... ) -
Lunch time rush
There is a car in the flowerbed of the pub that is directly opposite my work. In front of the car- two police cars and a fire engine.
Seems the car glided swiftly into the side of the pub. The petals of the flowers now sparkle with glittery carnage.
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Words and flames
I noticed a leaf had fallen into my tea, but as I poised my thumb, I decided that it was probably cleaner drinking tea with a leaf in it than a tea branded by my grubby thumb ( Read more... ) -
Ah ha!
Me: Do you think it’s unwise to ask a crude online magic eight ball answers to pertinent life questions?
Crude online magic eight ball: Signs point to yes.
