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About The Lost Pedestrian

In my wanderings throughout the moments/days/years, I try in earnest to find the mystical within the mundane and the mundane within the mystical, oftentimes confusing one from the other. I have wandered and roamed through many a city, many a town, in a state of wonder and bewilderment, without necessarily going anywhere. I am easily lost, but eventually found. (I am guessing you have just found me). My sincere hope is that you will find Something in this warehouse of thought, memory and false memory, words, numbers, tangents, murmurs, echoes (lots and lots of echoes), voices, dreams, and other paraphernalia.

lotto

Posted on February 19, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

this afternoon, a bicycle messenger arrived at my “office” to deliver a letter from an unnamed source that could either spell catastrophe or liberation. or perhaps it spells both. i read it over and over and over again, but before … Continue reading →

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calling attention to emptiness

Posted on February 17, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

i am noticing a disturbing trend. i notice that when i do not write anything new on my blog, i have no readership. this is really distressing because of days like yesterday when i literally had nothing new to say. … Continue reading →

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leaving

Posted on February 16, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

i’m starting to feel it again. winter is leaving. winter is leaving me again. o winter, how i pine for you to stay. if only you knew. is there anything i can do to convince to change your mind? it’s … Continue reading →

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who knows?

Posted on February 12, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

who knows what to think of anything? that is my question for the day. i will await your answer. until then… fondly yours, TLP

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out of nowhere

Posted on February 10, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

this playwright friend texted me that she really wanted me to see her new play which ran this weekend, adding that she was almost embarrassed to admit just how much she wanted me to see it. i wasn’t expecting that. … Continue reading →

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the worst

Posted on February 8, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

i’m wondering if i can get your permission to make more mistakes without judging them to be mistakes. or would i need your permission? i’m assuming it will ok. but so very often, my assumptions are wrong. i’m not really … Continue reading →

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Mit wechselnden Händen

Posted on February 7, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

I’ve started reading Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann because my favorite music critic seems to write about it frequently, which piqued my curiosity. The first 27 pages have not quite grabbed me…  which may partially be because I tend to only read … Continue reading →

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practice

Posted on February 5, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

i feel sort of bad that i have not been writing that much of late. but then i remind myself that writing does not have to use language. i have no idea what i just meant. what i think i … Continue reading →

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February 1

Posted on February 2, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

another indescribably beautiful day of snow. i savored every fleeting second. walking in it. driving through it. letting it fall upon me.  talking for 2 hours with anthropology graduate student who was interviewing me, asking me to describe my experience … Continue reading →

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falling in reverse slow motion

Posted on January 31, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

at one point, i turned away from my computer screen, and there through the window was snow, and i awakened at 3:00 in the afternoon. if my intellect did not tell me this was snow, i would have thought it … Continue reading →

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pretend harder

Posted on January 30, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

i’ve been trying to figure out why i am so bad at work or work-related presentations–and why they feel so different than performing. is it because i feel like i am being scrutinized and judged based upon criteria that have … Continue reading →

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June 20, 1961

Posted on January 28, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

anonymity is humility: it does not lie in the change of name, cloth or the identification with that which may be anonymous, an ideal, a heroic act, country, and so on. Anonymity is an act of the brain, the conscious … Continue reading →

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tempatations

Posted on January 28, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

some have said that nights are not meant to be colder than this one. i would not argue. if only it were accompanied by a blizzard. an arctic blast without a blizzard is an empty gesture. a bone chilling gesture, … Continue reading →

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possibly something

Posted on January 28, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

this may possibly become something else, but I’m not quite sure it’s there yet. some people on the radio tonight were talking about the differences between courage and fearlessness. Since I was listening while driving across the continent, I only picked … Continue reading →

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My Subaru

Posted on January 27, 2014 by The Lost Pedestrian

for the past 2 nights, i’ve gone to see this company adapt the first 5 minutes of one of my performances from over 20 years ago–part of an entire production consisting of 9 beginnings of 9 performances by 9 different … Continue reading →

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