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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.

where i am

Posted on January 19, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

when i look back upon my blog posts, it pains me to notice how repetitive i can be… writing the same things over and over again using different words in different combinations … but always always the same things. such … Continue reading →

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Toast

Posted on January 18, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

My voice feels like toast. And it sounds like gravel, but Who am I to judge ?

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the saboteur

Posted on January 17, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

i always thought i was a pretty decent team player until i was asked to behave as a member of a team. last night a canadian friend told me that my rebellion against team-building exercises (such as the much dreaded … Continue reading →

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parenthesis

Posted on January 16, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

i was hit by a broken tidal wave, but, most fortunately, i was wearing a device that kept me afloat. by the time i returned to shore, it felt like my world was enclosed in parenthesis. i guess i am … Continue reading →

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a ramshackle affair

Posted on January 15, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

some days i feel like a chesapeake bay retriever. other days i feel like a wounded officer from some ramshackle disbanded army. one is n0t necessarily better than the other. i think the important thing is just to act p0lite … Continue reading →

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the courage to sleep

Posted on January 14, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

and then it occurred to me that sleep can be redefined. there are ways to make sleep into something voluminous and profound and constructive, something consequential and transforming. it doesn’t have to be downtime. it can be 8 hours of … Continue reading →

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the back row

Posted on January 13, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

you may have seen me sitting in the back row at the james bond movie tonight. that was me. i kept wandering out of the theater, behind the screen, out into the lobby, beneath the projection booth, past the concession … Continue reading →

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lather

Posted on January 12, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

some people celebrate surviving their first week at a new job, binging on various forms of stimulants. my version was to binge on yogurt, 2 different kinds of yogurt within 20 minutes. i am all lathered up on yogurt (and … Continue reading →

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pro forma

Posted on January 10, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

i apologize to everybody for being invisible these past few days. i have been overwhelmed and shocked and disoriented from my previous state of semi-slaggard-ness to a regular 8:30-5:00 full-time day gig. i can’t believe that I have to start … Continue reading →

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i can’t figure out why i feel so annoyed today. is it too simplistic to place the blame on Starbucks who now wants to charge me 20 cents extra for decaff when it is i who should be charging them … Continue reading →

Posted on January 6, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian | Leave a comment

strange and alarming

Posted on January 4, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

forgive me, for i have misspoke. again and again i have misspoken. my lack of eloquence since the holidays began and into these first days of 2013 has been strange and alarming. it’s not exactly a matter of saying things … Continue reading →

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unlikely

Posted on January 3, 2013 by The Lost Pedestrian

my favorite moment in new york last week. on the subway. this guy seated next to me reading Essays by Montaigne…. he kept looking over my shoulder as I was pretending to read History of the Thirteen by Balzac, but … Continue reading →

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not being a new years resolution person, i am surprised about how flooded i am by so many of them. but perhaps i should just try to keep things simple. i don’t know where to begin. so i will simply … Continue reading →

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dinner music

Posted on December 30, 2012 by The Lost Pedestrian

i can’t seem to break free. i can see the walls. i can feel them. but i can’t penetrate. i wait for things to happen instead of making them happen. that’s certainly no way to penetrate a wall. or so … Continue reading →

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the guest issue

Posted on December 27, 2012 by The Lost Pedestrian

Something I must finally admit to myself is that–when traveling–I really can’t stand being a guest. I’m just not very good at it. I can’t shed the self-consciousness, that sense of always being in the way, that sense of disrupting … Continue reading →

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