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Saturday, 11:32 pm
i was standing in a large room, a hall of some sort, and all around me in the candlelight, hundreds of people were singing in a language with words i could not recognize, and their bodies were swaying with the … Continue reading
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Tagged candlelight, death, dream, fear, life, portal, singing, voices
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a dull roar
my plummet into uncertainty was met with a dull roar, which either meant that it wasn’t much of plummet or that things were not as uncertain as they originally seemed to the untrained eye.
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where you are not
gosh, you should have seen me. in the pool you would have been astounded. i swam and i swam and i swam for almost an hour, rarely crashing into anything. but you weren’t there. and i felt your absence. the … Continue reading
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Tagged absence, astound, crashing, crevices, noticing, pangs, swimming, the last person, trouble, writing
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mercury
it happened again. another day of really bad swimming. i don’t know how to explain it. i began on such a positive note. i wasn’t even thinking of swimming in a straight line. and now, i swim like wild mercury. … Continue reading
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Tagged blame, current, darkness, decision, fog, lighting, mask, mercury, pool, research, responsibility, straight line, swimming, topography
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on the terrace
at my friend c’s party tonight. i was secretly hoping that i would not be able to find anywhere to park and that this would be my excuse for missing it. but that was not to be. i never ever … Continue reading
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Tagged awestruck, conversation, friends, lake, parking, terrace, waves, Wind
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the north
it’s hard to tell whether my swimming is progressing or digressing. i can swim further and longer, but also crookeder. for some reason when i swim from north to south, i feel as if i am perfectly aligned, but when … Continue reading
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Tagged astro-cartography, digress, north, progress, south, spiritual journey, swimming
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Saturday, 4:39 PM
no energy today (yet) the only thing that may wake me up is sleep
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because the wash
I was just about to go to sleep, just beginning to descend into the mattress when i came across this cryptic message written on a post-it note, slightly attached to my pillow. i really have no clue as to its … Continue reading
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Tagged bed, consolation, dryness, hope, lacking, messenger, pillow, post-it note, sleep, wash
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3 seconds later
i am not the organism that i used to be this is simply an observation, not necessarily a criticism i am not alone in this respect, i tend to think who amongst us are the same organisms we once were, … Continue reading
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Tagged age, change, criticism, observation, organism, possibility
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pressure cooker
i can never tell whether i am utterly lacking in self-discipline or if my internal taskmaster is so omnipresent, unrelentingly harsh, so unforgiving if i depart from what i expect of me, i must be a complete slacker. and that … Continue reading
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Tagged discipline, effort, fun, harsh, lack, natural, organic, practice, pressure cooker, slacker, unforgiving, whole-istic
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Bob
i can’t believe how quiet it is tonight. it’s almost startlingly quiet. except for the persistent ringing in my ears that began at a Wilco concert in Seattle in 1997 and never quite went away. someone at a meditation retreat … Continue reading
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Tagged American Tibetan Buddhist, Angels, bed, Bob, ghost, quiet, ringing in the ears, Seattle, sleep, Wilco
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afloat
i felt so duplicitous today. it’s true. i’ve been dreading the next Employee Appreciation Day ever since last January’s Employee Appreciation Event/Bowling Party… the one where the fundamentalist Christian animation instructor (who had just completed his first feature film, an … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, boss, Employee Appreciation Day, excuses, orange alert, party, skin cancer, social anxiety, sun exposure
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jazz fest
at the jazz festival tonight. i was seated next to this very friendly woman who kept finding famous chicago musicians scattered around the audience, entire branches, sub-branches and sub-sub branches of families from all over the south side of chicago. … Continue reading
backstroking
i asked this man if i could share a lane with him in the swimming pool but i could tell he was not very enthused which made me feel unwelcome and i wanted to swim elsewhere but there was a … Continue reading
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Tagged arrow, backstrokes, lanes, swimming, swimming pool, untraceable
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The Lost Pedestrian 