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Tag Archives: presence
Follow Up?
I’m trying to figure out if I should send a follow-up text to my okc date from the other night. But what do I have to say, especially when the expectation that I will ever see this person again in … Continue reading
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Tagged dating, follow-up, Mt. Everest, presence, rock climing, self-consciousness, terror, text
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my new pants
i was out wandering this neighborhood i had never been, looking for The Apartment, of course, when i ran into this person i had not seen in almost a decade, but who remains present as a Facebook friend. She waved to … Continue reading
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Tagged atrophy, avatars, conversation, Facebook, hats, holes, pants, presence
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the best question
probably the strangest question during my 9 hour job interview last week was the final question: how would you like us to remember you? me? yes. how i would like you to remember me? am i understanding that correctly? yes. … Continue reading
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Tagged absence, chair, character, here, identity, integrity, job interview, memory, perpetuity, personality, plausibility, presence, sensibility
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something
there are some who might say you have a way of always taking nothing and turning it into something when it really really was nothing, but still, you made such a big deal out of it. and you just clung … Continue reading
the desert stars
From Wind, Sand and Stars (1939) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery Once again I had found myself in the presence of a truth and had failed to recognize it. Consider what had happened to me: I had thought myself lost, had touched … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, death, desert, despair, heart, presence, renunciation, Sand, satisfaction, spirit, Stars, thirst, Wind
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backspace
there are moments when a person might wonder what is the purpose of having a blog? why even bother? the things that are going on inside my head are not anything i would want anyone to see outside my head. … Continue reading
Yom Kippur eve
So far, i have atoned very minimally, if at all. i woke up with a yearning to atone, but really, what constitutes atonement? forgiveness for my moments of selfishness that were really not about acquiring things, but more selfish, perhaps, … Continue reading
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Tagged absence, atonement, compassion, courage, possibilities, presence, self-doubt, selfish, Yom Kippur
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The Lost Pedestrian 