September 2011
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WatchI want to go to Alaska… right now.
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“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling...”
– Marilyn Monroe
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“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of...”
– Hermann Hesse
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I don’t remember the first time we met but when I saw him again I knew his face like the back of my hand. It was something more familiar than a memory but not a tangible thought; it was like having a premonition of someone I already knew but hadn’t met yet. I don’t remember what he said to me but I know that it was sarcastic enough to throw me off balance; my comfort went teetering on the edge of...
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“I want you to know
one thing.
You know how this is:
if I look
at the...”
– If You Forget Me -Pablo Neruda
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It just hits me sometimes. I have no understanding of what I am doing with my life and why. It feels like all the hope is being sucked into a black hole I didn’t know I had floated towards.
I don’t think I can write, or garden, or drink that feeling away.
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I'm Starting A Garden
I suffer from chronic depression. It’s been 4 years since I dealt with anything out of the ordinary and I haven’t thought about it since it started creeping back up over the past month. I talk about it in my latest blog, Get A Rake.
I know that depression affects more than half of our population, I know that I am not the only person out there trying to find some sort reason to keep...
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Get A Rake
If I had to try to put my finger on the epicenter I would say it started two weeks ago. It wasn’t sudden terror; I wasn’t playing chicken with the train, but like a frog in a pot of water that slowly rolls to a boil, I got caught.
I remember being in middle school the first time it happened, one of those commercials for over the counter pills came on the screen of washed out women in grey sweaters...
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First it was turqoise, then white, and then...
Banana Yellow.
