May 2012
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Sayings of the San - 8
Kiume ina matumizi. Kike una lengo.
The male has a use. The female has a purpose.
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fifty-four
may 5 nineteen hundred and 67
I had followed Licious to Madison
where she shared a room with Big Kenny,
bowls of bud, books of bombs.
cinco de mayo -
the day Big Kenny died
coughing up foam
his face as red as the flag
that hung in the window
that we could never close
power to the people
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fifty-three
The world is filled with pain and sorrow but I have found a serenity that you can find too.
- Buddha
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fifty-two
What he actually said was that life is blissful - joy is everywhere - only we’re closed off to it. His teachings were actually about opening up the joyful and blissful nature of reality but that the bliss and the joy are in the transitory.
Do you see this glass? I love this glass. It holds the water admirably. When I tap it, it has a lovely ring. When the sun shines on it, it reflects the light...
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fifty-one
No matter what your circumstances you will end up losing everything you love. You will end up aging. You will end up ill. You will die. And the problem is that we need to figure out how to make that all be alright.
- Jane Hirshfield
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“We [Black theologians] want to know who Jesus was because we believe that that...”
– James Cone (via azspot)
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fifty
Me: I'm going to put these chicken scraps into the dogs's bowls.
Marta: Should I wake them up and show them?
Me: No, no need. They will discover it on their own eventually.
Marta: Why would you do that? Don't you realize that's how religions get started?
April 2012
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forty-nine
Everybody understands suffering. It’s something that we all share with everybody else. It is at once utterly intimate and utterly shared.
- W.S. Merwin
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forty-eight
Faith is the abdication of self-responsibility.
- Buddha
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WatchTreat your ears right. Listen to this badass trombone.
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Sayings of the San - 7
Akili atakuambia maneno ya uongo, mwili si
The mind will tell you lies; the body will not.
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Call-in #2
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March 2012
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forty-seven
Never liked riding in cars.
Never liked that smell.
The sound.
The way they make me forget to breathe.
Never learned to drive.
Have to ride with my eyes closed
in the back seat
or I still get sick.
Greta didn’t have a car.
But that first time off the boat,
she took me back to her house
on a bus.
I peed my pants
and threw up in the aisle.
It’s all that distance...
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War - Edwin Star
War
Good god y’all
What...
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On Seeing The Lion King
I was not impressed.
There were no lions -
only that which I see every day -
people wearing the masks of lions.
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Lion King
Marta ended up with an extra ticket to the Broadway production of The Lion King at the the Landmark Theater.
I’m not sure what to expect but when I asked her if there’d be real lions she said “Don’t be stupid.”
I’m taking that as a “Yes!”
Can’t wait.
February 2012
22 posts
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WatchMore from Five Guys …
Oh my god! I thought I was gonna die!
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Call-in #1
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forty-six
The biopsy came back today confirming that it was indeed metastatic melanoma #7 but Dr. Sequamous said it was in it’s early stages and he seemed confident that his magic ninja knife got it all.
So this makes 3 from my right arm, 3 from my left, and a big juicy one from my neck. Oh, and I have names for them all:
#1 - The Mark That Makes the Unknown Mother Cry (right arm)
#2 - The Fish Found...
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Valentine's Day
Marta’s supposed boyfriend, Buddy, or as I call him, “Buddy”, the VCU creative writing teacher - who’s a d-i-c-k!!, called her at zero hour before their big Valentine’s date last night to tell her that he had a last minute mandatory faculty meeting and wouldn’t be able to make it. And oh, he was so sorry - that he’d been looking forward to this for months...
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@ Arcadia - Marta’s beau stood her up!!!! Feel bad for her but not too bad - get to be Arcadia stand -in. Win!
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Before I got out of bed this morning I saw myself get up, walk across the room, and put my pants on and then I got up, walked across the room, and put my pants on.
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forty-five
I’ve always wondered about the doctors that you end up dealing with at your typical doc-in-the-box like Patient First. Don’t get me wrong - I can’t really complain about the care I’ve received but I often wonder at the personality type that is attracted to that kind of employment situation. Is it the type that wants to relieve human suffering but only 9 to 5 and with a 401k - “I can deal with...
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@ Patient First - It looks like the wait won’t be too bad.
This spot on on my arm is looking all too familiar. Heading to doctor first thing tomorrow. Melanoma #7?
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