It was raining. I was maybe five years old, but probably not older than six, because I was only six after we’d moved north from Lostant and the Wal-Mart that we were at was definitely the one in Lasalle, that big old one like before they switched to the red, white, and blue branding that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘feelings’
The things I carried
April 22nd, 2011
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I’ve got nothing in my pockets right now save for a pen. It’s one of those nice recycled cardboard ones that they give out at environmentally-conscious conferences and presentations. This is important. Allow me to explain. I present a refrain from my high school years: “Hey Tim! What’s in your pockets today?” Imagine, if you [...]
Mud Cakes
January 4th, 2011
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Mud cakes. There was a time in my life (you can probably guess that I was quite short) when I spent an abnormal amount of time carefully crafting cakes of mud. Their purpose: to be cakes of mud; nothing more, nothing less. I’d head out into the field after a wet night or early morning, [...]
Play-Doh shows us how to be the Torchbearers of humanity
June 7th, 2010
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The Souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of Lights; Each takes a Taper (candle), often only a spark, to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls of rare fortune, are detained longer and have time to grab a handful of candles, which they [...]
Charity? Paradox?
May 3rd, 2010
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He’s pulling on my shirt. I’d guess that he’s about 7 or 8. He’s not speaking English, so I have no way of knowing what his “hook” is. He keeps rubbing his right eye – it looks terrible, like something exploded in it. This is my first interaction with a child of the street. I [...]
The Bay Area Dispatch of Doom Vol. 15 (name change edition)
April 23rd, 2010
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Hello friends, I’ve taken to eating giant salads at around 5 or 6 PM each day. It allows me to go light on lunch and avoid going to bed feeling too full. My estimate is that each such salad has about ten servings of vegetables. I also use dangerous levels of turmeric and cumin. And [...]
We must do things these days
March 5th, 2010
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Not sure why I’ve chosen to post this today. I am troubled, deeply, by the billions of people worldwide who will go to bed tonight hungry, fearful for their safety, or sick from disease. These days, it’s not worth mentioning the statistics concerning how many people live on less than $2/day. I even hesitate to [...]
