after seeing a performance of the heart of america shakespeare festival’s “antony and cleopatra tonight, while everyone was standing around talking and working themselves up to the drive home, i got the sudden urge to fall flat on the ground. so i did. the looks on people’s faces were completely worth the jar to my…
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flint
eventually that day will come. i know it will. the question is not if. but when. that unknowing is what leaves me cold. is there time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse? if i race against winter i can break through to spring. if. so when? beyond the ice and the fire,…
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i will run through love, through blood i will run forward and away i will run through stars till they burn me cold i will run through flame, through flood
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forgiveness is hard when you don’t know what it is you need to forgive. repentance is hard when you don’t know what you’re repenting of. anger? okay, that makes sense. anger at what? after four years, what’s left to be angry about? anger at yourself, or someone else? or both? why? or fear? okay. fear…
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the nice thing about road trips is they give you plenty of time to think, so long as you’re not the one driving or navigating. on a whirlwind weekend trip to oklahoma and back i thought a lot and realized a couple of things i had hitherto not understood. they weren’t crushing realizations — uplifting…
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in college i didn’t take psychology or sociology classes because i was, quite frankly, uninterested. and i was in a hurry. in retrospect, i wish i did have some formal instruction in both areas. i love studying how people act, react and interact and positing reasons for their behavior. i’m sure my explanations are far-fetched,…
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while committing a post-tax completion file purge this afternoon i came across the following piece of writing, which appears to be a stream-of-consciousness work on … whatever came to mind. it’s not dated, but i think it’s from the second semester of my junior year at KU. here it is for your enjoyment (though bewilderment…
Read Morei told myself i would do something useful tonight
after washing the dishes and folding laundry … that appears to be listening to haydn on vinyl and reading p.g. wodehouse.
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“there are no bad days in tuscany.” and more than half of my bad days are only in my imagination.
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i saw this on etsy. i don’t drink much, but i think the sentiment is cute. and yes, i would definitely be tonic.
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