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what began as a "top five" has turned into more:

a long drive with everyone rushing, and having no specific time to be there.
a date with my longest-time, best girl.
chatting quietly with mom into the wee hours.
cute-as-a-bug sunglasses.
my new favorite radio station.
singing and dancing on the kitchen floor.
a strawberry milkshake.
pants that were once tight falling off when i...
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i wrote myself a lengthy email today.

something that stood out was my expression to self that the way i'm feeling can be analogized...
that it's somewhere between being kicked while down, then kicked again and being embraced and given wings.

one fell swoop

here we go again.

weeeeeeeeee~!~


life is beautiful.


i think that instead of reading so much of other peoples' literature, so...
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i paid $27 for almost thirteen gallons of gas yesterday.


but genny bought me dinner and we watched t.v. together.

hahahahaha
she called me and left a message on my voicemail that says "that was strange"
my new message is part of an earth, wind, & fire song - "let's groove"
.we're gonna groove tonight. /
.let this groove get you to move, it's alright...
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. life is so fucking good .

people are so amazingly different,
each one of us.


i emailed an acquaintance in arizona whom i have not shared correspondence with in too long.
her life is rolling along. she wants to go back to school and is a marketing director for a theatre association in phoenix.
i'm very very happy for her.

another acquaintance, who lives in california, stole away over the memorial...
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i wrote a few weeks ago that i felt like the space between rocks and waves - the crash is natural.

now cannot be measured except by memory.
this is what we live for.



i learn to let go over and over and over.
a hundred lifetimes in a day


lyric excerptation (from ~ben harper, "diamonds on the inside"):

i need to sleep
but i'm...
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life is still like poetry for me.

sometimes i read the same line a few times over before the cadence rolls well.
sometimes analogies, the connections, are deeper than i understand initially
and sometimes they are shallow,
without enough room to even tread in.

everything really does have its own sense of truth,
and everything is beautiful...
even those moments that seem mangled.

put a...
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On Faith:

"senora, - between austria and italy there is a section of the alps; it is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. they built a train track over these alps to connect vienna and venice. they built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip - they built it because they knew some day...
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