My Blessings
My daughter. 18 years ago she squirmed into the world and started paying attention. There are no conditions on the love of a parent for a child.
My friends. Somehow they find room to indulge me. In return, they are mentors, sages, bullshit detectors and accomplices.
Sacramento City College Express. Let's face it: I showed up there a 44-year old renegade with a...
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My daughter. 18 years ago she squirmed into the world and started paying attention. There are no conditions on the love of a parent for a child.
My friends. Somehow they find room to indulge me. In return, they are mentors, sages, bullshit detectors and accomplices.
Sacramento City College Express. Let's face it: I showed up there a 44-year old renegade with a...
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Sometimes I feel like life is a tomato field, while I want to live in a patch of unruly weeds.
This may not be an original thought. It may not be progressive. it is admittedly chaotic and not to be bandied about lightly. But I feel I can be frank here.
When I was a kid, I wanted nothing more than to live isolated in...
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aeryn:
wonderful... I was just walking through my over the ankle ragged grass and thinking that I was so glad that most of the weeds in yard tended to bloom and were edible, and wodering what I could do to promote more moss.
aeryn:
yeah I think I need to deprive certain areas of my grass from light and the moss will thrive...but then the dandelions might not do as well.
I hear that it's St. Patrick's Day.
In fact I'm going to a party with my school newspaper buddies to celebrate this event.
Sad to say, it means nothing to me.
I guess I'll have a few. But no green beer for me. Seems like a really bad idea. Like it would give you gas, at the very least.
A nice Guinness and a shot...
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In fact I'm going to a party with my school newspaper buddies to celebrate this event.
Sad to say, it means nothing to me.
I guess I'll have a few. But no green beer for me. Seems like a really bad idea. Like it would give you gas, at the very least.
A nice Guinness and a shot...
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aeryn:
thanks for the secret info...I can't wait to have time to check it out.
I don't think St.Pats day means anything to anyone except as another reason to drink...I which I personally think is a good thing. And I'm 100% with you on the green both in my beer and otherwise.
I don't think St.Pats day means anything to anyone except as another reason to drink...I which I personally think is a good thing. And I'm 100% with you on the green both in my beer and otherwise.
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No more sleep for me. No more dreams for me. Instead just grainy eerily lucid video games at 4 in the morning.
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I'm going to start making t-shirts. All I need is a bunch of t-shirts. Then I'm going to wear them around town. You'd be surprised how often people compliment me on my t-shirts. I always think it's a little odd. They're just shirts.
Now, if they like my shirt, I'll offer to sell it to them.
That should work.
All my life so far has...
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Now, if they like my shirt, I'll offer to sell it to them.
That should work.
All my life so far has...
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sinope:
hey 
hmmm yeah the explainings the worrying thing.
hmmm yeah the explainings the worrying thing.
sinope:
probably not, knowing me!
The Poetry Workshop
I'm the youngest person in the room.
They keep making me come back.
They want critiques.
How do you critique a poem about nothing?
Yawn.
It's weird to be the youngest person in the room. But there isn't anyplace else to go for interaction with this many experienced poets. I keep trying to show rather than tell. Poetry is not a hobby!...
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I'm the youngest person in the room.
They keep making me come back.
They want critiques.
How do you critique a poem about nothing?
Yawn.
It's weird to be the youngest person in the room. But there isn't anyplace else to go for interaction with this many experienced poets. I keep trying to show rather than tell. Poetry is not a hobby!...
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He fell in love without much thought. It was wild, barren and lonesome outside and very easy to die. Therefore when he fell in love it didn't need much thought.
The sea growled and sent long scuppers of foam like sexual advances up the rivermouth. The river pulled it all back, and the sea spumed again, hairy at the breakwater and running in a long...
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The sea growled and sent long scuppers of foam like sexual advances up the rivermouth. The river pulled it all back, and the sea spumed again, hairy at the breakwater and running in a long...
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aeryn:
wait I want to read more..can you secretly tell me where I might find more your writing??? I love reading your journal.
Sincere. Proof that when there's a need, there's a word.
It's from the Latin sin-cera :without wax.
Apparently people would embellish stone and marble sculptures with wax and pass off the embellished statuary as a higher grade. It's possible to add fine detail to wax much easier than to stone. You can make things look better.
But it's insincere. Superficial.
It's a word that wouldnt...
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It's from the Latin sin-cera :without wax.
Apparently people would embellish stone and marble sculptures with wax and pass off the embellished statuary as a higher grade. It's possible to add fine detail to wax much easier than to stone. You can make things look better.
But it's insincere. Superficial.
It's a word that wouldnt...
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aeryn:
That's really good and so true..and I'm being sincere.
lolablu:
It's impossible to steer clear of insincere people in my line o' work.
So What Happens Here?
my problem is I don't really understand modern life, nor do i appreciate many of its rewards. I want the world to be a very different place. not exotic, but real. i want things to be as simple as fruit and cream.
my problem is I don't really understand modern life, nor do i appreciate many of its rewards. I want the world to be a very different place. not exotic, but real. i want things to be as simple as fruit and cream.
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jovia:
agreeing on the subject of double chins. 
ingrid:
How did you know to say those words (on my set)? 
Wow.
Wow.
My Life With The Hippies
there was a trail I could walk down and at the end of it lived Darryl and Tea. A couple of hippies. And all around us on the ridges there were hippies living in bungalows of unpeeled tanoak and other such doomed construction. Driving up and down the road in beater pcikups, looking half-starved and stoned, stoppiing at the one...
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there was a trail I could walk down and at the end of it lived Darryl and Tea. A couple of hippies. And all around us on the ridges there were hippies living in bungalows of unpeeled tanoak and other such doomed construction. Driving up and down the road in beater pcikups, looking half-starved and stoned, stoppiing at the one...
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I don't feel like I understand this and that bothers me.
It reminds me of a road trip I was on. Me and 3 of my closest friends were driving over a bridge, smoking a bowl as we went along. There was a cop at the bottom of the bridge that we couldn't see until we passed him. Everyone in the car choked and bulged and sweated and feared for the next 5 years of their young lives.
But the cop didn't see us, so we laughed nervously, paused for a moment to make sure our hearts hadn't collectively combusted, and continued with the stoning process.
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It reminds me of a road trip I was on. Me and 3 of my closest friends were driving over a bridge, smoking a bowl as we went along. There was a cop at the bottom of the bridge that we couldn't see until we passed him. Everyone in the car choked and bulged and sweated and feared for the next 5 years of their young lives.
But the cop didn't see us, so we laughed nervously, paused for a moment to make sure our hearts hadn't collectively combusted, and continued with the stoning process.
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How far do you walk every day? Is it a chore, or a pleasure?
There's nothing like a stroll in the evening after dinner.
Also cool: hiking quickly over wet grass toward some kind of a bluff.
Going a mile-and-a-half up a beach that continues out of sight, then returning the same way, making up some nonsense lyric which, by the time you're back at...
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There's nothing like a stroll in the evening after dinner.
Also cool: hiking quickly over wet grass toward some kind of a bluff.
Going a mile-and-a-half up a beach that continues out of sight, then returning the same way, making up some nonsense lyric which, by the time you're back at...
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Most people simply say "I did this and this and this today, and this is how I feel about that and that and that." Which is why you and I are peas in a pod my friend, peas in a pod. No one ever knows what is going on in our lives, but everyone always knows what's going on in our heads.
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sluttygoodgirl:
It seems that everything good in life can be overshadowed by the loss of the family unit, how it affects the kids, and everything else that it entails. I was surprised to see that people thought that that entry was happy, as I was crying as I wrote it.
i'm not detached.
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