threestares

my life used to be small and mean. i thought it was because the world i lived in was narrow, but then i realized it was because my eyes were closed.

have you ever noticed that some of the most challenging lessons in life are, in fact, very simple?

i was cleaning my wallet today and i found a picture of a man i met one summer day. it was taken in a photo booth. and i remember how i felt in that exact moment, i knew that without the photo i might come to believe...
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if a tree drops in the city and there is no one there to see it does it still look as fallen?

today the tree across the street was brought down. it was surreal. man, rope and chainsaw silhouetted against the prairie sky. i saw a huge hunk of tree skim the building as it swung down in its inevitable arc.

sometimes i remember a single moment, or a short span of time with so much clarity it hurts.

assumptions are our beliefs out playing with our emotions:

the photograph in her mind was slightly out of focus. blurred by the fact her mind had been in a frenzied state of emotion when the moment she recalled actually occurred. in the image the relationship was nine...
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ch, ch, ch, ch, changes...

i am going to vancouver in february.

i slept in until 6 am.

that statement sounds bizarre to me. i want to sleep in 'til noon, but i cannot.

zero hour is upon me, this will be over today at 3 pm.

eeks

i am happy it is only -10 C, that is sick.

i want to say something profound, to express something joyful.

all i can think about is how much my finger hurts and how hard it is to type with a hunk of metal attached to my hand. it was not supposed to be like this three weeks after the fact.

sometimes the last pieces of a deal are the hardest to put in place, but sometimes they just slide right in. i have found the last few days remarkable. i am trying to absorb it all.