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What We’re Into
Blurbs I’ve had about things I like and sightings I thought were awesome or funny; but they made me think. Having an sense of wonderment, an opinion, an insight or an “a-ha”. I can be sitting on the train and looking out the window and get the most ethereal feeling triggered by something I see, such as the front of the train from where I sit in the last car. It’s a perfect arc rounding the tracks to 125 Street Station of Metro North Railroad. Whatever I am reading becomes note paper, because if I don’t scribble down the inspiration quickly, it evaporates and becomes a ghost and my continual…
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The Dream Spoilers
Their thoughts and essence seeps into your space like a scented ghost. There, but not there. Felt but not seen, The moment you become aware of the change, something in you begins to waver, giving in to the assault and you begin to lose the space you thought you owned. OTOLI
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Favorite Things
Ice Cream Ice cream makes a celebration and if you haven’t had ice cream, your celebration is incomplete. Old-fashioned homemade is best. I have gone out in a blizzard to get ice cream because I didn’t have any at home. I have some favorite flavors such as French Vanilla, Rum Raisin, and Cherry Garcia, but strawberry is my favorite flavor of all time.
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I Found Myself
Wondering if Kismet has taken some kind of wrong turn. Some summer ago, I twiddled my fingers while sending out resumes, browsing the Internet and figuring out how to maintain my simple lifestyle. I kid you not. My needs are simple with a little fun thrown in. Work, earn some money, continue working on my B.S., (even though some dared to tell me it’s too late and I’m too old), pay my bills and protect my credit. Oprah read Eat, Pray, Love and Women, Food and God back-to-back, while all I thought about was how ten years prior I was in exactly the same situation. In what seems to me…
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Free Life Lessons
I seek to learn from any given experience without personally going through the hardship, the trauma or the adventure myself. I call these FREE Life Lessons. So I play the game of “what if”, as my imagination wanders into unbeckoned territory. I create my own edited versions of experiences, switching in myself and pretending what I would do if it were me. I don’t have to have my heart broken, finances ruined or my feelings hurt if I can learn from an existing experience. How do you learn a lesson from someone else’s experience? You try to imagine the outcome, the potential consequences and decide if you would ever want…
