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December 2012
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Open: Louis C.K. Homage
A ten minute writing exercise. Theme: “Someone I Admire”
You know the feeling. When the middle-aged lady in the mall has the same bowl-cut hair as her teenage son and they are slowly eating an orange together in the food court; and his sister is a young branch stripped of everything feminine and so honest and unquestioning in her foliage you know they are never going to find a husband...
November 2012
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Open: Saturday Texts
(5.16 pm)
J: It snowed so I cancelled all my plans for the day
M: Haha was there that much snow?
J: I have ultra-Kramer hair and am wearing my old "Blossom" denim coat walking through Walmart. Aside from my D&G glasses I'm indistinguishable from a hobo
J: I didn't have a snowbrush
J: Just got ID'd for a game I bought
M: Hahahahahahahahha
M: How do you not have a snowbrush?
M: And you bought a denim jacket at Walmart?
J: Rental car
J: And it`s the denim jacket from Market Collective lol
M: Oh right
M: Lol sure
J: Just scraped my windows then decided to go back in for an aux cable to play my iPod in the rental car
J: Next dilemma: should I go to the Walmart McDonald`s rather than drive across the parking lot to Smash Burger
J: ?
M: Smash Burger always
(5.30 pm)
J: Then I have to drive across the parking lot and wait for it
M: I don't know J
J: A lesbian dressed like a Walmart-brand Bieber just rolled a 60 inch LCD out on a trolley
M: Haha
J: We are kindred spirits lol
J: Oh and I think the Indian guy in the electronics centre was making fun of me with his Latina coworker bc when I paid for my aux cord she laughed and then over-apologized lol
M: Rude!
J: lol
J: All the cars outside of Smash Burger are parked in a desperate fashion, all crooked and outside of the lines
M: Hahaha join them
J: I parked perfectly for once
M: Way to stand out
M:
J: I think I have to write this for my blog
M: Please do
(5.45 pm)
J: Happy ending?: the cashier at Smash Burger is a cute lil thing named Logan. She has a short cropped coiffe that tends to her right. While I type my PIN number we catch ourselves looking the other over. I'm afraid she's gonna make fun of me
J: She says, "I really like your hair" lol. I awkwardly reply that it's bedhead and confess I like her glasses. I thank her by name, accept my receipt and then text you. Lol
M: Number!!!
J: Can't. The story's over
J: And I think she's a teenageer
M: Oh haha then no
J: Yup lol
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October 2012
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September 2012
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July 2012
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April 2012
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WatchClose: Listening to Shame
On change and the third thing:
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. To create is to make something that has never existed before. There’s nothing more vulnerable than that. Adaptability to change is all about vulnerability.
On where we have to go:
I want to walk you in to shame. Jungian analysts call shame the swampland of the...
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WatchOpen: The Power of Vulnerability
On the “whole-hearted”:
The original definition of courage, when it first came into the the English language, is from the Latin word cor, meaning “heart” - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart. And so these folks had, very simply, the courage to be imperfect. They had the compassion to be...
March 2012
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Open/Close: Tàiyáng 太陽 (Great Yang)
We are...
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“… In the phenomenology of mythology and religion two factors are to be...”
– Close: Of Shamans
Joseph Campbell. Shamanism. Primitive Mythology. (via seeyoulateraggregator)
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Close: "Sitting During the Billy Collins Q&A"
Often I catch myself asking how not to answer questions you haven’t even asked yet
“Yet” is the cruelest promise I make to myself because first I pretend it doesn’t mean “maybe” and then I hang a future from it
that’s like tying the sagging porch to the awning
So I envy the college boy up at the mic to pose Billy Collins a question
He quivers...
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To Be Closed
70. My words are very easy to understand very easy to put into practice No one under heaven can understand no one can practice Words have ancestry. Actions have masters. Truly, not knowing this is not knowing me Rare, the ones who know me. So I am valued. Therefore the sage wears rough clothes and conceals jade within.
-Laozi, Tao Te Ching
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To Be Open
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly - it’s the best advice ever given to me. When it comes to dying even....
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Close: Reclaim
Memories can be hidden, faded, muddied, fogged, and even forgotten…but never erased. Sometimes, in order to move forward, a memory needs to simply have the colours removed.
Jonathan Turingan, February 29th 2012
http://www.jonathanvturingan.com/My_Canvas/Sketchbook/Entries/2012/2/29_My_Re-Self-Portrait.html
February 2012
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Open: Morning
cold milky morning the extra day collected from four years of life i can’t see the sun or sky but that white holds ev’ry hue
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