& they brush against our skin, as we pass through them
each one leaving a scar
each one a light in the yielding dark.

i remember i used to believe in things.

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Actually I hope to be updating flickr a lot, soon. Thus summer went: Too much UER> Figment > Firefly > BFF's Wedding > Burning Man > Rocky Halloween. So, yes, my backlog is significant. Don't make fun of me when I post photos of June in January.

A shuttered hospital.
Three visits now-- one to a peripheral, two to the main buildings.

On each of the last two, we manage to explore about a third of this place. I find it a satisfyingly large building.


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Mass Law:  CHAPTER 270, Section 1. Whoever, for the purpose of sale, adulterates any liquor used or intended for drink with Indian cockle, vitriol, grains of paradise, opium, alum, cochineal, capsicum, copperas, laurel water, logwood, Brazil wood, sugar of lead or any other substance poisonous or injurious to health, and whoever knowingly ( Read more... )

We have one shot at this.  A single chance for success.  This is the last time you will be this young.  This is the last time you will have this many days left to get it right.  Potential only ebbs.  Possibility only decreases along the arrow of time.  Every second of every day counts: the luxury of time is a toxic illusion.  Comfort is ( Read more... )

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Every day is a new adventure.

I was in the basement making a guillotine when I noticed that the slop sink was filling with water from the drain.

Concerned, I called the land manager.  I went about my business, checking often on ominously rising water-line.  I poked my head outside to see whether the rain had abated.

It had.  But a plumber would be ( Read more... )