on parabolic progress: highs and lows

[calitetra]

Walk in the door while answering my phone. It's my mom, who's car I just got out of. She asks if I want to run back out and get my Goucher travel mug that I left in the cup holder. I tell her my dishwasher doesn't really work, could she wash it for me? She agrees. The truth is I'm just lazy and already have my jacket off and don't want to run

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[wordweaver06]

One of my writing teachers tried to describe what it is that a story needs in order to make it a story. She went on a long rant that I zoned out of and when I tuned back in she was gesturing wildly and declared, "It has to have a giraffe!"

I like this. It has a giraffe.

[asimaiyat]

I re-read the post to see if I'd missed the giraffe. Just in case it wasn't a metaphor.

[asimaiyat]

My boyfriend used to have a campus radio show, and I felt exactly the same way listening to it before we were together.

Lovely post. Take care.

[cyaneus]

I miss you. I like the way you write.

[huduvudu]

Crazy random happenstance is something else.

I'm glad you too have those moments when one can drift around without an immediate goal, shifting between various sources of sound that evoke different trains of thoughts.

That's a hard phenomenon for me to articulate...