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Congestion as an Antidote for Stress?
My body has finally succumbed to the cold that has been impending for over a week ( Read more... ) -
New blog soon to come, but for now, Root.
So where are things? I’ve been feeling the kind of call lately to answer this more deeply for myself than time or hand endurance have allowed. And really doing so while at work, when I must at least seem to be doing something bike related is not particularly practical. So this is the state of things, of the being of Lauren and her views on the ( Read more... ) -
Things I love right now:
*Charlotte Hatherley's album New Worlds ( Read more... ) -
Beautiful, difficult, and ultimately, wordless.
Love is more complex than I had imagined, filled with layers, blending layers similar to exquisite food at gourmet restaurants, where rather than attempting to dissect the flavours entirely, one must sit back and soak in them, revel in the richness. This love is beautiful, painful, delicious, maddening, delicate and resolute, all at once. At ( Read more... ) -
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I am adrift. Not lost, not exactly distracted, but adrift.
Rain Dogs by Tom Waits might be the album for the rest of my Minnesota winter. Relatively energetic but not too happy. Perfect.
Cloudy days still don't do good things for me. -
A bit precarious, this one is.
At present life is a series of balances. Balances of times, of present and past and future. Balances of people, of friends and family and lover and house community and work. Balances of ideas, ideas that swell and diminish as particular events arise ( Read more... ) -
Many hairs out of place, in fact.
Life is busy busy, but I'm working on bringing it back in. Not forcing order, grasping at structure that doesn't exist, but not being so scattered that I can't have real conversations with anyone because I'm too preoccupied with moments that are to happen in the future.
Things I enjoy at present:
*epic (15-20 minutes) 70s or prog rock songs
*the ( Read more... ) -
The lovely chill.
So today was fall while biking #2, on the Sabo bridge, and again I could see it coming. Time doesn't quite slow down, but as with the first time I slipped a couple of weeks ago, I just knew it was not a possibility but a certainty that I would lose traction and fall to the pavement. Not crash or slam, mind you. It's never really that bad, which ( Read more... ) -
Alive after a respite
So rather than creep on the friends page of my LJ without posting (which I have been prone to doing on a number of pages and forums lately; see MPLS Bike Love and TarckBike) I will announce my presence ( Read more... ) -
Breathing uncertainty blackens the lungs.
It's been a long time. I've graduated, finally, with honors galore that I don't really care much about. Probably should, but it's just another bullshit ego stroking opportunity for those who need it ( Read more... )