In need of a sanity break - a spot of refuge.
Not that anything needs hidden, I need the quiet. To be alone with my thoughts.

what might i want to tell some of you, that i might not want to tell all of you? privacy, or a question between caring & usefulness...? (i am terrible) then, should need arise to call, of all among you ~ who might answer? or if i save my crises for the daylight hours, who then? but, how can i ask such things when i only sometimes answer my own cel ( Read more... )

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Two hours of writing (so little for such time), another hour waiting, poised - ready to send the letter, but hesitating there.

There, drop the letter down the slot, and wait.

And wait.

Days? How long, now? Sick of waiting.
What was the hesitation, then? What I said, did I say it all? Did I say anything...?

I could find solace in religion ( Read more... )

Me, a vegetarian?
Once upon a time, I thought over the question of meat. Specifically, on my right to eat it. Is it wrong to eat it? (if eating animals is wrong, why are they made of meat?) I thought for a long time about this. I decided that I could eat meat if I could kill it. I didn't have to - it wasn't a matter of only eating what I killed and ( Read more... )

What they say now about what happened 65,000,000 years ago.

The two versions have identical first and second paragraphs.

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just now i went and got my painting from the bar. no last paycheck yet... she's going downhill, i think, mentally. business, she finally put an ad in the connect! woah! but for being nine on a friday, there were zero people in there. the guy was gone? when i came in, she was mixing some bean dip, just staring into it... she didn't even say hello, ( Read more... )

Found a job, lost it, found another maybe ( Read more... )