i have a godson who dreams in sign language | who watches baby einstein dvd's | voraciously | who signs a lot more than his mom and my older cousin who kept me out of gangs | who taps his elbow for orange juice and carries a cup of unsweetened cheerios | a professor of curiosity with a degree of innocence | who cries out epiphanies we have yet to ( Read more... )

last friday night i found out that it's not a security breech to pee into a large ivar's cup while the airplane is descending and the seat belt lights are on

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The TV hurls out images that reproduce the system and voices that echo it, and there is no spot on earth it does not reach. The entire planet is a huge suburb of Dallas. We eat imported emotions as if they were canned sausages while the young children of television, trained to watch life instead of making it, shrug their shoulders.

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"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing." ~ Mother Teresa

sluffin' | on running | on eating healthy | on the political work | on working out | on the reading | on the writing | financial dieting | etc. etc. | guru pete used to say | "you lose in a week what you gain in a month" | the problem is that in the last month i've ( Read more... )

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“When the colonized intellectual writing for his people uses the past he must do so with the intention of opening up the future, of spurring them into action and fostering hope. But in order to secure hope, in order to give it substance, he must take part in the action and commit himself body and soul to the national struggle ( Read more... )

i remember when she used to walk me across the overpass towards the ferry terminals to bainbridge after my mom and dad dropped us off on 1st ave | when she cooked ichiban for me in the morning when i was still in the 1st grade | when she used to play solitaire in the kitchen by the window | when she worked tirelessly in the raspberry fields after ( Read more... )