I know that the Corn Palace is in South Dakota, my dear, and I think you are the very one who told me about it one time. For that and for so many other things I'm lucky to have you as a friend. I'm grateful for it on a daily basis.
Oh honey..what a great thing to read at the beginning of my day. I've been all sorts of possessed lately with things like bad karma and personal ruin and death. This makes me feel good. :)
I'm glad to be your friend. Honored, actually. Even if you didn't go to Twangfest.
I don't think I know many people who would give their lives up to this point an A-. You're very fortunate to have lived well. As for me, I think I'd grade mine a B-. Maybe a B--. If I were staring death in the face, I think I'd have a lot of regrets and thoughts about things I could have done and should have done. But that would be no one's fault but my own.
I'm just not sure how you give yourself a B-, although technically that is above average. Regrets only stay regrets, you know, almost always there isn't anything we can do but allow them to stay that way. Also I've come to find out that so many things we think is a big deal, the other person doesn't share that sentiment. But then again, it always seems to be the things we don't think about are what bothers other people. :/
So finetune your communication and let me see you at at least a B+ this time next year, Andrea Marie.
You may not be sure how I give myself a B-, but you aren't me. People on the outside never view someone's life they same way they view it from the inside.
Now it sounds like you're in prison. :) "You all on the outside don't know how things are in here. I had to cut a guy's throat with a shoelace so I could keep my pancake sticks."
for the record, Tokyo has been most important as the experience of going to a new town, meeting new people that are nothing like me, flirting, laughing until I can't stand straight after a friend's Korn cover band plays, etc.
It's all shit I could've done in East Jesus Nowhere back home, really. The ads I can't read and shrines I don't understand just reinforce that, if anything.
I'd love to go to Japan..maybe not so much Tokyo, but Kyoto, or even Okinawa. It isn't that I'm a big fan of Japanese culture, especially the kind of stuff that tends to make it over here, but I think if you haven't seen Japan, you haven't seen the world.
So, now I have to pull Joyce out of my reading list, eh? Actually, I've read a few of the classics and each reinforced that lit snobs are like art snobs are like wine snobs. All snobs it seems, are dissatisfied until they've refined their "tastes" to the point that no one but other snobs can agree with them. Give me Norman Rockwell over a Picasso any day, and a $2 bottle of Sangria over the most refined wine
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see, you're very *very* good at communicating and there is a kind of touch in that, for sure. you are sort of poking some ethereal spot involving brain and heart, memory, the soul muscle that almost hurts.
I want you to get some massage, man. for the headaches.
I've never had a massage before, other than those impromptu ones from other people, but like a real professional one, nuh uh. It isn't that I'm against the idea. Maybe I'll get one when my friend Matthew comes to town during that whole "day of beauty" we have planned. I don't know about him, but I sure do need one.
And thank you, I'm just writing from all directions right now. Like I said the other day..sometimes it's easier than I thought, other days it's more impossible than I could imagine.
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I'm glad to be your friend. Honored, actually. Even if you didn't go to Twangfest.
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Someday I'm gonna visit Missouri and, well, Missouri won't ever forget it.
PS... the Camera Obscura song is especialy lovely.
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So finetune your communication and let me see you at at least a B+ this time next year, Andrea Marie.
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I'll work on that B+. :)
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But I know what you're saying..
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It's all shit I could've done in East Jesus Nowhere back home, really. The ads I can't read and shrines I don't understand just reinforce that, if anything.
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Tickets are cheap, aren't they? I should go.
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I want you to get some massage, man. for the headaches.
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And thank you, I'm just writing from all directions right now. Like I said the other day..sometimes it's easier than I thought, other days it's more impossible than I could imagine.
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here's to many Days Of Beauty ahead.
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They're good stuff, though.
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