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To “let go” does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else. To “let go” is not to enable, but to allow the realization I can’t control another. To “let go” is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands. To “let go” is not to try to change or blame another, it is to make the most of myself. To “let go” ( Read more... ) -
Nightmare
In my dream, there are cardboard boxes marked with letters and numbers (not names). I stand with the others in clots and clusters, waiting to collect a box. Size and shape and heft vary; some are perhaps more than 6 feet long and perhaps 2 feet wide, but others are smaller, and many are quite light. They do not contain the whole ( Read more... ) -
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“I promise I shall never give up, & that I’ll die yelling & laughing.” - Jack Kerouac -
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Muffins and pastries
Free food waits in the breakroom
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Time crawls in this cage
I escape at intervals
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Runaway Robot
Someone asked me recently how I got interested in science-fiction; he assumed, wrongly I think, that sci-fi is rarely read by women. Sexism aside, it jogged my memory. The first science-fiction book I remember vividly is Runaway Robot by Lester Del Rey. My grandmother bought it from a yard sale (possibly for my brother rather than for me, but since ( Read more... ) -
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Every day think of a way to delight yourself, and a way to delight someone else. -
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Stress is an ignorant state, it believes that everything is an emergency ... Breathe -
Luck
A headache finally caught up with me yesterday, complicating my journey slightly. I was heading west on 40, scanning roadside signs for lodging, around 5 p.m. I took a random exit because it promised a Budget Inn, but no Budget Inn was immediately apparent, and then the deluge. For about 10 minutes it rained buckets. Then the sky cleared and I got ( Read more... )