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8
Feb

Friday’s truth: capital “i” Intuition

(I forgot to post last night. Too much on my mind. Wee bit frazzled. I need a break.) Yesterday I discovered I have a radial head fracture on my left (and dominant) arm. I have had it since it happened — in August — when I tripped on a street cu… Continue reading →

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7
Feb

Advice of those before me

Today’s truth: I am not always good at taking advice of those who’ve gone before me — *even* when I have solicited their advice. I always want to do it differently, convinced that my experience will be or is unique just because I am me. I’m not t… Continue reading →

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6
Feb

in the quiet

in the quiet in the quiet of the quietest part of my mind that is where the truth is sometimes I lose the truth accidentally because clutter noise mess stress tangles other times the truth is screaming and fluorescent vociferous and lurid and I pr… Continue reading →

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5
Feb

Too busy

Yesterday’s truth was that being busy is an antidote pro-active prevention for loneliness. Saying it like that makes it sound like I planned it this way, when really, I didn’t. It’s just my personality. I’m a busy person. I like to be active. Howe… Continue reading →

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4
Feb

“in your lonely time”

Today a salesgirl asked me this: “What do you do in your lonely time?” She was serious. She asked me this upon learning that I live in Singapore alone. She was selling me a piece of furniture (well, trying to) and was surprised to learn that I was… Continue reading →

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3
Feb

The monkey run

I went for a “run” today. (It wasn’t really a full run.) Because it had just rained, it was wet, so I had to constantly remind myself to be careful. I have fallen twice on the same ankle, sprained and chipped a bone, so I really must be careful. I… Continue reading →

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2
Feb

Home

I struggle with this word. Don’t worry: it’s not a bad struggle. It’s a comfortable struggle. When I say I’m going home, or that I’m at home, or ask you to come to my home, what do I mean, exactly? My home is where I live. But is home also where I… Continue reading →

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1
Feb

Teh kitteh alwayz noze!

Today’s truth came to me very early in the day — not long at all after I had woken up. I do yoga nearly every morning. (I certainly do it every weekday morning.) Usually, Flower — teh kitteh — does yoga with me. Or, at least she thinks she does… Continue reading →

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31
Jan

Some days are better than others

Whenever I have a bad day — not a rip-roaring shit day, but a generally bad day — I think of this track, off one of my favorite albums by what’s certainly my favorite band. It’s impossible to find a version with just the album cover on YouTube (… Continue reading →

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30
Jan

Tone IS subtext

Today I had two brief interactions that stood out to me. The interactions were with two different people. The first was a colleague who spoke to a student, with me. In fact, the colleague was introducing the student to me. It was very brief — may… Continue reading →

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