My mind is a bejeweled bag overladen with receipts, gum wrappers and the weight of its adornments.
It’s dangerous writing in a coffee shop, surrounded by game-playing teens and housewives – it tends to pigeon-hole my metaphors. My mind is over-run – I’m full of “myself” – and I thought that writing something down might purge [...]
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What can more boring than talking about not writing? Let’s leave it at that.
Being unable to sleep has made me highly productive this morning. I got a workout in this morning and returned home before anyone else had woken, which meant that I was able to shower and dress and get to the coffee house [...]
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Posted in Writings & Thoughts on Jan 27th, 2009
I’m at a coffee shop again, trying to put the work and internet aside long enough to ruminate on my environment.
I just dropped my mom off at the airport and used the traffic as an excuse to pop by my favorite coffee shop in Seattle. The flagship store for this coffee shop used to be [...]
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Posted in Writings & Thoughts on Oct 24th, 2008
I’ve been pretty ethereal lately, so let me take a couple of seconds to talk about matters of more substance…
I read an article yesterday that deserves some attention. It’s starting to gain a lot of momentum, so many of you may have already read it. It’s an open letter to American newspapers, written by a [...]
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Posted in Writings & Thoughts on Oct 10th, 2008
I think a lot of people are going to have mountaintop experiences soon.
It won’t be right away – everyone has to descend from their pedestal into the valley, where many will live on a diet of dust. I’ve been in the valley for a little while, waiting. I’ve tired of my diet here, and my [...]
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Posted in Offspring, Writings & Thoughts on Oct 4th, 2008
Selah has the cutest way of correcting me. I was reading her a book about marine life the other day, where one of her favorite activities is to point out the different pictures and say “Name?” I tell her the name and she says “Yep” and then moves on to the next animal. Most recently [...]
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