In class this AM

She looks around smiling and with excitement at the antics of some of the other kids. There’s no envy there, just a selfless shared enthusiasm.

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20 yrs

It’s been that long. There was love and there was desire to negotiate (ongoing), and family to create (also ongoing). These are of course the things most to live for, and out of which the only good can come. It took me time, but now here I am, ready to engage again. 12/5/06

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Raising Kids

Something about raising kids as a blessing because it certainly keeps you insulated from wondering what it’s all about (life, that is, and if you haven’t quite sewn that question up..) So when the terrors come back to you at least they’re novel and so have a kind of beauty about them. You haven’t been…

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Born Adaptors

The thing about our being so adaptable. We could be born into any world, no matter how fantastic, and would take it for granted. This might explain the persistence of culture as nurture, the staying power of so many elaborate beliefs. Born and reared by them we know no better, yet they become us, they…

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Hart and Sevi – Halloween Night ’06Post-trick or treating…

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Pictures for the Children

We’re taking picturesof things that will no longer exist.They will resent usfor rubbing it in.The fresh dew, the leaves, the abundanceNow a leather fruit engineered to withstandthe boiling rain is what they’re givenWe had it all, the fresh dew, the cares free.They will resent us for rubbing it in.

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Movie: Down in the Valley

A reverent mixture of Taxi Driver & Badlands, with maybe a dash of Shadow of a Doubt (although I never really saw that movie all the way through for some reason). Norton’s performance is incandescent and the script holds its own for almost 2/3 of the movie. Unfortunately, aside from the father’s (David Morse) great…

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