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    Skinny girls have it too? GOOD!! You made my day!
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    ...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    Girls, they’re funny, but still
    they have something, you know?
    They might be skinny
    as a stalk of stinkweed and walk with a list,
    but still...

    Or there might be three of them
    on their way home from school
    like cupcakes leaning together,
    t-shirts hanging out
    over regulation black shorts...

    And then they grow up
    to be women.
    They are exactly what you portrayed. Maybe boys to before they grow into full blown manhood. Funny and therefore interesting in their babyhood and mature and they lose the sheen of life.

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    A woman prowls
    one of the aisles at Loblaw’s
    crackers
    rice cakes
    tinned meat
    tinned fish
    soup
    treading cautiously
    on the balls of her feet
    lest she alert her prey
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    And don't some go about this like a hunt? I have been snorted at while an old woman paws the floor, head down for charging, over the last 3 cans of chicken broth at Thanksgiving.

    I liked the aisle effect.

    Sounds like a very austere diet, though.

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    I feel like a behind for being so behind on this thread. I am enjoying it very much! What a wonderful little book this would be bound up in a cover that looks like a small photo album.
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

    "If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor

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    "I think, therefore I am."
    Descartes
    I think, therefore I am Descartes.
    Newman
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    "I think, therefore I am."
    Descartes
    I think, therefore I am Descartes.
    Newman



    Well, the forum's against my alacritous comments!
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    ...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.

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    Two bicyclists
    glide by on Fairmount
    as if in slow motion.
    I watch them.

    I continue to watch them.
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    strange. how strange.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kelby_lake View Post
    strange. how strange.
    Would you elaborate, please, on what you find strange about this?
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    Would you elaborate, please, on what you find strange about this?
    Maybe you should have blinked. Sorry, I don't know what is strange either.
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

    "If you're going to write you better have somewhere to come from." Flannery O'Connor

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    A woman walks by
    so lightly
    she carries the sound of her footsteps
    away with her
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    "I think, therefore I am."
    Descartes
    I think, therefore I am Descartes.
    Newman
    I think
    I like
    this!


    A woman walks by
    so lightly
    she carries the sound of her footsteps
    away with her
    Beautiful, I can picture her now.
    Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
    ~Albert Einstein

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    Like a procession of pelicans
    a troupe of high-school seniors
    waddled efficiently down the lane ahead of me
    in identical white T-shirts, black shorts,
    their legs pumping
    in and out of synch,
    a visual symphony.
    "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi

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    Quote Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin View Post
    Two bicyclists
    glide by on Fairmount
    as if in slow motion.
    I watch them.

    I continue to watch them.
    It's strange
    BECAUSE
    WELL I wrote a 2000 word essay on WHY
    but my computer froze (f---ing idiot!)
    It's strange BECAUSE
    It's slow motion because of the perception of the viewer, not the movement of the bicyclists.
    Or not.
    Time is perception,
    but if there's nothing there to perceive (the bicyclists are gone)
    why is that nothing still measured by time. Is it something else?
    Or are they just one...
    some merging of the other person into yourself, so that you lose that person for a moment, but gain that person as your self,
    so time stops because they don't cease to exist in your world -
    they don't MOVE AWAY, they stay FOREVER.

    heehee.

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