Tag: life
group name: gatherbest
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April 09, 2006 05:09 PM EDT --
What Can You Do With One Arm?
A month or so ago I was working at the rock climbing wall at work. This wall has twelve degrees of difficulties. One being the easiest and twelve the most complicated. The . . . more
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October 22, 2006 03:13 PM EDT --
Those of you interested in this subject might be interested in the conversation on this same post at this site:
http://rochester.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=394918
For most of my life, I have suffered . . . more
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November 25, 2006 05:22 AM EST --
Dear Santa 07: Baghdad
Dear Santa, please listen up!
I'm a grunt, just a soldier, in Iraq on my second tour of duty; and I loathe the place and everyone in it. . . . more
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August 06, 2006 12:45 PM EDT --
As I begin the downward descent on the arc that is my life, I sometimes fear that I?m going to end up like my Aunt Marion: alone, angry, and crazy as a loon.
Aunt Marion was always a little nutty, and . . . more
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April 17, 2006 12:36 AM EDT --
Originally entered in the Travel Writing Contest, I am now posting to new groups.
Being handed a hot cloth after a long night's flight was a nice gesture, but mine was so hot that I was surprised . . . more
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December 04, 2006 01:40 PM EST --
for Douglas Gilbert, sensitive teacher, soulful poet, wise children's storyteller, who has taught me new ways to express brotherly love in the emptiness.
Note: I wrote the first draft of this poem . . . more
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March 22, 2006 06:03 PM EST --
In my last post, I spoke of the editorial process that had taken place without yet having a signed contract. I had received editorial suggestions from the editor/.publisher and my edits in response . . . more
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December 04, 2006 10:55 PM EST --
I wrote this little piece for the benefit of my editing/coaching clients who were beginning the daunting task of sending out manuscripts for publication. I thought there might be readers . . . more
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March 11, 2006 09:25 AM EST --
We here in Boston are weird. Not only do we drop our r's a lot when we talk, we have some unique phrases. Take a read at these...
Packie. The package or liquor store. "The packie is a . . . more
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May 07, 2006 01:01 PM EDT --
Where lie eternity's mansions?
Do they loom within the nuclei of atoms?
Unchanged while civilizations die?
Even 4.5 billion rings around the sun
Is not eternity.
Or is it,
For this world . . . more
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January 22, 2007 11:25 PM EST --
The wind brushes the lace curtain against the side of my face as I peer out my window. The silence is almost eerie, the night captured in a snapshot of the moon to be hidden in a photograph album . . . more
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January 23, 2006 07:06 PM EST --
Why is it that as I post this picture of me, I hear the music from Psycho! Do not be afraid though, it is only little ol' me! You've often wondered (or maybe not) what I look like, . . . more
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April 01, 2006 03:25 AM EST --
You see him
Alone
Looking down on the sidewalk
Scuffing his feet
Pacing
Back and forth
He looks up
His cloudless eyes
Looking for a friendly face
. . . more
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June 20, 2008 09:59 AM EDT --
One of the artists paints my garage wall.
Two years ago, taggers hit the side of my garage that faces one of my New Mexican town's alleys, hit it with white aerosol spray in the shape . . . more
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April 29, 2006 04:50 PM EDT --
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You have got to read the above article. I was spell bound and bewitched while reading it... I think it is an excellent pick for the editors.. . . . more
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January 03, 2006 05:05 AM EST --
I have a theory that to be a truly good writer, you have to have at least a little mental illness: it allows writers to see all the spectrums we write about. Many of the great writers of the past . . . more
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January 10, 2006 10:38 PM EST --
Do you know your Myers-Briggs Personality Type? I am an ENFP. I learned this by taking a personality test administered by my therapist, but I have also taken some for free on the Internet. . . . more
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February 20, 2006 01:40 PM EST --
You are insane. Just admit it. Get over yourself and admit it! Now, don't you feel better? To truly be insane, one must learn the art of coddled insanity.
The benefits . . . more
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December 18, 2006 10:52 AM EST --
for Barbary Chaapel, world weaver with no wasted words, for me perhaps Gather's finest poet of archived perception.
I slide my robe on like a sly robot
executing a crafty HAL 9000 command
and leap . . . more
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August 28, 2007 09:53 PM EDT --
A young man I know fell off an outcropping of granite this summer, fell eight vertical feet, fell into a six-week land of cast and crutch and exotic metal pins. Shattered tibia. Surgery. June plans as . . . more
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