If I am repaired, can we meet again for the first time, in all of the places I have feared to go, and then, again, in all of the places I will have forgotten, if I am repaired?




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Here is the desk drawer in which all of my odds and ends are kept, tidbits that would otherwise never see the light of day.











Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Dumps and Slumps

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I grew up on a 500 acre farm that had half a dozen barns, ponds, a river, an eternity of forest and a dump, loaded with an inexhaustible supply of old cars and assorted explorable junk. I even had my own BB Gun, a .22 rifle and a bow and arrow. And would you believe that there were days, in the summer time, when I would sit in the house with the sun shining right down on the roof and say, ‘I don’t have anything to do.’

I kind of feel like that right now. I’m sitting here, surrounded by roughly one hundred and fifty of my most favorite books, and I have nothing to say. Not one word. I mean, I do, but it doesn’t feel very interesting… like I’ve already explored the whole dump.

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  1. Down time is good too... it may feel boring but it's refueling... just my 2 cents.. been there...

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  2. I'm having a little down time myself but my experience is that like a recession it doesn't last forever.

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  3. I know what you mean; I get like that sometimes, and the Roomie always gets mad at me: "How can you be bored?? I have 100 lines to translate from Greek, and a Latin poem to write...etc." But, I sympathise with you! :P

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  4. Completely unrelated to your existentialist problems, all I can say, is that I'm really really really glad your posting again!
    Even if it's just to say you're bored :)

    stephanie

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  5. What I really meant to say was... I was surrounded by words and had nothing to say... bad analogy, I guess.

    Stephanie, you know I live only to make you really really really glad.

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  6. It appears then that Stephanie is one of the luckiest people in the world! :D

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  7. Emmy... You're too young for me to say things like that to. But, I love nothing more than to knowing there is a smile on you emoticon's face that I might be responsible for.

    Gwen... Never a need for apologies here... you assumed correctly... if all goes well, I should be refueled by Saturday, at 11:30 A.M.

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