Off the Mark

I went back through my posts of the last two months and there isn’t much explicit mention of the best distraction a boy could ask for. I think the first (and one of 2, maybe 3) explicit reference is in the post “Living room talk.” There are certainly several other references that were mostly for […]

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2 views on the slipperiness of words:
Words are clumsy tools. And it is very easy to cut one’s fingers with them, and they need the closest attention in handling; but they are the only tools we have, and the imagination itself cannot work without them.
(Frankfurter 1947: 546) as quoted in Harris, R., & Hutton, C. […]

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I got a quick IM from a friend the other night wondering how I was doing as I have been quiet lately.
Yes. Yes I have.
There are a lot of reasons for this. Some of it is lack of time to do all the things I’d like to. There are probably other reasons, too, in certain […]

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Atlanta’s a distant memory
Montgomery a recent blur
and Tulsa burns on the desert floor
like a signal fire
I got Willie on the radio
a dozen things on my mind
and number one is fleshing out
these dreams of mine
Cowboy Junkies — 200 More Miles
A little over a week ago I wrote to a handful of those I consider myself […]

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Today has been a fairly laid-back day. Considering.
I got up at 10-ish and have been on slow ever since. Pauline & Kathryn’s class was having a reading day and I decided to forego more Protégé work this evening in Allen’s class. We will be doing more next week.
So I have been giving myself a […]

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Truthfully, I will not be addressing that directly as such. Much more oblique will be my comments.
But first some initial resources:

Martin Luther King Day at Wikipedia
High as the Listening Skies, Loud as the Rolling Sea at Ramblings by Laura Crossett.
Search Engines Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day via Resource Shelf.

Five years ago today—well, it was […]

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I went to Falls Church, Virginia to visit family and friends 20 - 29 December. I got home yesterday evening. Drove to Bloomington (1 hour) and flew through Detroit to Dulles and back again.
Going out of Bloomington vs. Champaign is about $150 cheaper round trip and parking is free, which is a substantial savings. BMI […]

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Life. What the fuck is that anyway? How do we know if we’re living it?
Mama I’m strange
The thoughts and the wants are the locks on the back of my brain
Melissa Etheridge. “Mama I’m Strange.” breakdown.
Last week ended … weirdly. In a flattering way mind you, but nonetheless weirdly. One could do with more of (parts […]

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you could always hear the rub squeaking
of those two tree limbs
’til one day one of them came down
taken down by the wind
but on the one that’s still there
you can still see where the bark was
rubbed bare
it’s a metaphor
if you know what i mean
Ani DiFranco ¤ “how have you been” ¤ out of […]

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This post is technically only for me, but feel free…. It is, in effect, a manually constructed “del.icio.us post” to collect the comments that I have made in the last day or so on issues of language. Oh, and some added-on self-analysis and rumination.
Books
See Also…, A study of scanning habit : a couple […]

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