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Believe it or not, the ivory has mostly yellowed and I am considering turning it in for something more disposable. A piano, perhaps, or a bag of napkins. My sense of value is all distorted, you'd say, but you'd be forgetting the most valuable thing in the world: the thing you you need right now. Now. It's a magical time, a magical place. It is the blade t
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It's night time, and the street lamps have just lit the main streets with an orange glow that I have come to associate with the emptiness of a city at night. A car whizzes past, tiny sparks flying up from a cigarette cast carelessly out the window. The palm trees stir in the wind like restless soldiers; perhaps they are impatient with their charges. Or perhaps they
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I knew the world would never be the same when I saw the adjectives drop to the ground like insects and the adverbs go up in flames like moths in a bonfire. Suddenly I was a tiny piece of my own world view and my notions of reality expanded as if I had been peering at a globe and had suddenly backed up. Vocabulary seemed an exercise in a futility, and I felt my whole
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I came to this a little late, didn't I. Man, those nineteen-year-olds, they sure cause problems. When I was 19, I never would have done anything like that. Dharma, you're a wise woman. I miss your rubber ducky. Dang, I miss JU. Maybe I should start writing again. Dan
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She is, first and foremost, beautiful. Beautiful in that sense that can only be a composite of physical and mental and spiritual and emotional beauty. She is talented and stimulating and comforting and challenging and accepting and inspiring and has contributed to my life to the point where I felt I had no human need that could not be met by her. We've been best fr
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"Whatcha doin' there? '" Well, for a detailed account you can check out my blog about it -- http://hiHUN.blogspot.com -- but in a nutshell, there is not nutshell. There is a pastor here, and I've offered to give him roughly six months of my life to do with as he pleases. I've been involved in everything from setting up cyber cafes to community outreach projects. This month, I'll spend much of my times in Taifer, a poor mountain village. We
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The error in this article is in assuming that because the economy can work one way, it can't work any other way. Sure, the capitalist system is effective, but it's also extremely self-destructive. It begins truly free-market, then regulations are slowly added until the government controls so much that the economy grinds to a halt and passes its load to a newer free market. The US free market is waning, and we're sending far more money out of the cou
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"I didn't know that about Shakespeare. Thanks. Pope probably also deserves capitalization. " I am humbled--I really thought that was Shakespeare. Please accept my apologies; I spoke too soon. (But that's the first time I've ever done that. Really...) Dan
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"God just might be building a strong foundation for you because he knows you're gonna need it to deal with the shit that comes later....hmm?" Hey, we don't like optimists here. Get out! "Or perhaps you can do a bit of penance to ease your guilt. Since you had such a wonderful family life, why not do something for those who don't? Instead of navel-gazing, you could volu
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" We could compare our indiscretions. How much happier, though, that I can identify with your astonishment and gratitude and know exactly what you mean and how you feel. " Dr. Donald, that was beautiful. Downright quotable. A perfect comment, if it were not for one thing: when you quote Shakespeare, "Poet" is capitalized. As for responses: when I have somethi
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JoA - Your post made me blink because I didn't realize at first who wrote it. At least I know I'm still capable of abstraction... Dr. Donald - M'pral, a gras de dieu. (Creole: I will, by the grace of God.) Dr. Guy - My most faithful commenter. It's always a pleasure to see (or whatever verb works) you on JU. And so it seems that reverse chronological is the
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Among all the metaphors that Christian's use to describe God, "Father" is probably the most ubiquitous. "Shepherd" may be right up there, though. Because it's so common, churches spend a lot of time explaining that metaphor, and what it means to be a father. It's no wonder, then, that almost every sermon on the topic includes a clause that sounds something like thi
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Today -- is all gray --and though I fling paint up at the sky, it falls pitifully back down, and somehow the scarlet that seems so cheerful in the sky is not so cheerful in the face. Today I sang amazing grace (the sound was sickly sweet); the irony so thick I gagged, I watched your love retreat. But it's
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"How did you get so wise at such a young age?" Why, I listened to you, of course. Dan
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It’s silly to get all excited about the New Year. After all, isn’t a year just a cultural assignment of meaning to an otherwise meaningless point in time? And what is the New Year but a serial ascension that mirrors precisely the banal progression of one moment to the next. It was 2006 before, and now it’s 2007. Big deal. New Years resolutions? Ridiculou
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"garlic asiago bread is yum! " I couldn't tell you why, but I really want a t-shirt with that on it. "for the record, I love tomatoes, tomato paste, ketchup and all things tomato - except soup!" It's interesting to hear that. I've considered going on record as a world-champion ketchup-eater; I'm the one that has this conversation with the BK drive-through att
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I hadn’t eaten in forty-eight hours. Weak with hunger, I hobbled to the kitchen, clutching a can of tomato soup in a death-grip. My vision warped the house into a nightmarish twilight zone of twisted architecture and impossible angles, but I ignored it all in the bee-line for the microwave. The can had a pull-top lid, but I didn’t have the energy to be gratef
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"spoken in old geezer voice* Makes me remember my old banned days, imprisoned behind the immovable bars of account restrictions. Seems to me that the Dragon has gotten a little more tolerant since my day. Slow to anger he is not, but kudos for the grace to give second chances. -Buddha (No longer in exile)
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"I remember that Dan--and your disappointment. " There's probably not much of a chance of me rectifying that instance this time around, is there. Damn the popularity dynamic. Can I just repost old articles and see if people read them? "pk dan how about I give you the first ever teddy bear disguised as a grump award?" Score! <img src="../images/smiles/bigsmi
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Second annual? Pfft... who remembers this? http://gemcityjoe.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=11676 I distinctly remember being very disappointed that I didn't win on any categories. Oh well... Dan
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"Ah memories! Seems someone has been down that road before. Very good!" Me? No, this was purely theoretical.
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These things always leave me a bit suspicious. But I guess that's just the cynic in me. I'll chip in a bit. Anybody else care to join? Dan
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Why thank you, Sir.
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Here's a really good one: it's flexible, and (as it claims) nearly indestructible. Being quiet is just an added bonus. http://www.shop.com/op/~The_Virtually_Indestructible_Keyboard,_USB,_Black-prod-23972410-31994121?sourceid=3 Dan
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