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The Nearness of You

Proximity is everything.

Posted on August 11, 2017Categories observationsLeave a comment on The Nearness of You

Some polite, if not exactly friendly, unsolicited advice . . .

Just a note to our current president, and to anybody else similarly inclined: saying “just kidding” is no excuse for being an asshole.

Posted on August 1, 2017Categories observationsLeave a comment on Some polite, if not exactly friendly, unsolicited advice . . .

love . . .

We fall in love with who we are not, in order to become who we wish to be.

Posted on May 19, 2017May 23, 2017Categories observationsLeave a comment on love . . .

circus act . . .

Writing for me is like walking blindfolded along a high-wire. I can see vague shapes through the mask, but I never know whether my next step will carry me forward, or send me plummeting to what I imagine to be a flat and unforgiving ground.

Posted on May 18, 2017May 25, 2017Categories observationsLeave a comment on circus act . . .

inheritance . . .

There is Ireland, and there’s the Irish, and then there’s the dreams of their descendants, who know nothing of either, but have the money to pay for a taste of it.

Posted on February 1, 2017May 23, 2017Categories observationsLeave a comment on inheritance . . .

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