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  sometimes, at times, maybe even at frequent intervals: I wondered if it was worth it the delicacy, the articulacy, of “friendships”, “friends” and all “companionships” that have that platonica and agape in its wake: wakes like storms and funerals, funereal in my word choice. Pondering this because all my chronologia, my genealogies added on

It’s Probably a Metaphor but…

Originally posted on Waiting Outside of Parnassus:
The great evil rears it ugly head once more. One of the few memories from high school that stands out to me is a substitute teacher struggling to teach twenty bored teenagers about William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheel Barrow.” He asked the class, “What does the color…

playings

things playing with a  staticity; owning me in their random chessboard of sepulchre knights with the queen in nights and day-borne sentry seeing the kings so sombre pressing me into games I played and played why is it that though I play by the rules agreed by others and hope for respectful mutuals I gain

How friendship is a “non-friendly” babushka doll concept

The french word “Être” is a multitudinous organism. It has multiple applications but it’s general English meaning is “to be” — yeah, despite French’s concreteness which is shared by many languages the word “to be” is as flexible as the circumflex across its head. The French poet, Andre Breton, had written the poem, The Verb To

something about being friends

  hoping you would understand the relevance of me carrying a slight dash of your tears in my eyes for a grief given to you to yet I cried…hoping that weeping for you adjusted that atlas weight you carried… chaptering on some faraway wishes, I thought we were “we” did not mean to be just

Of Toxic People

Originally posted on Of Opinions:
Source: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1572869/thumbs/o-DEPRESSION-facebook.jpg I’ll make a wild guess and say that the word “toxic,” when used to describe a person and not a substance, is probably an American invention. I presume if a person would be described as toxic in the olden days, it would be someone who literally wants to…

Gathering Moss

detlef schrempf – the song.

Originally posted on Wandering Spirit:
I started listening to a group called Band of Horses a few years ago. I don’t like very many of their songs, but a few of them are some of the best songs I have ever heard. My favorite Band of Horses song is called “Detlef Schrempf.”  When I read…

Charcoal grilling might be adding carcinogens to your meat. Why doesn’t that bother you?

Originally posted on Puff the Mutant Dragon:
In the early 1770s London doctor Percival Pott noticed something strange about the chimneysweeps in his town: an unusually high percentage of them had a rare form of cancer. Most chimneysweeps at that time were boys under the age of fifteen because kids were better at squeezing into…

On the World Around Us: A Sampling of Science Blogs

Originally posted on The WordPress.com Blog:
We love writers who are constantly curious — asking questions, digging deeper, and always learning about the world around us. Here are some science bloggers to add to your reading list: The Renaissance Mathematicus The self-proclaimed “aging freak” at Renaissance Mathematicus writes about the history, philosophy, and mythology of…