Obsessions
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Be water, my friend. ~Bruce Lee
Time is fluid and always surges, predictably, second by second. To live in Mexico is to be water, and the time here often makes me ask myself if I am dreaming. Something like a trip to the airport can take 30 mins or 3 hours, depending on the fluidity of traffic. If a motorcyclist made…
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self…himself…he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. ~ Oliver Sacks
I’ve lost myself in the city. In all of its hustle and bustle. Things sometimes are better off said with pictures. The problem with that is that pictures don’t always keep time. I found the grave of Scatman Crothers the other day. I stood there with Scatman and his wife and regarded the day, sun…
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy. ~Henry David Thoreau
Thank goodness Henry David Thoreau spent so much time alone. I think if he hadn’t, he may not have been able to write as much. I found this wonderful blog a while back of his writings- It makes him there for me, on my phone, when I need him. http://blogthoreau.blogspot.com/ It’s an amazing thing, melancholy.…
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