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1984: Chapter 6: The sun sets the star appears
Chapter 6 The sun sets, the star appears Turning the page by moving to Bristol increased my daily intensity. I still needed to pick up my sisters and take them to school. Then an interesting twist. My mother had hired my ex-girlfriend Margie 3 years ago to babysit my half-brother who was now a year… Continue reading
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The passage
It is a remarkable thing to be stuck in a cycle of preparing to change for years. As those changes at long last come to be, i think I feel surprise and disbelief. Where do you go? What is next? Some of these questions inevitably are answered right away. Others take time. But for now… Continue reading
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Hello world!
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Monday morning coming down
Into the night, a life unexpected unravels into adventure and task. It takes all, and provides intense journeys into reward, fatigue, peaks of mountains and depths of valleys, all too opposite of the life that supports it all. In the name of need, of advancement, of recreation, a few short days provide an alternate existence.… Continue reading
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There is a war Part 3
All of my love by Led Zepplin plays in the background as I sit, sipping perfect coffee in front of the campfire after a rainy night. It was 1979. My 14 year old innocence unsuspecting of the daring moves ahead to remove me from my cloud like nativity. That power that pulls a young person into… Continue reading
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When the rain comes
A great cup of coffee, raging fire, sound of light rain drops on the forest. And a four day old earache, relentlessly slapping me, trying to pull me out of this moment. I hate pain. It works hard in so many different ways to take center stage of my life. This morning I am… Continue reading
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It’s coffee time
The coffee watch is on. Those eternal moments in which the combination of propane stove and coffee, percolator make so much noise. It is almost industrial. But then that grand entrance with that first appearance of clear water into the glass perk top shows up, accentuated by the sound of perking coffee that in my… Continue reading
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Return to Coolidge
Coolidge state park. I just realized that we have not camped here in 13 years! That is crazy! We have come up here for the day many times. Several of these memories stand out. The last time we camped here was memorial day weekend of 2010. We had not booked anything in advance and had… Continue reading
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Hanging on
Almost 6 months ago to the day, cold winds blew outside my window, as the woodstove kept us warm and dry inside. My computer screen was lit with hope of a summer day, waking up on top of a mountain in a lean to. I booked a weekend at Coolidge StatePark in Plymouth Vermont. There… Continue reading
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The silver halide forest
Lately, I have been developing film that has been sitting for approximately 20 years. It was never our intention to wait so long. This is a great risk because film’s life quality expectancy is so much less than 2 decades. After researching online for the best option, I determined that Walmart developing still seems to… Continue reading