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i made a lot of mistakes
i made a lot of mistakes
i made a lot of mistakes
i made a lot of mistakes

Murray says it is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America. We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields. Soon the signs started appearing. THE MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN [...]

that you told me just to tell me later that you told me so /
come flooding back to me now

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no [...]

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann

Karma Repair Kit: Items 1 – 4, by Richard Brautigan
1. Get enough food to eat, and eat it.
2. Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there.
3. Reduce intellectual [...]

I do remember God’s love, that year in Ada’s when I was eight, and Liam was nine. I remember it very clearly. Sister Benedict told us to take Jesus ‘into our hearts’ and I did, no problem. I check my heart now, and I find that there is still a feeling there, [...]

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your [...]

I’ve been texting more lately (thanks mostly to Heather, Alex and maybe a little Dawn) and was just looking through my cell phone’s custom dictionary, where it puts the words that I have to teach it how to spell. It made me realize that the “custom” words we use are a nice little snapshot [...]