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Diary roulette . . .

5/30/2013

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Sometimes I use my own books to answer my own questions.  Today I wanted to read the actual day, May 30th.  That would seem so easy and it's never that easy.  No, so it's Diary Roulette again . . . it's August 23rd . . . all four years, in order:
-- Why would you sit around waiting for anyone to decide your life for you?
-- In my mind I’ve made the best you I can possibly make.
-- You are . . . manifest destiny.
-- “I know that.”
Laughing, they were right, I did answer my own questions my  own self, seemingly light years ago . . . that made my day.

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THINK - September 23

8/1/2012

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September 23
You said I was missing in action for nine days. I wasn’t missing in action; I was with a friend.  We discussed everything we could think, both of us taking notes, changing subjects, pulling files, rounding theories as fast as we could for somewhere near entire days and nights run on for a week and more. I was thinking in action for nine days. I haven’t had that much fun thinking with someone else in years.


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THINK - April 8

6/8/2012

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April 8

A lot of people believe that what backs our “money” is gold or at least
something of some kind of intrinsic and real value.  What really values money is the collective belief that money has value; that it has to have value.  Put that one in your wallet for a second . . . I’m not kidding.


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THINK - June 11

6/8/2012

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June 11

My term “firewood forest” is based on what I consider the responsible, positive understanding of my inability to create the proper stacking pattern for firewood.

I have decided that within the tree’s transition, my logs wish to be in a more natural formation. I considered using the word “pile” and I decided, that pile, while arguably an adequate term for the formation existent in my yard, it did not acknowledge my gratitude for the transition of wood to ash, keeping me warm. It’s not a pile that keeps me warm at
night; it’s a forest.


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THINK - June 16

6/8/2012

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June 16

I remember exactly my first lesson in “meditation”. What they called a “meditation” session was really an exercise in guided imagery and that made no difference to me, certainly not during that summer camp.

All 120 of us campers were sitting on the floor of the recreation hall where a woman was talking to us about having the ability to meditate, to relax. I listened intently, as intently as I could. At 12, I was sitting next to the boy I knew I would love for the rest of my life. Soon, we were all lying down on the concrete while she talked us through the exercises of relaxing our bodies. Everybody relaxed. You could feel it. I could feel it.

She asked us to imagine ourselves a stick of butter on a hot summer day, she told us all to feel ourselves melt into the floor.  I actually became that stick of butter, melting as if I was in a microwave, that quick, right into the floor. My eyes flew open in abject fear right before I had
entirely melted my stick butter self into the floor and I laid there waiting for the “meditation”
to be over. My fascination with the power of my mind had begun.

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THINK - March 18

6/8/2012

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March 18

Note to Indigos especially, to Indigos specifically:  The aura is
an effect, not a cause.

And . . . ipso facto, auras are dynamic, always changing . . . trust me,
being an Indigo is not a birth right bestowed on you for a lifetime, it’s an earned right and you must be the one to hold that right real . . . aura fields never lie.


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THINK - December 12

6/8/2012

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December 12

In the South, I don’t know if it’s everywhere, if someone has the “rudeness” to ask if you like something that you’ve obviously not made a positive comment about, you’re allowed to comfortably lie telling the truth with
meaning:


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THINK - October 12

6/8/2012

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October 12
Imagine how ridiculous you would feel when you recognize that your target audience is smarter than you are . . . by far and away smarter than you are. You just laugh.

Laughing,


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THINK - May 29

6/8/2012

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May 29
I wrote: “His first kiss allowed me to know that something I thought real, is real.  It is beyond real, it is true. He knew it and I knew it.”

 I could expound for hours, for days, for years, and that’s enough said.  Although, if you’re reading this, I’ve done little except expound on that for
the last 25 years of journals and diaries.


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THINK - May 30

6/8/2012

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May 30
For a while I secretly believed that clowns knew they were scary. I thought
they were trying to be funny because they really were scary. That seemed
irrational to everybody. It made more sense to me when I understood what being an empath meant.

The first clown I saw was scary. More and more I believe that there was a reason to be scared of that clown.  At six, I didn’t understand it might just be that one clown. All the clowns, even clown dolls were heaped together in my mind. Now, thankfully I have recognized that not all clowns are the same.

Moral of that story: If I hadn’t let all clowns off my first clown hook I’d have missed the performances of Cirque d’Soleil. I’d have missed Patch Adams.


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