Monthly Archives: November 2012

McCartney Memories

“Dear sir or madam, will you read my book?                                                                     It took me years to write. Won’t you take a look?”                                                               -Paul McCartney, “Paperback Writer” • Confession: The “cute” Beatle, the one many girls liked best, was, initially and for a … Continue reading

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Lastly

“And in the end, the love you take/Is equal to the love you make.”–Paul McCartney Icebergs–there is always so much we cannot see or know of one another even of ourselves. I would think those with imagination, love, faith, desire … Continue reading

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Turning North

“I know what it’s like to freeze to death.”–James Taylor, “The Frozen Man” There are replicas of the better parts of us, hidden here in an ice floe at the top of the world. You always liked walking on ice … Continue reading

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6+ Questions for Adult Life

1. What is my bliss? What do I like? What am I into? What am I passionate about? What can I lose myself in/distract myself with? What is positively engaging, immersive, and distracting in my life? 2. What am I good … Continue reading

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The Newcomer

And with the arrival of new life arrives a surge of warmth, pleasure, engagement, wonder, joy, meaning and purpose such as you have not known in a very long time. And you will rediscover play and, most important of all, … Continue reading

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Love’s Not Easy

I think we’re gonna break up Yes it’s time for us to make up our minds We hardly know each other More like sister, more like brother Love takes time. You dream of knights in armour I imagine I’m a … Continue reading

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And shall I say

And shall I say my hand is warm & knows yours well, has touched yours many ways in the air of afternoons? And shall I say that I have walked on snow with you by rivers & laughed to hear … Continue reading

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Rare/st

In terms of connection, closeness, and intimacy, there is nothing like completely knowing someone else or being completely known by someone else. That is the rarest and ultimate of all relationships. To be that open, giving and accepting, savouring and … Continue reading

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Nov. 20

“The stars are in one’s brain.”–Bertrand Russell (attributed to, by R.D. Laing in The Politics of Experience) …………………………………………………………………………………………. …in that life, as experienced by the individual, is primarily and mostly a subjective affair, and that our sense of others and … Continue reading

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The infinite possibilities

of the day, the myriad possible personal choices in that same duration of clock time. And then the imagination, memory, and those unending dreams of presence and closeness…

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