August 2009
18 posts
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Possibility
When I grow up I wanna be a 3:30 a.m. loaf of bread at a bakery on the back street of a neighborhood where the first customer in the bakery is the same woman that’s done so for 32 years except for that one day it snowed so very much overnight. MJC
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Loam
It recently occurred to me that there is an enormous paradox in parental or others admonitions to be on one’s best behavior. Carried through to actions and choices and understandings of first impressions it really isn’t the best behavior anyone wants to know about. In fact the really interesting part of a person is rarely found in their best behavior. Relationships neither coalesce or end based on...
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Overheard
“Ya know, it’s not so much that I, um, resent him for leaving, but, um, that he ate the cookies before he went. Ya know?” - from the greeting card isle where a flourescent tube was flickering above. MJC
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Applied Physics
When I was younger I tried to be very environmental. Among other things I gave money to the prominent organizations of the moment and hoped they would lobby political concerns for a better world. To restore a better quality of balance to local environments I thought the reintroduction of native predator mammals would be a great benefit and add a bit of excitement to daily life. Today, maturity has...
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Possibility
When I grow up I wanna be a worn out sticky “f” key that only works when the humidity is less than 50 percent on a BlackBerry that is always in a left hand suit jacket pocket. MJC
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Possibility
When I grow up I wanna be an inaccurate 1,326 year old fact that is erroneously added to a reference on Wikipedia in an entry no one ever reads. MJC
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Bedrock
After seventy thousand years of unrelenting foundation beliefs constructed around scarcity it might be time to consider a change. If we deeply and profoundly believed scarcity originating in fear and grown in competition and acquisition were the only way to live, the one true way, then it would be enough. It would be seen to work and work in fact. That it is not today and has not ever worked...
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Possibility
When I grow up I wanna be an occasional squeak in an ill-fitting infrequently worn pair of brown shoes. MJC
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Sitting On The Doorstep
Thinking about the nature of story we share when we speak of others. The slightly hushed tones of judgement laden stories suggesting the question can you believe he did that or that she said that, or what were they thinking, too often falls short of reaching real understanding. Cloaked in suggestions of failure or success and varying degrees therein, we rarely consider the whole story. We...
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Veiled Current
There is a bewildering amount of daily detail that any two people need to share in any given moment. What if all that detail we’re paused for an hour? What would you choose to share if you could talk about anything? How does that choice define what you hold dear and what you fear? How would it shape your relationship when the other person listened? MJC
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Binary
Perception? - Truth? MJC
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Sketch
The fourth question to ask about interior dwelling design - how much flexible use personal space will be available? Regardless of cultural underpinnings, dwellings need to provide some balance in space that is both for all residents and for individual residents. Provision for even the most minimal opportunity for expression and experimentation of expression of self is vital in the personal space...
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Possibility
When I grow up I wanna be a drip of water on the outside of a glass of lemonade. MJC
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Bedrock
We tend toward like and dislike as the qualifying guides for all we encounter in our life’s travels. These become meta-descriptors that often say little acting only to hide our truest, and most vulnerable, understandings.
Sometimes like and dislike are spoken with great authority and wrapped in highly skilled technical language. Other times they are very spare and used only as dividers to...
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Overheard
“ I think it’s time for a fundamental change in my life. Starting tomorrow I’m eating evening food in the morning and morning food in the evening .” - leaning against an oak tree as the thinnest sliver of a crescent moon stood upon the horizon. MJC
