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Guerrilla Writing
So, someone asked me the other day about my productivity level. Then they said, “Well, you’re young, that helps.” I half-jokingly responded with, “No, I have insomnia, that helps.” They laughed. I laughed. We laughed. Laughter is good. But I thought I would take a minute to actually write out how I go about my life for people. The first thing to know is that only two things will get me up in the morning: teaching (happily) and emergencies (not-so-happily). Therefore, my schedule is a little weird to most people. I’ll write out an average day with not teaching and one with teaching. Average Day Without Teaching: Get up @…
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Reflections on a younger self…
So, after reading roughly 3,000 handwritten pages of my own writing I have come to several conclusions. 1. I was WAAAAAAY more knowledgeable at the age of 11 than I thought I was. At 11 I had connected the fact that trauma and abuse leads to alcoholism. Now, as I grew up in Seattle during the 80s and 90s, maybe its not such a stretch that I understood addiction, but I don’t remember really understanding alcoholism at the time. So far as I remember I thought of drugs and alcohol as two separate things. 2. My handwriting changes with the wind, time, thought, and mood. I had handwriting so perfect…
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I often wonder…
As my brain has died from over-stuffing it with Japanese today I find myself wondering things that I often wonder but that I do not know if other people wonder. So, I suppose I’m wondering if you wonder about the same things. (Which sounds almost like a Pinky & the Brain moment). Why is beauty all around us and we miss it because we get all mixed up in the ugly? Why do people over analyze EVERYTHING Obama does? If people realize that historically, all great nations and empires fall. That’s not a prediction or a threat, it’s a simple statement of fact. We, America, the current “greatest nation in…