Learning a language that does not use our alphabet is difficult. It is being thrown into water but never being taught to swim. It is driving blindfolded. It is a bike for the first time without training wheels… There is nothing to hang onto because the alphabet is not the same. The letters are not…
Author: Ed Hale
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Today in French class the teacher showed a recent news piece from French television about the visit from gw bush and his meeting with French prime minister Chirac. Having not subscribed to TV for the last six months, I felt sickened from it and filled with anxiety, so I left the room. My skin was…
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New York is snowing now. We have a blizzard here. it has not stopped snowing since 4pm. It is now 10pm. Everywhere you look it is covered in white…. it is quite beautiful. I am sitting in the window box of my bedroom as I do every night with the window open, smoking a cigar…
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Studying the language of Farsi/Persian now. tough stuff. But as I learn more about their history I feel a longing to get closer… to find more connection… plus I am really digging their music right now. Current spin: jay z, black album. I love this CD!!! I love Jay z. if Eminem is sesame street…
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A few things I’ve observed. when you are in love, it is all you think about. another thing. when you fall in love with someone you experience something called jealousy. I had forgotten about jealousy. But it is real. As unenlightened and untranscendent as it may be, its like a ghost that creeps up on…
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My heart has broken open. not broken. Just broken open. love… wow… it had been a long time. I feel completely raw. I had forgotten what it was like. No wonder it is all the talk of the world. Break… There is the theory of the hypnogogic state of consciousness… this is the state just…
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I’m traveling right now for a few days. I miss New York and new Yorkers. I find it hard to not be in big metropolitan cities. Or in just totally remote places like rural Vermont or Colorado etc… either or… but when I am in regular suburban America, I find it very difficult on my…
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—–Original Message—–From: julia Sent: Mon 2/15/2005 11:29 PMTo: fishyCc:Subject: Re: what it is Dearest Fishy,hahahahahaha! well goodness. here is this beautiful scroll awaiting after my so burbling baboon conversation with assyra. man! i had had a THICK day at school as had she, and we spoke briefly tonight about the Matter of Fishy. funny but…
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Mom calls. upset. Finally opens her heart up to men for the first time in years… and has started dating. She is happier than she has been in many years. shines. Glows. Smiles even more than normal, which says a lot for her. she is a very happy and bubbly person already. How is it…
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The Beast is in the hospital again. ten heart operations in the last few years. everyone around him trying to get him to take Avatar. Or anything for that matter. Just do something to go inside and integrate who he is and what he’s done and what has happened to him in his past so…