Day 44 – relationship insights from Bull Durham

So, I’ve been watching a lot of movies in my downtime. Too dreary outside, and brain still too fried to read much. It helps if you watch movies that aren’t too mentally challenging, hence Bull Durham. Though I put the French subtitles on to see if I couldn’t osmose a second language – I think I’ll get very good at swearing if nothing else (in case I ever run out of English words).

Right, so Bull Durham isn’t just a movie about sex and baseball, and a bit of Walt Whitman thrown in, it is very profound insight into the emotional lives of men Continue reading »

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Sohbet – We Are All Seekers

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We are all seekers
This motley band
Our trail is full of rocks and roots
Unexpected turns
And long stretches through darkness

I cannot say these journeys lead
To happy endings
But something draws us
From the crowded passage
Of well paved pathways

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Sohbet – break-up songs

Part of a Valentine’s double header (I’ll post an article tomorrow), as comfort and entertainment for all you single folk on this most baneful of days, starting a poetic thread of favourite break-up songs. Continue reading »

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Escape Velocity

G-forceI had this t-shirt in high school, on it was a graphic of a guy’s face stretched and distorted in G-force. I can’t get that visual out of my head as I try and get this website (and a whole writing career) up and running. I keep bashing up against my own ignorance, and the pull of inertia, the status quo of my current life, seems just about insurmountable. I feel torn apart in my efforts to reach escape velocity. Continue reading »

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