Tag: musings
group name: hitchingpost
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June 13, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
There is a weeping willow tree
outside my bedroom window.
I look at it in the early morning ---
there are dew drops dangling from its graceful tendrils.
They dazzle in the new day's light . . .
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June 18, 2008 05:14 PM EDT --
I couldn't sleep last night so I let my mind wonder. When I finally harnessed my thoughts, this is what I had come up with. I'm not sure where the idea came from, but while I . . .
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June 12, 2008 11:55 PM EDT --
Floating on air
Nothing under my feet
Suspended 'tween high and low
Hanging.
No ground on which to stand
No walls on which to lean
The air has lost all warmth
Its chill wraps me
Cold. . . .
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June 29, 2008 08:09 PM EDT --
I was thinking of an old Red Skelton routine--the one of an old man at a parade caught up in emotion when the American Flad was carried by--and came up with this. So, with Independence Day coming . . .
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March 09, 2008 08:19 PM EDT --
So we've offered to provide the wedding photography for a couple of friends of ours that we're visiting soon. The only thing is, I've never actually done anything quite so formal before, and . . .
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March 11, 2008 07:50 PM EDT --
Argh. Argh argh argh. I should have known it would be a bad day when I couldn't stay asleep last night. Today, I feel pain all over, and the world has been doing its best to ensure that things just . . .
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May 09, 2008 04:03 AM EDT --
I was going to do other things with my evening. I was going to work on an article about National Train Day, which is on May 10th, and on why you should join the Green Team, and nonsense like that. In fact, . . .
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April 18, 2009 09:26 PM EDT --
... well, no, not yet. But we have everything finalized, and the construction is in progress. In three weeks, we should be receiving our shed, so we will have space to store and package things (without . . .
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May 22, 2008 06:59 PM EDT --
I'm Austin Cushing, and this is my Assorted Ramblings.
I run several groups on Gather. Actually, I run 21 groups on Gather at the moment. I'd like to run a few more, but I think I've hit . . .
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March 03, 2007 02:36 AM EST --
You know, I've been too nice to Geico for far too long. It has some of the worst commercials ever; repetitive, irritating, and, in one particular commercial 'storyline', dedicated to saying . . .
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February 29, 2008 04:51 PM EST --
Years after my parents took me home, adoption papers signed, sealed, and delivered to Muddy, Illinois (the setting for my short story Fly Balls Ain't Washtubs ), I used to go to my . . .
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March 07, 2008 11:51 PM EST --
It's considered a matter of family common sense that if something electronic goes awry, I'm the person who probably has some idea of how to fix it. Usually, this is true, or at least if I don't . . .
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December 16, 2008 10:38 PM EST --
Normally, while trudging through the deep sand along Lake Worth’s beach, we encounter lots of man-made debris cast up on shore by Atlantic’s waves along with slimy seaweed, tortured driftwood, . . .
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July 01, 2008 12:07 AM EDT --
From April 29 through May 4, I was in New York for the PEN World Writers Fesitval "Public Lives/Private Lives."
First, I should probably tell you what PEN is and how I found myself at this . . .
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December 28, 2007 04:27 PM EST --
Am I ready for 2008?
The question I pose is 2008 ready for me?
I learned that time marches on no matter whether we are ready to keep step. Change like taxes and death are inevitable and I intend . . .
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May 09, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
HEMINGWAY or FITZGERALD?
. . .
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February 21, 2007 09:04 PM EST --
Microscopic chainmail. Let's hear it for another advance in realistic cyberpunk tech!
You know what's sad, though? When I first read this, the first thought that came to mind was a vision . . .
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March 15, 2007 10:34 PM EDT --
Today, I'm feeling surprisingly good, all things considered. We woke up an hour early so that L could get in on a conference call, which meant I had time to fully awaken (I'm a slow riser), get . . .
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May 12, 2007 02:07 AM EDT --
(Another of my poetic writings - this one from the perspective of a brave student of history.)
History never repeats.
The men and women make similar mistakes;
The victors write of their glories . . .
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February 01, 2007 03:15 AM EST --
Well, we've seen the three happy, shiny, wonderful next-gen consoles which will become the only consoles receiving content within about a year or two. You know what? I'm not really all that . . .
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