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Dull days

by Emupdated on June 18, 2018June 18, 20185 Comments on Dull days

“I like to prowl ordinary places. I feel sorry for us all or glad for us all caught alive together and awkward in that way. there’s nothing better than the joke of us the seriousness …

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Graduation

by Emupdated on June 15, 2018June 15, 201825 Comments on Graduation

“Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.” ― Nikki Rowe — An apology to me, time to be candor:   It’s convocation season Last year, this …

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The strip club

by Emupdated on June 13, 2018June 13, 201818 Comments on The strip club

“But in the importance and noise of to-morrow When the brokers are roaring like beasts on the floor of the     Bourse, And the poor have the sufferings to which they are fairly     accustomed, And each …

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Beaten and cheated, Part II

by Emupdated on June 25, 2018June 11, 201810 Comments on Beaten and cheated, Part II

“Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.” ― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi — Back in march, I began writing about a true story that has been in the making for 30 years. And She …

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Cramps

by Emon June 7, 2018June 7, 201822 Comments on Cramps

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary — You rise with …

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Please, Don’t take your life

by Emon June 5, 2018June 5, 201822 Comments on Please, Don’t take your life

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” ― Seneca — Please Don’t take your life   Despite the moments Filled with despair There is power Brooding In your gut In your hands In …

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Photo Challenges

Photo Challenge and a Haiku

by Emupdated on June 5, 2018June 4, 201824 Comments on Photo Challenge and a Haiku

For this week’s Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge, I present to you a Haiku (my first one, be gentle with me), and some snaps: — Roads to the unknown Guide my bottomless fancy Envy fills the …

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Bike to work week

by Emon May 31, 2018May 31, 20189 Comments on Bike to work week

“The best way out is always through.” ― Robert Frost — I bought a bike a couple of weeks ago   The sad sidewalk holding my impatient body The line of heavy-eyed crowd The flow …

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Sasha Pieterse’s wedding

by Emupdated on December 9, 2019May 29, 201813 Comments on Sasha Pieterse’s wedding

“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.” ― Fulton J. Sheen, …

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An ode to a kitten

by Emupdated on May 28, 2018May 28, 201828 Comments on An ode to a kitten

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.” ― Albert Schweitzer — I brought you, shivering under a thick coat of fur Into our four walls, disguised from …

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