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I have taken trips throughout my life, many of which I wished I had stayed and never come back (damn those two-way tickets with expiration dates). Some of those trips were just few-week stops along the way of some restless summers. You may frame me as a sort of backpackers. Except the term has been…
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Keep moving. Let the future grab and pull you forward and upward (spiral). Don’t allow a certain (negative or positive) event or people to define you. Hang on to your guitar, your camera, your pen, tools which help you in good and bad times. Money is still the root of all evil as it has…
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Anger, protest and revolt. Things are still as they have always been. Peace signs, peace songs….and peace icons. Then, revolt turns to retreat. Yoko Ono now crowd-sources “My Mom is Beautiful” on Facebook Page. Back to the basics. Back to the wombs that carried us: safe and secure. Your Mom is beautiful. Iranian and American…
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We’ve all got moments worth-retelling. But all will be gone to waste if it’s not from and by us since we’re both the narrators and the primary source vs through someone else’s recollection of us, or worst of , they stole our thunder by re-telling about us as if we were absent in the room.…
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A conflict involves many facets, many of which unpleasant and detestable. Take war, for example. In Saving Private Ryan, we found that our Capt. had taught English composition in his civilian life. But in war, he had to carry out orders and complete his mission, in this case, to put it ironically, “humanitarian”. They packed…
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It’s somber, it’s sacred and sometimes hidden away in secret. Like an Ishiguro’s novel, “the Buried Giant”. Like a shrine discovered in Tinker Creek. We tend to forget and we will. No cure for that, yet. But incense, chant, and statues will evoke deep-seated memories. Of times Mom tried to nudge me to bow, to…
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US Today often publishes 10 Best Places to Live, to Retire, to See etc… but I have yet seen its 10 Best Places to Die. But I have seen with my own eyes, however, how my grandma got buried (in Vietnam) and how my Dad got buried (in Virginia). From experience, I’d rather die in…
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Valley girls used to show-off their belly buttons, wear high-heel shoes and go shopping at the Galleria together. They still do. But less. Much less. Recent studies show a sharp decline in Mall patronage while conversely, there aren’t enough ware-house real estate for the like of Amazons. What’s going on? Can’t wait to watch Diane…
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The 70’s brought us songs that reflect that decade’s youthful longing and loss. We inherited ” I’ll never fall in love again”, “Feelings”, “I will give everything I own”. From the Youngbloods ( Get together) to America (Daisy Jane), we got a feeling that there are more behind those long hair and bushy beard: “we…
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We are here to tell our stories. What’s your ending? Are you a late-bloomer, hence, saving the best for last? Or you believe that the best has already been behind i.e. apocalypse now. Not all is “horror, horror” as in the ending of Apocalypse Redux (the original version ends with ” we have met the…
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