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Revealing your roles

December 8th 2008

From Psychology Today:

Sometimes life is all too real and there’s no hiding it. By and large, though, we all have some choice in how much of ourselves we show in our roles.
Here are some guidelines:

Take your self-disclosure cues from your corporate culture. Some environments button down personality as much as others restrict wardrobe.
Level [...]

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Fall

December 8th 2008

There is a certain shift in light when Fall slides into play.  I’ve really noticed this since I was kid.  It gave me a certain restlessness in my stomach – in some ways I feared it. I no longer feel that fear.  I understand it. As the Stones pile up, I’ve come to regard that feeling [...]

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Sit and be a shadow

December 8th 2008

*Repost from Moab, UT*
Friday night I walked down the stairs to have a smoke. I could smell the pool, hear the pool equipment behind the door legibly labeled “Pool Equipment” (Important note…it was not a meat grinder like I first thought). The last flight down I reached into my pocket to pull out the aforementioned [...]

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The distant sound of Taps

December 8th 2008

Cool, full moon fueled autumn air at night. Smoke in the air, not just from my own cigarette, but from the scorched earth in California.
It created an aura of fuzz around the celestial bodies slowly pinwheeling above me.
Above the far away hiss of freeway noise I heard it drifting like a spirit – sad, forlorn.
The [...]

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Driving the Bloodway

December 8th 2008

Watercolor smears bright on dark night canvas to show black the door. Stars fade, smog bands blend and rise with noise of a hundred thousand hungry industrial animals hitting tires down on the freeway.
I belt in, bend the key, torture my ride to life, blink the lights open and grind it into motion.
Go.
Little time passes.
Four [...]

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