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Adrift July 30, 2006

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in my own world
misplaced in my own reality
No longer sure where I was heading
The place that I came from gone

Where do I go when directions are lost?
Where is my compass, my guiding light?

Here alone, wherever here is
no way of knowing if I’m moving at all

Paddling in circles,
serene surface ripples
the only sign
I am still alive

Eyes closed
Ears not listening
not wanting to hear
the silence that exists between two nowheres

Simple Maths July 28, 2006

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500 words per day

= 3,500 words per week

= 14,000 words per month

Therefore:

6 months to write an 85,000 word novel

Easy… I can do that… can’t I? :-)

Summer Evening July 24, 2006

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Trees burning golden

Honeysuckle overpowers

my wilting senses

Balmy July 22, 2006

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Under parasol

gentle patter of raindrops

audible, not seen

Gone July 21, 2006

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“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.”

Joan Baez

I wonder what I would do if I could choose how to spend my last few hours? What would any of us choose?

Grab a cab and head to the wilds of the Jersey coast, feel the sea breeze in your hair… a sandwich and bottle of wine at a beach bar alone… drink, chill, watch the surfers, feel the spray on your skin as the tide races in… no worries, no fears, no plan, no pain… collected hours later as arranged before the sun sets…

Just a short while after she spent three hours doing what she loved best, her home help found she had peacefully died in her wheelchair, the sea salt still in her hair…

Achingly sad… July 17, 2006

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This has to be one of the most tear-inducing sites I’ve ever seen…

http://turbulence.org/Works/saddest/

Plodding On July 15, 2006

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countryside

gradually more hilly

obstinately uncraggy

A gentle descent

into Warm Springs

It sounded like such a nice place

to pass away

Catching Up July 10, 2006

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Life gets faster

Running so quickly

I can’t see where it went