Category Archives: Straight Documenting
141 – Greetings from Planet Earth
Hello. I write to you like a letter from a close friend far away in time and location, because that’s what I’ve been. I write to you like a letter handwritten from top to bottom with penmanship that weakens one … Continue reading
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137 – First, superficial reflections before the convention
I’m at the Asian American Journalists Association’s national convention. Wrote these earlier, one on a plane, one the first night. 201008041010 (or something) I am getting to be a bitter adult. I write this now on a plane, where the … Continue reading
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136 – I love my job. I just hope it loves me back.
Sometimes I write about “deep” things. Sometimes I write about “spiritual” things. Sometimes I write about “poetic” things. But I don’t write enough about my day-to-day life and what that looks like on a very clear level. I flip through … Continue reading
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132 – Switch
Today I ran into about five friends/my editor by happenstance (on four separate occasions), and then about as many folks from Campus Ministry, mostly away from campus. Last night I had written some things about dissatisfaction and social frustration and … Continue reading
Filed under Happy, Messy, Passion, Rambling, Straight Documenting, Stream of Consciousness
120 – you walked the deserts in leather boots, you wrote long letters to a woman in different states
Today I participated in an experiment with myself. Sprung from an idea told to me by a nun told to her by a priest and inspired by oranges, I decided to eat lunch today. And just eat lunch. Normally when … Continue reading
Filed under Adventures, Beautiful Things, Oranges, Pensive, Straight Documenting
115 – because you can’t just do it whenever you want to; you have to wait
I love walking to class. I love constantly smiling at people and being waved at and called out to. It is what I needed out of this new year and what makes me feel humming again. Things are a little … Continue reading
093 – I’ll Believe In Anything
Today has been probably the most comfortable (cozy) day in Colorado so far this summer, if not one of the most comfortable Colorado days I can even remember. Today has been probably one of my most helplessly, blithely liberating days … Continue reading
092 – free-write reflections
Today I wake up intent on writing 250 words about the womb, or a basement, a cave. In some ways they are all very much the same. And I turn on a record (M. Ward: Hold Time, which I fell … Continue reading
089 – quick observations
Things I forgot about Colorado summers: moths tornadoes Things I forgot about my first summer back from a year living my life in college: my father is transitioning into retirement and therefore not really working and therefore home a lot … Continue reading
Filed under Lists, Straight Documenting
087 – And don’t forget to floss daily (Permission)
Today I was indecisive about selecting a new toothbrush, because I am indecisive about everything, because transitioning back into a new yet extremely familiar organic environment is a little bit like PMS, or the entire peak of puberty, for that … Continue reading
