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Monthly Archives: September 2003

Good Deed

I’ve mentioned him before, and apparently he’s a nice guy once you get to know him. Today I saw a woman lose a scrap of paper from her armload of files and oversized mailing tubes. She started to shift her things around, so that she’d be able to reach down and grab the paper without letting lose a landslide of pages.

The Distant Pink Robots

I was selecting a CD to put on and I heard the beginning of that last Flaming Lips album start up somewhere outside. So I cracked the window a bit and started browsing through a magazine, waiting to see if the music would be stopped or the volume lowered. The album kept going [...]

Just a Nudge

One afternoon, about a year and a half ago, I was buying lunch for Robert. He was depressed, and I wasn’t feeling up to attempting to steer him toward a more upbeat mood. We were standing in line to order. The song that was playing on the cafe’s speakers ended, and Ring [...]

Faith

Photo Friday: Faith

Rain

Don’t miss the caterpillar.
See also 4/25/03, 5/26/03, & 8/1/03

Seasonal (Repeating Myself)

Fall arrived all at once on Saturday night. By all at once I don’t mean that there was a gust of wind and the leaves fell from their trees, but the shift between the seasons happened over just a couple of hours.

Sign

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Caption: “What does her sign say?”
“She has a sign?”

Still There

The attendants’ uniform involves a red polo shirt now; and that tie remains untouched, tucked away on a hook behind the door of the attendant’s booth, fading and decaying.