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Tag Archives: memory
The First Day
If this is the first day of what life remains, who cares if there’s sunshine or thunder and rain? Both have their own virtues, each pleasure and pain; though different, a good deal the same. If this is the first … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, grief, James Taylor, living, loss, memory, morning, optimism
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God is a Lonely Whore
I am so in love although I have never seen; my eyes are full of things my heart denies me: colored visions wrought in the language of amour, the word made flesh in the weak metaphor of wretched, babbling men … Continue reading
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Tagged abandonment, commitment, cruelty, desolation, God, love, Lucifer, memory, parables
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Sometimes We Forget
The world is often close around, its taste upon our breath filling our dreams with noble schemes of unknown width and depth. It gives us of its bounty and leaves us deep in a debt that we must somehow then … Continue reading
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Tagged amnesia, daily poems, forgetfulness, justification, memory, responsibility
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A New Study on Music and Memory …
or why that stupid song gets stuck in your head…a very interesting bit of new research from Dartmouth College: Music, Memory and the Brain In other news, we have a wonderful little (5-1/2′) Scotch Pine tree now nestled in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dartmouth College, haiku, Japanese verse forms, Leaves of Grass, memory, music, Walt Whitman
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