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Beer

Posted on February 17, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

And I tell you, when you get there – it doesn’t flash like a light, no backlit Hollywood hero on horseback. It mellows in quickly and you feel it, you know? It’s, uh, it’s…well anyway. There’s nothing more important than … Continue reading →

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A Gold Dipped Metaphor

Posted on February 16, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Were it not for a volcano exploding in Asia and shifting the earth for moment, I’d not have caught my balance on a cliffs edge in North America. So certain was I that plate tectonics was my guardian angel; and … Continue reading →

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Ode to the Conquerer of Great Distance and Time

Posted on February 16, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Prelude:  As We Arrive Your love found me, as if two suns rose from the east and west at the same time.  Where their rays met would be indistinguishable, and why even understand it. What we feel in touch is … Continue reading →

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All the Love in the World

Posted on February 15, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

All the love in the world we need    can be fit on the tip of a pinmore than the bounty of earth, sky, and sea     it would sooner get under our skin. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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VALENTINES DAY DIALECTIC 2012

Posted on February 12, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Haecceity it is what is of what —  it is that of what isWe always break it down to surrendering to our destiny, be that our compulsions to roll with its uncertain and vicarious plan for ALL of us – … Continue reading →

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A Night in the Window

Posted on February 5, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

“Say that again,”  he said. Interrupting her sip of beer, she replied,   “mm – say what?”              “- Say whatever it was you said, because it made a perfect arc between our lips.”  She just smiled, looking over the top … Continue reading →

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I cannot be removed from being

Posted on February 3, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

…I cannot be removed from Being… having endured the heat and pressure and time  to become so crystalline and cardinal.  Everything in conflux lights a distance –                            … Continue reading →

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Monkey Love

Posted on January 25, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Hm, the paradox of the monkey with his hand in a jelly bean jar, a fist clenched with so many jelly beans, but he cannot manage to get his hand out…unless he takes just one.  It’s not the pieces with … Continue reading →

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the world is getting smaller in a big way

Posted on January 25, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

This has been on my mind lately – because they die. The passing of family and friends and loved ones…it’s been on my mind. I read a post on Facebook by a dear friend. Not a monumental post – not … Continue reading →

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Cheap White Wine and Oreos

Posted on January 25, 2012 by skipavm@gmail.com

Cheap white wine and Oreos A life like this, it comes and goes. And in the end it’s not what’s up, But went well, and what just sucked. Oh, no point trying play it back, Your remote’s always been out … Continue reading →

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