Category: reading and writing
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Living in the Past (+Poem)
I’ve always been inclined to living in the past. For evidence, you need look no further my many-years-long effort to transcribe all of my old journals. Here’s a sample: Now tell me, do you know anybody else who’s transcribing their journals? I’ve kept a ridiculous number of the darn things, too—maybe 20 official journals and…
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Hubris
When I saw that the various things I was working on and talking about with people brought a Tennyson poem, Doctrine and Covenants 45, a book about pre-Columbian civilizations, and my own poetic musings together in one place, I was filled with intellectual vanity. At his request, I started telling my professor my thoughts about…
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What Will Become?
So there’s this girl who thinks she’s no good because she’s like me and you you know she makes mistakes does not nice things does good things for wrong reasons in other words she’s amazing, just not perfect I wish she could see wish she could feel wish that she would stop hurting herself but…