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From the get-go, my hair was programmed to fall out. One is grateful this so rarely happens with the pancreas or the eyeballs.

Inevitably, our children come to see us as we are. Not as we wish we were, or even as we should be.

Summer here comes on like a zaftig hippie chick, jazzed on chlorophyll and flinging fistfuls of butterflies to the sun.

Grievance is a sullen little boat, blown in the creepy breeze of ridiculous sighs.

As usual, I overdreamed and underbudgeted. . .

Even as a guy with pickup truck sensibilities, I have always gone a little in the liver for patchouli.

Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.
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Memory is a means of possession, but eventually, the greatest grace is found in letting go.

We sort the past in an attempt to sort the present and anticipate the future.

But I hope we don't burden Amy with the idea that living outside the city limits is an inherently pious act. That rural equals righteous.
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The tough times start," he said, "the day the last casserole dish is returned.

We talk about how he and Leanne are doing knowing full well there is no sufficient answer.
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I got religion in the third grade, and jeepers, did I need it. The devil was in me, and Hardy Biesterveld wasn't helping.

Seed catalogs are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than Enron and Playboy combined.

That woman has halitosis of the soul

Here up north we worship the sun in big gulps.
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I am paddling laps in a demitasse of home-brewed ennui

It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.