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89. Trying to Find the Right Words at Twenty-Five
“It’s okay to remember” “oh, you just stole that from me.” “What? when’d you say that? “Well, why’d you say that? “I don’t know. It just felt like you needed to hear it.” x My Sethi told me just yesterday of a suspected intruder in her old, crumbling home. She’s often disregarded as delusional by the other members of our…
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88. Trying to Put the Cart before the Horse at Twenty-Five
“I just spent $70 on breakfast.” “It was room service and it was just for me.” “I can’t believe there’s no coffee machine in the room.” “I feel energized, somehow, no matter how early the jetlag has me awake.” I walked through the casinos barefooted, otherwise dressed to the nines. I signed up for the Tao Hospitality Group app while…
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87. Trying to Braai My Own Dreams to a Crisp at Twenty-Five
I met a young barista from Khayelitsha whose goal is to one day own his own café. He claims to be passionate about coffee; he claims to treat each customer’s order as the first of his day. He knows it’s challenging. My cynic inside tells me, with bitterness, he will grow out of this practice, that the shift work will…
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86. Trying to Sleep at Twenty-Five
Last night, I evaporated from sleep at what I thought to be half six. I’m a good sleeper, generally, and an even better meaning-maker so, naturally, I had been tapped by one of the Green Point Ghosts I picked up on my Sunday kayaking outing. I pondered the friendly spirit. We had a conversation and She sprung to memory, for…
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85. Trying to Tell Shit Stories with Integrity at Twenty-Five
Arguably, the best ever compliment is, “it looks like you’ve never not had it.” because either it means I look like myself or I have fooled someone into believing that I am who I say I am or appear to be and the piercer in Byron Bay said it about my septum ring (his work, so, yeah) as soon as…
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84. Trying to Uber with You at Twenty-Five
Do you remember that night in Tallahassee we summoned an uber to just outside the expensive fancy restaurant where my family paid for our dinners? I think it was maybe my birthday. Maybe it was just Friday. I don’t know who called the uber, actually, but if it was me, I’m glad to have gotten us to wherever we were…
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83. Trying to Have a Good Time at Twenty-Five
What if now is a good time to switch back to Apple Music? Pay says that Spotify is getting a little too Artificial Intelligence-y and it takes a woman like her to say a thing like that to get me to think a little bit deeper about all the hand-crafted playlists I traded for algorithm-generated tracks when I made the…
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82. Trying to Keep My Wits about Me at Twenty-Five
In the earliest hours of the morning, this morning, I tossed and turned on Carrie’s gray couch. Up and left, I spotted the southern cross, that great big hemispheric reminder of mine. I turned on my back to the window, tasted the dryness of my mouth, and managed to fall back into a light sleep. Lazily, I swung my feet…
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81. Trying to Let it Land at Twenty-Five
today is a day whose minutes are passing lightly, bouncily. I record a voice memo and it somehow measures 3 minutes and 14 seconds and I could have gone on forever more and maybe it’s because the person on the other side makes me feel like she listens or maybe it’s the caffeine, the sunshine, the tobacco, the waves, the…
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80. The Triangle of Purpose (I Stole This)
My first (and I hope, only) visit to Pittsburgh, PA, USA; my park-path crossed that of two white men, one with a clipboard, the other with an at-home-creator tripod in-hand. They were decidedly harmless enough. My best friend and I consented to their interview and understood their creative mission: anchor the education of America’s youth in each child’s unique purpose.…
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