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Yup
he said she said they said the neighbor said cousins uncles aunts sons daughters all said me the lips are sealed Continue reading
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Writing
In an earlier post titled: You Know, it was a post that was written to get something off my chest. It’s been the hot humid air that I am not too fond of. I never did like that kind of weather. Anyway, when I came home from an early afternoon walk, which by the way Continue reading
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You know ….
… it’s time that they ban outlaw hot steamy humid foul smelling fucking smoky air fouling up our lungs and making life fucking miserable even the local bag lady agree says her worn out bra gets so sweaty she has to literally peal it off her breasts and her partner who was heading down to Continue reading
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City Life
tourists from the hick towns in awe of the big city skyscrapers Continue reading
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Rural Life
skimming rocks across the pond’s smooth surface Continue reading
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Factoid
Watching a couple of black & white Perry Masons from 1962. I was 13 years old which was 61 years ago. That also was the year I started high school. It seems like it was yesterday… Continue reading
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Monday Morning
got out of bed a few minutes before 6:00 am grabbed my phone to see what the current temperature was … lo and behold it was 73F with a dew point reading of 72 … looked out the window and it was hazy all fuck … now this will make for a miserable day as Continue reading
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Two Sentences
she is heading out to the other side of the country. hopefully a change of scenery will make all the difference in her life. Continue reading
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City Life
people flocking to the beach to get relief from the stifling heat Continue reading
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A Pondering Thought
coffee what would I do without it I would most likely be a basket case and bouncing off the fucking walls thats why I keep a steady supply of different brands I do like to change it up so I don’t get tired of drinking the same old same old Continue reading
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Saturday Evening
took a walk after I finished my supper and it is muggy as all hell and needless to say I was drenched … what helped me keep my mind off the humid air I listened to podcast about an independent bookstore… it was very interesting as I am a book lover and I do make Continue reading
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City Life
rush hour frustrated drivers horns tooting incessantly Continue reading
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Friday Afternoon
it is shortly after noon the sky got really dark and off in the distance the rumble of thunder now the rain has arrived and will be doing its thing for the next couple of hours or so…the afternoon walk is put on hold so I can sit back and read a book…books to me Continue reading
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Fact
cream of the crop until it turns sour then the odor is unpleasant to the nose Continue reading
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City Life
hot and humid the kids lining up for free ice cream Continue reading
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Wednesday Morning Pondering
Today is supposed to be the hottest day of the week …with it comes the high humidity and the haze that accompanies it when it does get hazy it makes the sky the air and everything around it and in the distance too look like total shit …it like altars the color of things like Continue reading
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City Life
hustlers and scammers working the busy streets seeking by surprising their innocent victims Continue reading
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City Life
homeless people sleeping on sidewalks Continue reading
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A Thought
life is a crap shoot you win some and you lose some Continue reading
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Tuesday Afternoon
Tuesday afternoon also a song back in the 1970’s sung by the Moody Blues can still hear the song in my head like I was being transported back in time …with that said often wondered would want to back to those days and before that which would be the 50s & 60s … sure there Continue reading
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Rural Life
cows being milked chickens being fed part of owning a farm Continue reading
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City Life
music in the park brings people of all ages together Continue reading
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City Life
two strangers playing a serious game of chess on the city plaza Continue reading
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City Life
street corner philosopher conversing about life in general Continue reading
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Sundays
a day of doing three online crosswords along with some book reading …get some walks in …watch a game or two of baseball which was always my favorite sport and then football …then there is blog to tend to if I find a some spare time along with replying to some of the comments that Continue reading
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Saturday Afternoon
took a walk muggy as all hell came home with the t-shirt practically glued onto my skin …it also drained me and was glad to be back home and the first thing I did was turn on the a/c …slowly recovering …now I’ll sit back relax and probably try to finish one of the books Continue reading
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City Life
sitting in the shade reading a book Continue reading
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City Life
passing the time away feeding the pigeons Continue reading
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Six Words
kids splashing having fun city life Continue reading
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Six Words
coffee stand morning rush city Life Continue reading
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Six Words
neighbors chatting swapping stories city life Continue reading
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It’s
outside it is hot humid sticky indoor it is cool so sitting on the couch reading a book then emails on the laptop fell asleep while doing that the battery slowly shitting the bed when woke up from the power nap the computer was telling me to plug in charge it up then it will Continue reading
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Six Words
broiling sun stifling air city life Continue reading
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Six Words
pizza parlor outdoor eating city life Continue reading
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Tuesday Evening
Fourth of July is nearly over with and with that said it seems that summer flies by and the next thing is that you wake up and its Labor Day and football season is upon us the kids are back in school plus the days keep getting shorter till the middle of December … well Continue reading
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Six Words
opened hydrants cooling off city life Continue reading
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Six Words
strap hangers crammed subways city life Continue reading
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Six Words
people watching passers-by city life Continue reading
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Friday’s Quote
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” ~ Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Thursday’s Observations
The afternoon is half over with and it is humid and when I arrived home from my walk I thought I would have to pry off the t-shirt as it felt like it was glued on to my body Come tomorrow another week is coming to a close along with the closing of the month Continue reading
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Wednesday Observations
Two-thirds of the afternoon is history with a third to go when it becomes evening yet it is still daylight for a couple of more hours so it should still be afternoon till the time the sun sets then call it for what it rightfully is evening I mean it’s the logical thing to do Continue reading
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Wednesday Morning
Last Wednesday of the month and have no errands or any other running around to do. It does look it wants to do something weather wise as it is getting dark. If it rains I can live with that. What I don’t deal with is the sticky stuffy humid air. I am at my worst. Continue reading
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Observation
Sitting in the rocking chair Biding time As I am getting older With every passing tick of the clock Continue reading
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And so ….
… it is day two of pure shitty weather; rain, wind, cool and all out the raw feeling. Anyways, I did manage to get a couple of walks in. As for being indoors. I kept myself busy, doing three online Sunday crosswords, got some book reading in, and watching some of the baseball games on Continue reading
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Ho Hum of a Day
What a big change in the weather. The past two days was fairly hot, Thursday was in the high 80s, and Friday was a couple of degrees cooler. Today, its a whole different ballgame with rain, chilly with that raw feeling, and in the afternoon it was 49 degrees. Sunday won’t be any better, with Continue reading
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Okay So
June 1st signifies a new month, a new day and the month that has the longest hours of daylight. Also, it is the beginning of the sixth month which at the end will bring us to the halfway point of the year. Sure it is getting close to the real summer to begin, which means Continue reading
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Past or Present
Were things better back in the day versus the present time. I’ve often would run this through my mind, would come up with the most common things that when I was a kid, it seemed that we were relying on the radio, television and newspapers for all the information. To me it seemed to be Continue reading
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Wednesday Evening Quote
“Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. Continue reading
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All Unravelled
a perfect day turns to shit in a matter of the batting of the eyes when you he locked himself out of his apartment which located on 14th floor so going through the window is out of the question and there is no fire escape to use and the building manager has gone home for Continue reading
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It Happens ~ Short Story
So Bob is off to the store for milk, and lo and behold they’re all sold out and the store clerk said he doesn’t know when they will get a delivery, as the cows local union 69 are on strike for fair wages as the cows shop steward have had it with the farmers and Continue reading
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Sunday Night
Another Sunday is soon coming to an end, and a new day will come about. Took my walks today, even though it was hot, it humid at all. On the early evening stroll, I decided to go walking on the boardwalk as it runs parallel with the river. About halfway down the way I ran Continue reading
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A Warm Saturday Evening
Came back from my usual after meal walk, and it is really warm out. When I left which was around 5:30, it was 77 F, and when I finished it was 74. Sunday it is supposed to 90 or close to it. To me that is much to early for this time of year. Temperatures Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Quote
“I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn’t that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn’t mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in Continue reading
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Friday Afternoon
Late Friday afternoon the starting point for the working people which I am no longer a part of, the three day weekend. I remembered when I would look forward to the long weekend and how fast they flew by. Now that I am retired the longer weekends don’t really matter much. On the home front Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ~ Ralph Waldo Continue reading
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It Can Be Embarrassing
Walking with one’s head in the clouds, can end being an embarrassing event. I have done it myself but snapped out of it pretty quickly before anything happened. A few years back when I was part of the work-a-day-world, I was returning back to where I work, I was on JFK Street in Central Sq., Continue reading
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Wednesday Evening
Never got around to posting yesterday, so I will try and give it a go. Anyways … after I finished posting Monday evening, there was a medical emergency I had to attend to. My partner became ill, and asked her what was wrong, and she thought she was having a silent heart attack. Like a Continue reading
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Surreal
As I mentioned in my previous post about a book I am close to finishing up, Inside Story by Martin Amis. It was his last novel which was published in 2020. Anyway, he talks about his best friend Christopher Hichens dying of Oesophageal Cancer, stage four. What was mind numbing was that was the same Continue reading
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Saturday
Saturday evening and and nothing really exciting happened today. Its been raining all afternoon and it is still going on. I did manage to get a couple of walks in, got some book done. Sadly the book that I am currently finishing up is by Martin Amis. He passed away on Friday in Florida at Continue reading
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Never A Dull Moment
As you all know, if not some of you know that I do a lot of walking. Most days, it will be three sometimes 4 times a day, and average about anywhere from three to sometimes 6 miles in a day. I will admit that there those days that I have to push myself to Continue reading
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All Is Good
Saw the doctor today No aches No pain All is good Also had my eyes checked at the optometrist No sugar in the eyes No glaucoma and no cataracts Don’t need new glasses Two days in a row of getting good news Life is good Continue reading
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I’ll Take It
its Saturday afternoon and its sunny, warm and lots of clouds and I am tired from keeping myself busy as in busy as a bee did i just say that oh my what was I thinking well i could be tired from getting up to early or from not enough coffee nah then there’s the Continue reading
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Today’s Quote
“Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle – for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out Continue reading
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Nabokov and Joyce
“What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive tendency to overtip. An uxoriousness that their wives deservedly inspired. More than that, they both lived their lives ‘beautifully’–not in any Jamesian sense (where, besides, ferocious solvency would have been Continue reading
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Going With The Flow
Its the last day of April, and still dealing with this damn head cold. Its not as bad as it has been. Anyways, I’ve been more or less taking it easy, getting the things that have to be done out of the way. As for books, I can’t seem to get my head around into Continue reading
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Iain Banks Quote
“People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots… in fact I think they have to be… a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for and by idiots; it is no great handicap in life and in certain areas is actually a Continue reading
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A Thought on Judgment
As a society in totality, we tend to be judgmental on just about any and all subjects we can touch upon. Why I’m bringing this up, I ran into a dear friend of mine, and we sat down and had a chat in Washington Sq., park. She is someone I had met about a dozen Continue reading
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My Life
I titled this post My Life, as I am trying my hand at penning an essay. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time. I know it’s not an easy thing to do, well, anyways here it goes. I have been keeping myself busy, meaning running errands, doing chores, as in doing Continue reading
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A Thought
With a mass shooting in a supermarket, which earlier last year. In late November a lake effect snowstorm which buried the greater Buffalo area. Then the blizzard in late December which paralyzed the city and its environs, and the people who lost their lives. And last, Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills going into cardiac Continue reading
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m
mind less madness mingling mind meaningless masturbatory machinations of a mangled mind Continue reading
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So
so today is a new day, a new month and a new year, which means in five weeks from now, I’ll be another year older and hopefully wiser with age. since it is a new year, what way to start it off with is plenty of black coffee … got to have coffee and start Continue reading
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People Write
“People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I’m not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don’t want Continue reading
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Question
is it just me the year has flew right by or am I just imagining it it seems like we are living on a time warp speed with no limits Continue reading
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Documents Of The Mist
“Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can’t communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books – Too late, too late, the history of everything Continue reading
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If you worship money and things …
“If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a Continue reading
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To Live An Interesting Life.
“To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule, if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live Continue reading
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Journey
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination. ~ Brandon Sanderson Continue reading
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Growing
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, Continue reading
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Practice Kindness
“The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with Continue reading
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Reading a Poem
kick back and relax grab a book any book whatever tickles your fancy a good way to pass the time away oh, the joy of reading Continue reading
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Walking
it may be cold it may be snowing it may be dark it may be raining but it won’t stop me from going on my walks Continue reading
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Two Sentence Story
Book, coffee, sitting in her favorite chair. All the comforts in the world she could want. Continue reading
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Fear & Love
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot Continue reading
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hmm
something is on your mind she said: its complicated he said: keep it yourself she said: fine he said: good she said: alright then he said: have a good day she said: fuck off Continue reading
A Pondering Mind 
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