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Tag Archives: affluence
smart set sidewalks – July 2
6.19.2015 smart set sidewalks high rent casual diners what happens to a nice town after affluence discovers the lakeside seaside ambience that used to be for year-longers who hung on when summer touries moved on … Continue reading
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Tagged affluence, ambivalence, change, gentrification, town and gown
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sonorous voices – April 22
4.22.2015 sonorous voices almost too perfect as if funereal was a verb. as in, to funeralize, to speak smoothly, beautifully, hopefully with just the right sob in the throat and cheer-cheeked peek into the sky. i hope to … Continue reading
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Tagged affluence, cynicism, death, first-world, funerals, God, humor, mortality, perspective, Pets, pomposity, refugees, third world
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Ho Ho HOLD it – November 20
11.20.2104 I have so many clothes STUFFING my drawers so full I have to press down to fit them in while people down town wrap an extra coat onto their backs just to carry around what they … Continue reading
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Tagged affluence, burden, Christmas, compassion, enough, giving, need, over-abundance, overwhelmed, plenty, possessions, Thanksgiving
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first-world problem – August 27
8.27.2014 worst dinner out terrible service in an expensive setting. slow, graceless uncomfortable and uncaring but a first-world problem. while people starve who would wait half a day for even a nibble chalk it up. —————————-
black escalade stuck – February 26
2.26.2014 black escalade stuck in the snowbank bleach blond driver tight on her cell when you’re going sideways four-wheel drive don’t mean nothin’ ————————-
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Tagged affluence, cars, Escalade, ice, overconfidence, pretension, SUV, Winter
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affluence kills the gods – October 16
10.16 affluence kills the gods believing that nothing else is needed and all that is, is all. harder than the camel’s eye the illusion of plenty fosters, in place of perspective, despair. and happy faces smile until it … Continue reading
I’ll give you a reason to cry… September 18
9.18 I live in such a nice place, no blown in walls, no blood on the floor where the soldiers came to beat my family raw. I can walk around the block, down a trail, even at growing dusk, … Continue reading
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Tagged affluence, childhood, empathy, feelings, original sin, pain, poverty, scarcity, sin separation, unhappiness, war
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domain regrets – May 19
5.19 The turtle’s shell spit out of my mower’s chute as I sped to prune my domain. I thought it had been a rock in the leaves. Turning it over was just ugly. My lawn wasn’t worth his life. … Continue reading
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Tagged affluence, arrogance, death, perspective, possession, regret, sorrow, suburbs
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