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Tag Archives: emptiness
a partner goes away – June 11
6.11.2016 a partner goes away, her partner sitting in the front row while her brother and their son talk of what a wonderful person mom was. and dad just sits, almost alone, a grown child to one side but … Continue reading
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Tagged death, emptiness, funerals, grief, loneliness, marriage, mates, partners
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airport fever – April 14
4.14.2016 airport fever one more run between gates at O’Hare I swear you can taxi to Toledo. cell phone lives fill the time every thumb committed to touching something other than what’s immediately present. ——————–
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Tagged distance, distancing, distraction, emptiness, hassle, immediacy, travel
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flat affect – March 22
3.22.2016 a hard face across the table unresponding flat affect as if offended by all then pushing agenda out of need or pain. —————-
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Tagged anger, conflict, distance, emptiness, isolation, negotiation, pain, withholding
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emptied holy open time – November 27
11.27.2015 quiet, calm, emptied openness follows the season. holiday, holy day, hollowed out by movement day hurried, pushed, tiresome until stepped down from and back from and into quiet time, calm time, emptied holy open time … Continue reading
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Tagged emptiness, God, Holiday, holy day, openness, quiet, reclamation, reflection, respite, retreat, Sabbath, sacredness, spirit
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airport empty – October 3
10.3.2014 airport empty, acres of polished granite, voices echoing through spaces designed for masses lonely sparse, blank in between at the baggage claim waiting, waiting waiting for something to turn overlapping disks for movement while hope rises anxious. … Continue reading
out into the world – April 23
4.23.2014 wandering wandering the house seems vacant as if meaning took a powder when the book was finished like having a baby who then grows up and says bye bye without actually saying it gone. empty. space. out … Continue reading
epiphany 2 – January 6
1.6 wisdom written upon the sky is what they followed, best minds, hearts atuned to a pattern in the universe. the clouds at evening now stretch like a dark puzzle, spaces pushing light through the edges asking to be … Continue reading
years in the making – August 17
8.17 I strive to stay calm as the boy gets ready to leave. years in the making of being out in the world we planned for this along the way of course that he would go to … Continue reading
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Tagged Colleges and Universities, emptiness, empty nest, leaving home, Parent
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done – June 13
6.13 Sitting at the granite kitchen slab years in the planning and now here we sit only a step from finished. Like final exams and everything would be wonderful when done. Except life was flat. Empty. Just tiredness. … Continue reading
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Tagged adjusting, completion, emptiness, ennui, Final examination, home, projects, promised land, redemption, relationships, sadness
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