tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66426782024-03-13T14:42:48.477-07:00bigBADbobby.blogspot.comThe collection of my endeavors. The temple of my mind.Robert Zameeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09047236340766447992noreply@blogger.comBlogger776125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642678.post-61567143384050931982013-01-28T06:03:00.001-08:002013-02-12T09:11:41.499-08:00Night moon<div style="-moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 20px; width: 550;">
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"This is what I'm talkin' 'bout: notes on my notebook. Thanks, Miss Sherry!" </div>
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I watched today as two leaves, the last two, fought to hang on to the tree that had brought them into the world. They flailed in the Chicago wind, gritting their teeth to put on a face for the other that strength and resolve were far from broken.<br />
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One of them would be the last to let go of the cord that had reared them, unsure of what the next step would hold, be it life or death. Would there be a whole new world to experience or would that world bring nothing more than dirt?<br />
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I looked on these two leaves that had grown up next door to each other and spent their lives together; when one eventually gives up the fight the other won’t be far behind.<br />
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I wondered if the last leaf to fall thought the leaves that fell before him looked up on him and praised his strength. I wondered if he felt the call to join every single person he knew, as he stood there… alone. I wondered if he more strongly felt that he was in control of his destiny or if his destiny controlled him; would he make the decision to change or would change make the decision for him?<br />
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As the sun let the gray sky turn dark both leaves had lived another day.
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thinking a lot about the Phoenix lately, and how to rise from the darkness that’s
surrounded me these past few years. Maybe poetry is part of rising again… if I
can distill these emotions and thoughts into simple lines, which together aren’t
so simple at all… perhaps they can balance the tens of thousands of words swirling around in my head attempting to create my novel. Over long periods of time the weight of all those words wears me down, and I just want it to be over...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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These boundaries now covered.</div>
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Subconscious remission,</div>
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I coincidentally met Trek today, a man aptly named for he has spent most of his life living up to his name: months living in the desert alone, a year of driving the States, and other adventures throughout the world. I made the one block walk down to my office away from my office, a coffee shop I can nearly hit with a strong throw of a stone, whereas he'd driven more than 26,000 miles to get to the same place.</div>
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It easy to think your day's mundane work is uninteresting, but to someone else the things you do are magical. A college professor once told me that there is at least one thing to learn from every person you meet, and I have never found his words to be untrue.</div>
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And I recommend this gentleman's story: <a href="http://thegoodinamerica.com/blog">The Good in America</a>.
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Robert Zameeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09047236340766447992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642678.post-11678725760033874672012-09-21T12:08:00.000-07:002012-09-21T12:08:00.108-07:00Moving on...This song has been in my head for two days. It comes back over and over
again because it's made me think of all the people in my life who are in
such similar places. Where is that place? Trying as hard as we fucking
can to learn from our mistakes, perhaps pondering decisions we want to
make in the future, wishing like hell we make better ones the second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth time around. I learned from
writing my novel that I have a tendency to do the same things
repeatedly, expecting a different result, and we all know that
definition. We all have a novel in us, but we express it in different
ways. As long as we express it, I consider it written, it's through that
expression that we learn about ourselves.<br />
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My mom said, "In order to
find love, you have to know you. In order to know you, you must have the
courage to experience and fail. So, in order to know love, you must
have failed--hit a note with any of us? Yeah. Duh.<br />
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So, I come
back to this song, and what this song says to me is that if ever there's
a person who is right for me, then I want to feel this way about her,
and her about me, because this song is about heart, that unmistakable
hold that you happily, trustfully allow someone to have on you and that
you have on them--two hearts together that can accomplish wonderfully
amazing things that we could never do alone. I believe in this. And this song is about light, how when we shine, then we wouldn't trade each other for the most trustworthy source of light known to man, the sun, because we <i>give</i> each other the light we need to live. I've
been writing about it and trying to find it for years, and I still
believe in it, and I hope that never changes.<br />
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When you have 4 minutes at the end of your day, listen to the song in your ear buds and read along to the lyrics.<br />
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And I love her so<br />
I wouldn't trade her for gold<br />
Walking on moonbeams<br />
I was born with a silver spoon<br />
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Hell I'm gonna be me<br />
Gonna be free<br />
Walking on moonbeams<br />
And staring out to sea<br />
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And if a door be closed<br />
Then a row of homes start building<br />
And tear your curtains down<br />
For sunlight is like gold<br />
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Hell you better be you<br />
And do what you can do<br />
When you're walking on moonbeams<br />
And staring out to sea<br />
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'Cause if your skin was soil<br />
How long do you think before they'd start digging?<br />
And if your life was gold<br />
How long do you think you'd stay living?<br />
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And I love her so<br />
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Robert Zameeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09047236340766447992noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6642678.post-18714523257555004532012-09-20T08:49:00.002-07:002012-09-20T10:42:01.965-07:00Survive before you can feel alive<br />
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Had a great conversation with a friend the other night about our hierarchy of needs. We may be fighting for our lives right now. Fighting to put on a smile each day and make it all work. Fighting not to kick someone's ass (in my case it's my own ass that could use some kicking). Fighting with so much effort to stay alive that romantic emotions simply aren't there. We can't force them to be there. When I look at all the women who cross my path each day, aside from those I'm truly honored to already have there, I rarely feel that tug. You know, that tug that makes me want to know her. What's her favorite color? Where does she want to go? Who does she want to be? When she needs it to be quiet, where does she find the place to do it? But every so often, the tug reminds me with a kick in the gut that I want to stop <i>trying</i> to live and get back to <i>being</i> alive, "OMG, I can <i>feel</i> that she's got a story worth listening to."<br />
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With hard work (and writing), I expect and look forward to the day when self-security leads back to passionate advance, because I'd much rather spend my time thinking about new ways to love than new ways to survive.<br />
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"The journey begins..."</div>
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