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Daily Archives Sunday, January 2008

“Thinking Outside the Box” | A Yuletide Apocalypse

Although ADHD is still classified a disorder because of the challenges individual’s face with it, I’m more convinced everyday that it is a way of thinking and processing the world that is so beneficial to humanity, we must turn our attention to it…. There is a popular book out right now, The Black Swan, about how all major changes come from ‘outliers’ in the world of ideas, the strange and misunderstood ideas that don’t fit into conceptual frameworks of the day but prove to shift humanity to new heights.

Posted 06 January 2008 † Yuletide § Aside ‡ Comments (1) °

On Poop

At home, people talk about work lives, sex lives; but in Mongolia, we had whole soap-operas worth of material and drama pertaining to nothing more than diarrhea and its many relatives…. This extreme take on a traditionally sensitive subject (flexibility borne of necessity and increasing familiarity with said subject’s less desirable territories) exposes the opposite extreme in which we are perpetually trapped back in the 1st world.

Posted 06 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , ,

The Arrival of Winter

from a piece begun on 10/9/07, 9:24 pm: UB is a different city now — the cold has arrived; there is snow by the sides of the street and blanketing the flanking mountains…. My breath grows thicker by the day, and I begin to see and feel the first signs of smog, clouds hovering outside our front door, waiting to be drawn in. After a few weeks I have a smoker’s cough, nothing too violent; just a persistent aggravation.

Posted 06 January 2008 † Yuletide § Writing ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

On Water

Or catch experiences in mid-air, like the glistening stalks of grass along a frozen lakeshore — caught in the surf’s nightly descent into solidness. Or they can be free to meander about, a skin-tingling mist, pulling in passing rays and exposing their true colors.

Posted 06 January 2008 † Yuletide § Creative Nonfiction § Exercises ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Ger: A Voicethread

P.s. I really do not like Voicethread.

The original poem .

Posted 06 January 2008 † Yuletide § Multimedia § Poetry ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,