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We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.
Cuppa? Originally uploaded by thordora I’m not a big stuff person. Sure, I like things. But if they go missing, or break, I don’t miss them much. A small “huh” usually suffi… more »
Spin Me I Pulsate
We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.
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thordora wrote 3 weeks ago: Cuppa? Originally uploaded by thordora I’m not a big stuff person. Sure, I like things. But … more »
"Age is opportunity no less,than youth itself, though in another dress. And as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled by the stars invisible by the day."
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thordora wrote 1 month ago: A perfect day Elise: PJ Harvey I’ve always loved this song. The tension, the pacing of the st … more »
"Let us stifle under mud at the pond's edge and affirm that it is fitting and delicious to lose everything. "
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thordora wrote 1 month ago: I’m sitting in the waiting room to do my stress test, staring at an older woman, and a younger … more »
"this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light. "
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thordora wrote 2 months ago: On the bus I pass a bridge with that unfortunate year chiseled into it’s side. 1989. The year … more »
Crank Pot
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thordora wrote 2 months ago: I am unbelievable foul today. I’m tired, I’m fighting with the scratch in my throat and … more »
Nineteen
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thordora wrote 2 months ago: 2 days. I can place myself in my mother’s shoes. Watching the grass spring into place from the … more »
"She's too young to see that as we gather losses, we may also grow in love;as in passion, the body shudders and clutches what it must release."
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thordora wrote 2 months ago: Mother I wish….. I wish many things. I wish you had explained things to me better. I wish I wo … more »
"Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous."
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thordora wrote 3 months ago: Cranky, pissed off, unhappy, lonely, vengeful, angry, sad-with a dash of hypomania thrown in. Someti … more »
"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."
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thordora wrote 3 months ago: This year, this April marks 19 years without my mother. With her, but not with her. The dead neve … more »
"Memory becomes your partner. You nuture it. You hold it. You dance with it."
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thordora wrote 4 months ago: The other day I bought the first season of Six Feet Under, one of my most favorite shows ever. (Watc … more »
"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts."
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thordora wrote 4 months ago: I miss my mother today. It’s subtle. Days, weeks, months-time will fly by with nary a thought … more »
12 Months
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thordora wrote 4 months ago: On a site many people are talking about a mother is dying. Maybe not today. Or tomorrow. But cancer … more »
"what do you like about your childhood?"
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thordora wrote 5 months ago: When I was very little, 4, maybe 5, my bedroom faced the river. I couldn’t see it from my wind … more »
"The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. "
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thordora wrote 5 months ago: Julie asks “What’s a pivotal childhood memory for you? And how do you carry it with you … more »
"The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory."
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thordora wrote 5 months ago: As I sat, folding laundry this morning, I stared over at my kids, at Rosalyn transfixed by Wonder Pe … more »
"Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have. "
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thordora wrote 5 months ago: The clock ticks, the wind blows outside, I sit listening to the smoker breathing of my father across … more »
Sickness or Health
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thordora wrote 7 months ago: I have the Fidel Castro of head colds. It will not die, relent or change course. It’s hanging … more »
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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thordora wrote 7 months ago: “Your grandmother loved horses. Your grandmother was even worse when she combed my hair-she ga … more »
"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. "
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thordora wrote 7 months ago: I think of being an orphan frequently. It fills my thoughts some days, others, I barely feel it. Whe … more »
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