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		<title>entry153 &#8211; status of my human program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
    Confucius (551 BC &#8211; 479 BC)
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
    Japanese Proverb
gotta stop the melodrama. let me think positive and take a step forward.
last night a single glass of wine loosened the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>entry152 &#8211; i slipped on wine being sipped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[here&#8217;s a secret. i am horrible depressed. i just want to drink, eat meat and waste time hoping everything will pass. but fyi, depression means things are wrong! and drinking my night away will not change anything. in fact, it will make it worse. but man, i am telling you i am living the wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>entry151 &#8212; Iris&#8217;s favorite song &#8220;ripple.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[throughout the years many people have made lasting impressions on me. some people i remember possessing maturity and leadership skills that end up standing as a pillar of strength for me to lean on during hard times. some i remember as being free and that i envied. another i remember because of his grace.
then there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>entry150 &#8211; making little steps toward great self-improvement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(written a month ago&#8230; i delayed posting this because i do not want to face this)
it is time for me to face the status of my existence: i am unhappy. i am not the person i want to be. in order to become the person i wish to be i first must be clear about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>entry149 &#8211; the power friends have on my beliefs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[maybe one or two years ago i ridiculed a friend for having a certain person named angel in his top8 on myspace. i put him and his choice of supporting and believing in her down. i painted angel out to be selfish, shallow and insincere. i put him down for supporting her. after all this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>entry148 &#8211; musings, first poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[the blue flame dancing above white metal of the kitchen stove seemed harmless. it wasn&#8217;t red or threatening, but cool and soothing like flowing water. &#8220;is it hot?&#8221; i asked my mother while sitting in a chair pulled up to the stove so to watch the blue gas flame benign movements intimately. i had already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>entry147 &#8211; &#8220;Man in the Landscape&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature by Paul Shepard
&#8230;on deserts and prophets.
Landscapes without place names are disorienting; without categorical forms, awful. We think of heaven and hell as places; cling to the idea of an earthly paradise, even though only in a poetic sense; venerate historical sites; and imagine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>entry146 (topics: writers block, self-examination and life purpose)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(note: this musing inspired the &#8220;solving writers block&#8221; article)
this is one of the best ways to overcome writers block. i am typing in notepad and was previously staring at a white, blank space with a blinking cursor waiting for input from my keyboard. nothing comes out because there is nothing going on my head. or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>entry145</title>
		<description><![CDATA[schools have become beacons of conformity. sure, get good grades, follow the rules, and practice rote memorization one can end up a doctor or engineer. but those who &#8220;change the world&#8221; are those to take a step away from the box. school is no longer a place for these minds.
when i go back and read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>entry144</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i just sit here and stare at the screen sometimes. during these times i wait for the next distraction. if i find one i welcome it with a warm smile. during these times i realize how little self motivation one can have. what happed to the will, the self?  where did it go? is [...]]]></description>
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