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Count Up the Almonds – Bikes, Books, and Blues
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Bikes, Books, and Blues. A girl and her bike. An interview with the author. Rules of the Road. Count Up the Almonds. Count up the almonds,. Count what was bitter and kept you waking,. Count me in too:. I sought your eye when you looked out and no one saw you,. I spun that secret thread. Where the dew you mused on. Slid down to pitchers. Tended by a word that reached no one’s heart. There you first fully entered the name that is yours,. You stepped toward yourself on steady feet,. We drink and we drink.
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Book List – Bikes, Books, and Blues
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Bikes, Books, and Blues. A girl and her bike. An interview with the author. Rules of the Road. First, a joke (read it out loud):. A chicken walks into a library, up to the front desk, and looks at the librarian on staff and says “Book book! 8221; Puzzled, the librarian hands him a book, and he walks out the door. About ten minutes later, the chicken returns and again says “book book! 8221; the librarian hands him a book, and then follows him out the door. 2 War Memorials as Political Landscape Mayo, James.
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The days keep passing – Bikes, Books, and Blues
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Bikes, Books, and Blues. A girl and her bike. An interview with the author. Rules of the Road. The days keep passing. It’s been 11 days. It feels like yesterday, but yet, it feels like it was forever ago. I still cry. I still miss her like crazy. I cried yesterday. I cried today! This is definitely the “blues” part of my blog title. You can’t prescribe or predict mourning or grief or commemoration for anyone. This is partially what I am trying to say with my studies about memorials and commemor...The old...
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BlueRoses – Bikes, Books, and Blues
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Bikes, Books, and Blues. A girl and her bike. An interview with the author. Rules of the Road. Or not, as I don’t really know enough about stats to do any calculations, but here is a numbers based review of the biggest thing I just did:. 10,359 miles by plane. 733 miles by bus. 176 miles by rental car. 10 miles (or so) of subway rides. 25 miles (or so) by cab. 150 miles (give or take a few dozens) walked (in museums, surface streets, through subway stations and airport terminals). 1100 photos and videos.
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Rules of the Road – Bikes, Books, and Blues
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Bikes, Books, and Blues. A girl and her bike. An interview with the author. Rules of the Road. Rules of the Road. This should go without saying, but you own the car you drive in, or the bike you ride on, not the whole road. Don’t act like everyone else is just messing up your day. They have places to go and people to see as well. Drive your vehicle with mindfulness and courtesy for others at all times. Give them extra room. See someone who appears drunk? MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVING TIPS:. Be patient and wait u...
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Elegy for a Suicide – Bikes, Books, and Blues
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Bikes, Books, and Blues. A girl and her bike. An interview with the author. Rules of the Road. Elegy for a Suicide. She always liked to blow the candles out. Fact:. There’s only so much you can do with friction. And an intentional hand before the hand burns. The sound that scissors make in a child’s hand. While crunching construction paper aches when. She grows older. Even popcorn ceilings lose that style,. That feeling of a cereal freshly drowned in milk. High in the trees on the other side of leaves.
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Statistically Speaking…. – Bikes, Books, and Blues
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Bikes, Books, and Blues. A girl and her bike. An interview with the author. Rules of the Road. Or not, as I don’t really know enough about stats to do any calculations, but here is a numbers based review of the biggest thing I just did:. 10,359 miles by plane. 733 miles by bus. 176 miles by rental car. 10 miles (or so) of subway rides. 25 miles (or so) by cab. 150 miles (give or take a few dozens) walked (in museums, surface streets, through subway stations and airport terminals). 1100 photos and videos.
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Love… – Bikes, Books, and Blues
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Bikes, Books, and Blues. A girl and her bike. An interview with the author. Rules of the Road. LOVE is anterior to life,. Posterior to death,. Initial of creation, and. The exponent of breath. 8211; Emily Dickinson. This is the last photo I took of Noire before we left for the vet’s office. She is still beautiful, but her face just says it all to me. And look how small she is. This entry was posted in blues. Count Up the Almonds. The days keep passing →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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On Death, Without Exaggeration – Bikes, Books, and Blues
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Bikes, Books, and Blues. A girl and her bike. An interview with the author. Rules of the Road. On Death, Without Exaggeration. Wislawa Szymborska (translated from Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh). It can’t take a joke,. Find a star, make a bridge. It knows nothing about weaving, mining, farming,. Building ships, or baking cakes. In our planning for tomorrow,. It has the final word,. Which is always beside the point. It can’t even get the things done. That part of its trade:. Dig a grave,.
