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Monthly Archives: February 2010

How to Keep a Friend

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Start with the first step. Proceed. Make a new friend. Spend time together. Be your true self, especially when it’s difficult. Disagree. Let them go. Figure out how to soothe yourself. Welcome them back. Willingly fall further into friendship’s gooey centre. Copy what you envy. Forget who’s who. Draw a line. Notice recurring border skirmishes. […]

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Books | A Trip to the Library

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I decided long ago that library fines are my way of donating to the public library system. This policy allows me to continue the super-nerdy behaviour I displayed as a book-hungry youth. In grade six I left the Black Mountain, North Carolina, school library after our weekly class visits with a teetering pile of books […]

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Letter to a Younger Self

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Dear Gracie, I’m heading into triple digits in a few months and that’s got me thinking about you, back there at the halfway mark. Don’t worry. No need to roll your eyes in anticipation of receiving Precious Life Lessons from your aged future self. Rather the opposite, in fact. I’d like to ask you a […]

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Pep Talk | Walk the Plank

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

What do you stand for? Is it Love or Beauty or Home or Peace … or, perhaps, The Acoustic Guitar. What it is matters less than that you know it. It’s the thing you’re a broken record about, the thing that stands the test of time. The thing your bones and cells know. It’s the […]

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