Life is starting to kick into gear, well school life anyway. I haven't the foggiest what "real life" consists of; to me its this amorphous collection of things you have to do, places you can't go anymore, and bills. Somehow bills are always associated with the haze that is "real life". I was talking (random tangent: is there a difference between talking to someone and speaking with someone? I wonder??) anyway, I was mulling over a somewhat related thread with Toque last night. He said that no matter what state of life you're in - real, school, after school, somewhere in between - you need to stop every once in a while and just look around at the beauty of life and the world (I am not doing justice to his words...)
I think this year will be full of wandering and exploration. Campus and the hills around are beautiful and work wonders on a restless soul, but I want to see more. Its a good thing that the Sprit has Darling and that she is in decent condition. For the road is calling, and there is a tug on my heart that will not be ignored, and my feet have too long tread the same trail...
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And now back to your regularly scheduled broadcast....
02 September 2004
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I think talking TO someone means speaking AT them: trying to get your own ideas, needs, wants across. Talking WITH someone has more of a sense of a give-and-take conversation; and this involves a lot of listening. These kinds of conversations often have moments of silence, time when each is mulling over what the other has said, and a certain contented sense of indugence in the other...
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