Wisdom

walking outside

my three year old daughter

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interested

I asked

what’s forgiveness ?

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it’s love daddy

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Image: Geo Sans

Privileged

I didn’t know

what I had

until I met others

without

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Memories

guangdong

my daughter’s grandpa

as a young boy

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japanese soldiers

ransack the home

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hide

be still

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a soldier defecates

on the kitchen table

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I’m so naive

I’m so lucky

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Indoctrinate

do we ever question

the illusion

of culture ?

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young children

understand

a watch

is still a watch

when upside-down

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a triangle

is still

a triangle

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letters, numbers

dictate different rules

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a letter “p”

becomes a “d”

flipped horizontally

becomes a “b”

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same shapes

different interpretations

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we’re all strange symbols

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Twins

my grandpa

had an identical twin

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his brother

drank, beat his wife

an extreme nationalist

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in 1926

my grandpa

made a choice

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never seeing

his fatherland

his family

again

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identical genes

same upbringing

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how can two people be so different ?

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Roles

strange intonations

unable to comprehend

structure, sound

synesthesia

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am I the writer

or merely a character

in my own life

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First Date

20 years ago

art school

strolling through her space

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a photocopy on her wall

an italian sculpture titled

dog defecating

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a massive bronze retriever

curving his body

immortalized forever

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she chuckled …

isn’t it hilarious

someone went out of their way

to create this

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I’ve always loved her quirkiness

her unusual sense of humor

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I had to ask her out

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Nanoscopic

each stanza

a sequence

of dna

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communicating

who I am

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determining

what I might never be

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us

are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Small Town Hockey

in canada

hockey was considered

an official religion

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a player

was traditionally

tough, fast

hard-working

honest, fair

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the respect

for yourself, your teammates, your opponents

taught important lessons

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you learned

to win, to lose

with dignity

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you learned to play

with emotional poise

integrity

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you learned to play

as a team

believing, trusting

each other

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sometimes

I don’t know what to believe

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Kiss and Tell

it’s interesting when

one’s temple

one’s mind, one’s body

becomes infected

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I’ve heard

we’re free to chose

our actions

not our consequences

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self righteousness

is a dangerous game

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