Tag: thoughts
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Morocco: Lessons from Tahar
My friend Tahar has the brightest face I have ever seen. He seemed to be friends with everybody—when he wasn’t talking to me, I would pass him at his shop conversing with locals and Western shoppers alike with that same luminous smile. When I was in a hurry, he was respectful. One of the few…
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Strike Rich
There is a golden age that one acquires when one strikes it rich– it has nothing to do with age, though it takes considerable time to get there. He wonders when his time will come– when the well– the fountain of youth and abundance the ancients searched for will spring forth– some searched for a…
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Grief
There aren’t words for grief; I will try. Sometimes it is looking in a mirror and realizing we were more similar than I thought. That makes me sad. Sometimes it is knowing she would not have been able to stand my drinking or the fact that I’m probably an atheist. That makes…
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Time
I stopped looking at life as how it could be, but as it was. I stopped to wonder why I had started to write my diary in past tense. Time seemed to me less of an upwards lateral and more of a circle. I sometimes thought I could tell the future. Or maybe that was…