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“What are you reading?”
(Not about reading) Kids have a certain kind of straightforwardness, honesty that often comes off as brutal, unnecessarily truthful, and cruel: “Oh my god, I didn’t know you were that old,” they tell me. As we grow, we learn politeness, whether real, phony, bogus: “Oh, please. You are so young,” the adults lie. For these […]
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Life gets in the way
I feel time more accurately now. Its passing, getting away, from me; what has been, what could have been, and what is yet to come, all wrapped up in time, and its nonchalant passing. Part growing older, part paying more attention to time. When time finally runs out, I wonder, would I be okay with […]