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Monday, December 16, 2002

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what i rolled today:
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland:
let it drop. The one whose cash rolled farthest away took it up and threw it against the wall in such a way as to make it bound back as far as possible. Each did this in turn. The one whose cash bounded farthest, then took it up, and with his foot on the place whence he had taken it, he pitched or threw it in turn at each of the others. Those he hit he took up. When he missed one, all who remained took up their cash and struck the wall again, going through the same process as before. The one who wins is the one who takes up most cash.

and this afternoon bekah's father and i were persuaded to let the bars out of the suit for what seems almost an insult. the law says what it says, and the bar owners and bar flies in san pedro, california, are not paradigms of honesty and virtue. i mean that's just my experience.

i've been working; outside, it's been raining. where am i? in 9 days it will be christmas. then the day after that, it'll be over again. for 18 years i worked at a small glass shop in Gardena, where we gathered daily at a card table in the shop for lunch. one december 26th back in the day, when i had plastic and all and the living room was half carpeted in presents because i spent about ten percent of my annual income on christmas, i felt so clever and witty when i reminded my coworkers, "Only 364 days left to shop!"
:)

bekah and her older brother back in the day, probably 1984

- posted by barbara @ 12/16/2002 08:46:00 PM

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