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Dead Things
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Hiking about in fields looking for fossils, artifacts, no great finds, but a couple of rather grim images...
Of course, High noon and the stark light overhead, high contrast, no color, and I have only the camera on my phone (as the batteries in my other, I discover, have long since died.). But there is a certain beauty and grim architecture in death and these finds, and I'm tempted to grab the antlers and skull as this would be the belt buckle I've always wanted, but there's still some decomp. to be done and so I leave them...
Flood in an old house...
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I am living in an old house with my father and my son. There is going to be a flood, and I've gone downstairs to the basement to rescue the dogs...dachshunds, there are 5 puppies in the litter, on the first try I find 3, bring them upstairs, return, find another, bring it upstairs, returning to look for the last one, have to find it quick, there are other things to be rescued here, on a shelf the boy has returned home and left me a pack of cigarettes, (??, name, ?? not my brand), through several doors looking for this last of the dachshunds, finally I find it...
Princess on my chest
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A short nap, and I'd barely drifted off when I dreamed that my old cat, Princess, was sitting on my chest, trying to wake me. And tired of waiting and flicking her tail she leaned forward and bit me hard on the fingers, woke up suddenly with the pain of the bite still in my fingers, shaking them out, no pain, but I think that I should call L**** and see that the cat is alright...
We Buy Gold
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A well written article on the ethics of pawnbrokers. Having had to frequent these places in my financially chequered past, I can assure you the picture he paints is probably on the kind side...noteworthy how he started off in Calgary, and ended up becoming a professor of philosophy...
Link: http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/we-buy-broken-gold
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