accounts from auj's progression through life

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genie in my lamp

I have never not gotten what I wanted. Neither have you.

Say you want something, snap your fingers and wait cause it's waiting around the threshold.

What do you really want?

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I said last night I would fill my life with empty pots and let time determine what grows inside them. Because in a short while, one of my beautifuls will be leaving for a few months. I don't know what I'll do without her...so to speak.

oatmeal with brown sugar and black tea by itself. A meal fit for Angela's Ashes. Sustenance. What does it matter. I'm fed.

Food in my belly. Love in my life. Who can complain. La vie en . . . . .

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"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."--NA serenity prayer as quoted by Sarah and Holly in the kitchen eating their oats with olive oil and drinking Becks for breakfast. Bellas. Ballas.

The only silt on their lamp is a distorted, contorted and black and blue family.

11:46 a.m. - 2008-03-26

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