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Burned out
Burnout became the theme I was sucked into this past week, but at least it ended on a positive note. Note the burnout was something internal but could be partially due to events only partially related to my day-to-day drudgery. But the feeling festered, and I felt worthless and wounded. I should move slower in…
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Clearing my head
There’s nothing quite like touching grass, as the kids say. Yesterday, my son and I went to Oxbo Park in Roswell, and there’s a bridge from that park to Vickery Creek National Recreation Area. By the time we got there, it was already too late, and we had to turn around. But that brief little…
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Wastelander
Here’s a poem for a change, one I will not worry about publishing, so it’ll end up only appearing here. It’s a kind of old, abandoned one from when I was playing Fallout 3 and was haunted by taking a dark path. Wastelander I am a wastelander,glowing with dangerous insanityin clothes pried off imaginary corpses.…
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Took my EV across the state line
So I was a little bit hesitant to take my car out of state and, granted, the availability of charging isn’t what it is where I live in metro Atlanta but, as you can see from the above photo, the demand isn’t either. When I arrived, a large gas-powered truck was parked in the shadiest…
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Tranquil Gardens and what I’m reading
It trips me out that they named a neighborhood after the retirement home that used to be there: Tranquil Gardens Nursing Home and Memory Care. And it didn’t merely close. It closed with very little warning — just three days, according to the AJC — to the patients and family members, not to mention the…
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What to do when you see a turtle crossing the road
Help it, of course! I did that this morning while on the way to the farmer’s market. I stopped, put on the hazard lights, got out, gently grabbed it on both sides of its shell and took it where it was headed. It was a decent sized turtle, not a mammoth but certainly not the…
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Kimberly L. Wright 