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I need to wake out of my stupor and begin work. ...my body stands frozen in a snow packed tundra waiting for rescue. It may take a few days before that happens, since my mind is on vacation in Alberta right now.

— Michael Scott Gallegos

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Aesthetics is merely an undiscovered force, expressed by a yet un-devised mathematical equation.

Meditation takes chaos and begins magically morphing it into nothing.

Monday could not have arrived on a worse day. It could have been polite and waited until Tuesday or even Wednesday.

Magic gave a final wink and wave as it vanished into the cascading darkness of the dark lonely back road.

Human nature is very myopic about its existence. It very much wants to think their current reality is the absolute reality.

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