the journey home..

"they" read this at funerals:

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:30:37 -0500

there's a season for everything,.... a time for every matter:.... there's a time to be born, and there most certainly is a time to die. apparently the fall of 2009 is the time to die.

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and this will happen again; will i actually change?

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:03:30 -0500

the death of an acquaintance is peculiar. mostly, i feel regret for the actions i often display around people i barely know. sometimes, when seeing one in passing, i will simply ignore them, not to disturb them nor i. i choose for them how they'd ...

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i'm going to say it,

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:03:29 -0400

i'm not happy. but happiness was never God's plan for me, it was redemption

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i know quoting lyrics shouldn`t qualify as a blog post..

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:36:22 -0400

if we can call them friends then we can call them on their telephones and they won't pretend that they're too busy or that they're not alone and if we can call them friends then we can call holler at them down these hallowed halls just don't l...

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company with you and the saints

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:10:35 -0400

Another mug of coffee emptied, and another day wishing it was spent mostly in bed. Ice cream attempts failed, but you fail to forget me. Moping, i find a cornerstore, to buy a popsicle, reach into my pocket looking for three quarters and in my ha...

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this needs to be blogged.

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:48:34 -0400

I found this poem in a journal I haven't started yet. my guess was it was written late 2008/early 2009. i can ask questions like, Lord, why would you make us suffer? or continue to shift human blame onto God in other ways. i can make myself more...

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stigma & success in a society of messed-up values..

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:07:39 -0400

Maybe some of you know that I work in long term, high level, supportive housing for folks who are diagnosed with schizophrenia. imagine 3 row-house with the insides knocked down, 21 single-occupancy rooms, a giant kitchen & a pile of living rooms....

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june + july!

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:15:02 -0400

دير القديس سمعان الخراز . عزبة الذبالين. منشاة ناصر. القاهرة. مصر will be my home for five weeks --- saint samaan the tanner monastery, mansheat nasser, garbage village, cairo.

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endings [or maybe, beginnings]

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:54:25 -0400

i've been in school since i was three, but in three days i will be done school. (for i don't know how long). there's a lot of things i will miss about university, a lot of things learned. i'm making a running list of these things, random memorie...

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I didn't ask to be born.

nobody@vox.com(naomi) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:22:30 -0400

Maybe you know this kind of crying; mostly silent and a constant flow of warm tears. Yesterday was Easter Sunday, my most important holiday (yet I couldn't find my way to a church at all during Holy Week). I was on a greyhound bus toward Kitchene...

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