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Flying, but invisible, but okay: 04.2010
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Flying, but invisible, but okay. Thursday, April 15, 2010. At lunchtime, people drive down to the river. Trucks from the phone company, shiny Jeeps, dirty cars. Face the slowly moving Susquehanna. And a soft green reflection of warmth. The watchers pull sandwiches and apples from brown bags;. Burgers and fries from white sacks; hoagies from plastic tubes. And chew while they watch a breeze make lines on the water. Today, comes into view, a man on a homemade raft, a long barge. Imagining they are him.
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Flying, but invisible, but okay: 07.2010
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Flying, but invisible, but okay. Wednesday, July 14, 2010. For what and for whom. Rain for the garden. Rain for the river. Running for the heart and lungs. Running for the eyes and mind. Fireflies for the night. Fireflies for the moon. Posted by Ben at 10:27 PM. Links to this post. Pennsylvania, United States. View my complete profile. More about Ben (as of about 2003). For what and for whom. Old thought made new. Focus on the object. Ben just Ben's photos.
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Flying, but invisible, but okay: 09.2007
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Flying, but invisible, but okay. Sunday, September 02, 2007. Later today, the following quote from James Michener's "Centennial" ran through my head. In the year 9268 B.C. at the chalk cliffs west of Rattlesnake Buttes, a human being twenty-seven years old, and therefore ancient and about to die, studied a chunk of rock which a younger man had quarried from the mountains.". Posted by Ben at 10:22 PM. Links to this post. Pennsylvania, United States. View my complete profile. For what and for whom.
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Flying, but invisible, but okay: 08.2006
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Flying, but invisible, but okay. Wednesday, August 16, 2006. Old thought made new. I wrote this back in February 2003 and had forgotten about it. I came across it today and was surprised by how much I liked it. Photocopied sheets with various pictures of Kelly appeared like mold on telephone poles and on downtown walls. They took the place of real people in those places. The town had at once been silenced by her disappearance and populated exclusively by her visage. Posted by Ben at 10:26 PM.
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Flying, but invisible, but okay: 02.2006
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Flying, but invisible, but okay. Thursday, February 23, 2006. Something appeals to me about making this item a liquid. Despite obvious analogues to precious materials in today’s world, there is something hopeful about a fluid. At first, I thought of something that glows, but that seemed unsubtle. Although an inverted vase shape that emits its own light still appeals to me. Posted by Ben at 2:06 AM. Links to this post. Tuesday, February 21, 2006. Focus on the object. Posted by Ben at 2:16 AM. For what and...
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Flying, but invisible, but okay: 05.2006
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Flying, but invisible, but okay. Monday, May 22, 2006. As I walked down the hill and home, the town and its houses were quiet. There were no people outside. It was a little cool, but dry. The trees made up for the silence of the people. The wind made branches and leaves rock and thrash in broad currents and whorls. It was very much like a stormy sea. Posted by Ben at 1:46 AM. Links to this post. Pennsylvania, United States. View my complete profile. More about Ben (as of about 2003). For what and for whom.
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Flying, but invisible, but okay: 04.2006
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Flying, but invisible, but okay. Sunday, April 02, 2006. I had an interesting train of thought that left from the station of an article I was reading. When I finally hopped off the mental locomotive, surprisingly, it landed me on the next story I read. I read the brief Space Auditing in the Readings section of the April Harper’s. It describes the attempted dilution (free subscription required). Of the Big Bang theory by George Deutsch. A political appointee serving in the Press Office. Or something like ...
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Flying, but invisible, but okay: 06.2011
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Flying, but invisible, but okay. Thursday, June 09, 2011. I keep having this dream. No wait, that's not right. I keep thinking about this dream I had once. I don't have recurring dreams. Never have. But this dream, I wish I could have it every night. It is lovely. It gives me a soft feeling on the back of my neck, like someone reading my palm or getting a haircut from an attentive barber. I'm riding in a parade float, as far as I can tell. There's confetti-like stuff coming down, a ticker tape parade.
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Flying, but invisible, but okay: 04.2009
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Flying, but invisible, but okay. Thursday, April 09, 2009. A giant laboratory to search for the particle. A tiny room, compared, in size to this workbench of a star and its system. From the window, a view opens, overlaid with grid lines and paths of orbits. The bounds of the window belie the vastness of this vista. It all seems so conceivable this way. But press the face close to the glass, make the walls disappear. Better to gather the oculars back in. But keep the head close to that window. Dar...
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