More Shit from the Locker
Slowly it goes, and no sooner than I clear a path through the living room than I return to the locker and refill it. I reached the back today - some interesting finds, creepy dolls, jewelry for the daughter, watches, Thai Amulets, Cameras, and more, more, more. It's all gotta go. I want to be free.
I watch, every day through the beltline, the procession of homelessness, vagrants, junkies, the mentally ill, every one with a shopping cart filled to the brim with rubbish. Trash. They push and drag it throughout the city for the whole of their remaining lives, they can't let go of this, the poverty of material things, they're tied to it, bound by it, just as everyone else, only nobody else is migrating across town, living in the street, but they're all just as damned.
I'm letting go of it all, soon enough...
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Pricing Wrong
A lot of Calgary thrift shops, I've noticed, have gotten expensive in the 2 years I've been gone. Ridiculously so. It's a curious inversion - when the economy is doing well, the superabundance of cheap superfluous consumer goods makes it's way to the thrift shop to be cheapened even further. In times that are a bit leaner - like now for instance, things are marked up - fewer donations and more customers mean they can charge more.
Still, sometimes they get it wrong. Way wrong. When first I got here I spotted a handsome, modern, well made teak table. The price? $1800.00 Maybe not bad for what it is, I'm sure it cost more at the shop it came from, but - really? WTF? $1800?
And I needed a table, several actually, but I made do with cheaper garbage. In the months since they've acquired a few new tables - identical, a high end furniture place must have went out of business...
This is the last update I spotted on the price - and it's still for sale:
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The Premonition of Love
In Japanese it's pronounced "Koi No Yokan". One of those phrases for which there's no English equivalent, although I think "The Premonition of Love" works quite nicely. That feeling when you see someone for the first time and you somehow just intuitively KNOW, a little more pragmatic than "Love at first sight", it implies that you need to know them first, but when you do...
Read more at the BBC's website: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180103-the-untranslatable-japanese-phrase-that-predicts-love
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Precognition
And this is an odd thing, that seldom am I interrupted from my naps but always I seem to awaken a minute before a text or phone call would otherwise disturb me. A pattern. The meditation is working...
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