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Nietzschean
(Hmm, when would I last have had to check the spelling of that word, two or three times just to make sure – even though I am now sure it always frets at me a bit. But not as much as it used to.) Full moon, lunar eclipse, solar equinox, near Christmas. After a few…
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Overlapping
World AIDS Day. The past few days snowy, quiet. Feeling fairly well actually, few or no side effects – a big improvement over the five days of low-level fever last week. Thus less distracted, less incoherent. Tonight was a masked ball – a fundraiser, a chaos of music and people (about 130, which is quite…
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The Wish
On television, an old – and favorite – episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from 1998, called 'The Wish'. Not 'favorite' as in 'fun': this is one of the frightening episodes where everything goes horribly wrong – in a moment of petty irritation, Cordelia wishes that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale. Unfortunately, when she…
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Brief friends
I have a small black canister of Mariage Frères' Marco Polo tea – a secret blend by classy London tea-makers, one of their most famous, and one of the most delicious and curious blends of flavors… too complex and subtle for me to describe, though a skilled cook could probably identify many of its elements.…
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Symptoms
So: after having fussed and fussed (and fussed) about this treatment; and then latterly become conscious that I've been making it all a much more anxious activity than it needed to be… I discover the next stage of my talent for making things more difficult than they need to be. The first two injections –…
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Samhain
Today, the second of what I estimate to be three astoundingly difficult days of change: I would have said before, of disaster and loss, but now I'm not so sure. A great crisis at work that has been held at bay for eight years. And crashing into the new medications, which has all gone –…
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Paul Attinello 