Storycorps: Never Say Goodbye

StoryCorps 537: Never Say Goodbye (NPR, Jun 29)
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Hi, Gwen.

So, today I did a thing.

And it was sort of a monumental thing.

Something I could have done a long time ago,

but I didn't.


potential deferred`and such...

anyway. I conceived a thing.

And asked for help.

And I wracked my brain for ideas.

And I chose a thing.

And I let the idea change without throwing it away.

And I found inspiration.

And I used what I've learned in the past.

And didn't give up when it got trying.

And didn't let the deviL win.

And did a thing.

Probably the thing that should have been my graduate project...but, you know, different.

...and people seemed to like it.

It wasn't perfect.

There were some things that didn't go the way I intended.

But there's always next time.

Yes, NEXT time.

Because I believe in the idea. And I believe I can do it again.

I did work. And it felt good.


and I'm glad it happened on Your day.


happy birthday Gwen.

I love you.

I hope you were in the room with me.



peace:

c w j

I don't want to get up.

"Fewer people want to hear my most potent stories, ans those are the ones I want to tell."

Storyteller in "Who Fears Death"

 

It's odd…

 

Whenever I hear a reference to New Jersey…well, the part adjacent to the City, anyway…

 

Or maybe not just that –

 

But when I do, I miss you a little.

Why some women choose to get circumcized

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/female-genital-mutilation-cutting-anthropologist/389640/

"My Great Grandfather the Nigerian Slave Trader"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-great-grandfather-the-nigerian-slave-trader

RE:

a genderfluid young adult told me I was the crunchiest person they've ever known.

 

I didn't delve into the specifics of that perception.

 

 

I just reveled a bit in the achievement.

 

I think I just looked up and saw the cloudiness of the "Magellanic" with my naked eye for the first time .

 

"rejoiced"

 

As an adjective.

 

hm.