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I recall many years ago... An acquaintance who through misfortune and misadventure had severed three toes from his left foot. Although he eventually recovered and adjusted to this misfortune he always walked thereafter with a pronounced limp. Several years after this incident he had the further bad luck to be involved in a cycling accident and this time he lost four toes from his right foot. Once again with the aide of professional help and prosthetics he was able to adjust. Although he made physical adjustment he could never let go or refrain from telling of these two incidents on every possible occasion. In my mind it became his key to acceptance and seemed to be his way of gaining some sympathy for his hard done by life. I became aware and felt quite ashamed of my lack of empathy and was alarmed at just how irritated I could become whenever around him. I determined that I should seek help of my own... to discover why I felt irritated so irrationally. I consulted with my GP and explained the circumstance in detail. I related how over the years the more I witnessed his actions and attitude the less restrained I could be in his presence. I would become both agitated and borderline aggressive when he would enter the room. My GP listened and after brief pause to ponder upon the story I related to him he reassured me that my reactions were quite normal and were not as uncommon as I thought them to be. I asked him if it were a defined medical condition and did I have need for concern. He replied.... "you are quite simply lack toes intolerant"
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Sep 27, 2020
Sep 27, 2020 at 12:00 AM UTC
A Lack of Empathy
I recall many years ago... An acquaintance who through misfortune and misadventure had severed three toes from his left foot. Although he eventually recovered and adjusted to this misfortune he always walked thereafter with a pronounced limp. Several years after this incident he had the further bad luck to be involved in a cycling accident and this time he lost four toes from his right foot. Once again with the aide of professional help and prosthetics he was able to adjust. Although he made physical adjustment he could never let go or refrain from telling of these two incidents on every possible occasion. In my mind it became his key to acceptance and seemed to be his way of gaining some sympathy for his hard done by life. I became aware and felt quite ashamed of my lack of empathy and was alarmed at just how irritated I could become whenever around him. I determined that I should seek help of my own... to discover why I felt irritated so irrationally. I consulted with my GP and explained the circumstance in detail. I related how over the years the more I witnessed his actions and attitude the less restrained I could be in his presence. I would become both agitated and borderline aggressive when he would enter the room. My GP listened and after brief pause to ponder upon the story I related to him he reassured me that my reactions were quite normal and were not as uncommon as I thought them to be. I asked him if it were a defined medical condition and did I have need for concern. He replied.... "you are quite simply lack toes intolerant"
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She is My cream nicotine The Surging through our blues The fluidity of divinity Juxtapose Whoever said love was easy… Yeah 'Ol Chap, they Sure had it right, Because no man or lady can ever Subtract Once their hue has mixed it can never go back. 2 Whipped Cream and Other Delights. And why would you? The dregs are bitter, The milk too sweet. If you water it down then All flavor retreats Life is just better off Bitter-Sweet, Cream never asks coffee On how it should mix Why do we attempt these liquid alchemy tricks? The intrusion is dilution of the Makers choice Through imperfection comes the lesson Learned perception with each sip The air red dried truth The Words stuck to the lips Tasters Digest the last drink drips Yet I question why I am so subject to infusion Her meaningful quips Why we attempt these liquid alchemy tricks? Still I question why I am so subject to the infusion of Her Dips Sometimes I call it Love Sometimes I call it Quits For You My Dear Let's Cheers Another Grip of Seared Buds and Belly Aches and Lactose Licorice So Pour Another! while the Argument still in Air and While Dilutions of gratification Grind into Frothy Despair
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May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015 at 8:13 PM UTC
Cream Nicotine
There is a stillness that lies beyond the tallest trees; beyond the quiet nesting of daylight summer birds Halfheartedly I am reluctant to close my weary eyes, to miss this beautiful cool refreshing bliss of serenity once more bound in endless flow How contemptuous a nightly lull that breaks the sun's disquietness of the day, renders day into night, and twilight shadows that playfully scorn our daytime senses We are all rocked in the cradle of mother night she sings her veiled and peaceful insightful sound I suckle like so many others on her breast of cool refreshing peace I absorb her calming black-night-lactose that gently whispers to sleep the energetic day child within us all As cool water consumes fire As night consumes the heated day I think beyond the stars that now shine the past starry nights I think about trillions upon trillions of stars overwhelmed by the black empty outer limits that encircle and distantly embrace them I think about the greater part of the universe, making ours and all other daylight galaxies appear but like so much dull insignificant fluorescent glow And because how mind boggling, awesome and vast is the eternal cosmic night sky And how belligerent to think all galaxies' day-suns like our Sun, being the all powerful when they are but only minuscule stars winking and swimming passively in the greater awesome devouring blackness LOOK NOW!...a comet streaks across the heavens like a rapid musicians hypnotic metronome then stops then fades away while the rest of the heavens sing along in blinking symphony   Influenced by my most inner ease my total being joins this starry rhythm I sway like a calm breezy lull and half shuffle my feet over the midnight countryside of stillness... ... ever sooooo...gently
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Sep 28, 2014
Sep 28, 2014 at 12:22 PM UTC
A Country Mother Night Tale
There is a stillness that lies beyond the tallest trees; beyond the quiet nesting of daylight summer birds Halfheartedly I am reluctant to close my weary eyes, to miss this beautiful cool refreshing bliss of serenity once more bound in endless flow How contemptuous a nightly lull that breaks the sun's disquietness of the day, renders day into night, and twilight shadows that playfully scorn our daytime senses We are all rocked in the cradle of mother night she sings her veiled and peaceful insightful sound I suckle like so many others on her breast of cool refreshing peace I absorb her calming black-night-lactose that gently whispers to sleep the energetic day child within us all As cool water consumes fire As night consumes the heated day I think beyond the stars that now shine the past starry nights I think about trillions upon trillions of stars overwhelmed by the black empty outer limits that encircle and distantly embrace them I think about the greater part of the universe, making ours and all other daylight galaxies appear but like so much dull insignificant fluorescent glow And because how mind boggling, awesome and vast is the eternal cosmic night sky And how belligerent to think all galaxies' day-suns like our Sun, being the all powerful when they are but only minuscule stars winking and swimming passively in the greater awesome devouring blackness LOOK NOW!...a comet streaks across the heavens like a rapid musicians hypnotic metronome then stops then fades away while the rest of the heavens sing along in blinking symphony   Influenced by my most inner ease my total being joins this starry rhythm I sway like a calm breezy lull and half shuffle my feet over the midnight countryside of stillness... ... ever sooooo...gently
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