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Being on Maui and remembering my life here with my mom has really reminded me of the many lives that I’ve had here. Its sort of like a capsule, separated from the rest of the world, where very little changes and memories linger forever. I thought I’d post some old videos I scavenged from my [...]
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I touched down in Maui today for the first time in months. Today is the first day I have stepped foot on Maui knowing that I won’t see my mom’s bright face welcoming me back home. After all…where is my home now? The easy answer would be San Francisco. My girlfriend Chanterelle and I do [...]
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My to-do list is full and I’m behind. Failure. My days are free of time-consuming activities or a job, and I still haven’t done the homework for my online class. Failure. Everyone says I have potential, I’m brilliant, but I can’t even manage some of the most simple to-do’s on my list. Failure. As soon [...]
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I’m sitting at the Oakland airport waiting for my flight to Maui. I’m heading back to “the rock” to deal with the little amount of “stuff” that doesn’t fit in my backpack. I’m heading back to see my girlfriend. Heading back to finalize a long-standing relationship with Maui. A year ago, I was halfway accross [...]
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You’ve just been diagnosed with a terminal illness. You have 5 months to live. What do you do? If you’re like me when I am ask that question in school, workshops, or rhetorically like on blog posts like this one, you would plan on living life to the fullest. On fullfilling your dreams. On climbing [...]
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They asked me today whether I would want to move to my godsister’s house. A house where my mother’s cries could not be heard. I told them no. Good god no. How could I leave my mother when she never left me? She never once faltered in her mothering. She never failed to show up. [...]
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I’m hiding out right now in my room. Well…the room I’m staying in. Its actually my godmother’s office with a bed placed oddly opposite her desk. Through the partly-open door I can hear the cries of children in the kitchen. My wonderful sweet godnieces. They are the perfect kind of children. They are smart enough [...]
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This story is amazing to me because the details have stuck with me for so many years. It has stuck with me because it makes up so much of who I am now. When I was about 10, I had a “friend” who we will call Mika. He was a friend, now that I think [...]
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Growing up an only child, my wonderful supportive parents always told me how special I was. My father would tell me how unique I was. How much better I was than other people. How proud he was to have a son who was “drug free”. He told me how great I was because I “thought [...]
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I feel like blech. My mother has cancer, and she’s losing her mind before my eyes. She forgets things, and hallucinates events and voices. She is in so much pain. Her voice is hoarse because of the lung-cancer affecting her breathing. It makes me want to cry. Tonight we talked about her will, the distribution [...]
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