"This mind of mine, a wild and rampant elephant,
I'll tether to that sturdy post: reflection on the Teaching.
And I shall narrowly stand guard
That it might never slip its bonds and flee."

--The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva

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    Sunday, December 28, 2008
      year end haiku
    Time sweeps me aside
    From the edge I look back in
    I never mattered

    -

    Albino squirrel
    Saw you while eating breakfast
    Is your nickname "ghost?"
    Posted by The Elephant at: 11:22 AM

    Tuesday, December 23, 2008
      song of the week - we own the sky by M83
    Posted by The Elephant at: 11:16 PM

    Wednesday, December 17, 2008
      three years later
    I shouldn't have written her after these three years. She tells me she's engaged to someone who likes science fiction and has gotten her into it despite her best efforts to resist. If only I liked science fiction less it might not sting so bad. She knew what she was doing though. She always was cruelly poetic that way, her emails standalone works of art. Like the time she sent me that random picture of her gazing off into the distance just before she knew we weren't going to speak again. I knew that picture was the end. Now I recognize that I'm one of the final five. I wish I could go back to before the music began playing in my head.
    Posted by The Elephant at: 10:39 PM

    Wednesday, December 03, 2008
      song of the week-brooklyn we go hard-jay z ft santogold
    Posted by The Elephant at: 10:54 PM

    Tuesday, December 02, 2008
     
    The bone above the right tusk has a chronic infection. The loss of structural integrity is witnessed as a blackness that surrounds the infected roots. The mighty crown offered no defense. The two root canals offered only brief respite. Sometimes its like that. The blackness wants what it wants. If I pull the tooth out the hole it will leave will be un-fillable. If I leave it in and pursue a surgical approach the contagion may spread. The darkness has already spread to my mind though. It envelopes my every waking thought.
    Posted by The Elephant at: 10:22 PM