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February 08, 2007
extremities
While I was driving home from work this evening I stopped at a gas station to fill up my car. I really like pumping gas.
I also really liked standing outside by the pump in the 5 degree air. Painful and inane as it sounds to be in the cold doing something as simple as putting gasoline into a car, I realize that I have a strange affinity for the extreme and a predisposition to enjoy the mundane. I feel my feelings pretty dang intensely and I like to feel the weather intensely against my skin. There's something lifegiving about extremities.
But I also love the mundane rhythms of my life like washing dishes and getting dressed and preparing my breakfast. Those are the moments of my life. I choose to enjoy them.
Here's a photo of me and my team in China at the Harbin ice festival last year. I found it on my friend Katie's facebook account tonight. It must have been negative 5 or 10 degrees in this outdoor freezer ice wonderland. Pretty dang intense.
I miss the coexisting circumstances of living in an apartment building filled with my friends and co-workers. Close community is sweetness to my soul.
| By Brae | 09:36 AM
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U r really pretty ur talks r really pretty..............................i like it gal.when i 1st read ur blog then i can't leave it untill finishing.....hmm wht abt coming to Pakistan as my guest.......Ahsan---> Pakistan.
Posted by: ahsan at February 13, 2007 11:28 AM
i want to see this one BIG!
Posted by: sienna at February 9, 2007 12:23 PM
Interesting that in China, under coexist is written the same thing in Russian!
Posted by: Jeanne Peipon at February 8, 2007 03:53 PM