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Dawn brings a tide of traffic.
The rushing roar rises and falls
with a manic pace. Inside,
i breathe in and out,
with ease,
and your head is
resting on my heart.

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Autumn equinox is yet a few days off, but i have the autumn blend in the pot. (Plus oolong: i'm trying to drink through the bags and tins of accumulated oolong.)

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Today i am supposed to consider Friends & Family. I wonder if i should ship something to my father's freedom (aka retirement) party. Nothing comes to mind. Contacting family.... Here's a question: do i want to make simple little Halloween cards from a repurposed book and some blank cards i have and send them off to to my long-time corresponding friends (with whom i rarely correspond, anymore). I don't know what i'd say. But making the simple cards seems like an good creative thing! [Review birthdays approaching] And there are birthdays to post off.

What do i want say to friends on their birthday, whom i've not corresponded with in a while?

Meanwhile, i think i will ignore, as usual, my girl cousin's daughter's birthdays. I've heard nothing from my girl cousin over the decade and wonder if, there is residue of Christine and I coming out acting as a barrier there.

Food for thought: More on "faking it."

In "Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance", Cuddy shows that simply holding one's body in expansive, "high-power" poses for as little as two minutes stimulates higher levels of testosterone (the hormone linked to power and dominance in the animal and human worlds) and lower levels of cortisol (the "stress" hormone that can, over time, cause impaired immune functioning, hypertension, and memory loss).

... Subjects in the high-power group were manipulated into two expansive poses for one minute each: first, the classic feet on desk, hands behind head; then, standing and leaning on one's hands over a desk. ... "The poses that we used in the experiment are strongly associated across the animal kingdom with high and low dominance for very straightforward evolutionary reasons. Either you want to be big because you're in charge, or you want to close in and hide your vital organs because you're not in charge. ..."

-- http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6461.html


I ponder the willingness to "play the primate game" as a survival technique and the justice and fairness that we really want.