Category: Ethics
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Anne – Part 16 – My Tech-writing Job Ends
My Tech-writing Job Ends Shortly after my return from Grammy’s funeral, they started laying off people at work. It became evident that my days were numbered, too. So, I offered to resign if they would continue to use me as a contractor. There were still a couple of manuals that needed to be done. I…
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Anne – Part 15 – Grammy Dies – 1993
Anne – Part 15 – Grammy Dies 1993 About a year into my adventure in technical writing, my maternal grandmother died. She was 98. She had fallen and broken a hip. She had a hip replacement. I was told that she came out of the surgery fine. but after a few days in recovery, quit…
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Affirmations / Aspirations
Affirmations/Aspirations I amWe areLoveCompassionThankful I amWe areThe VoidThe TaoThe Source I amWe areThe quantum fieldThe unified fieldThe universe A wave ofUniverse energyA point of viewLooking at myselfThe universe As I recedes New wavesCome forth newIndividual pointsTo view the ONE –LE
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Anne – Part 12 – Full-time College
Full-time at Hiram College I started going to Hiram on the weekends prior to being sent to Chicago. Eaton was paying my tuition as long as I passed my courses. Of course, after they fired me, that stopped. So, I took my unemployment and what savings I had and started going to school at Hiram…
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Secret Dreams
Secret Dreams I had secret dreams But Called four-eyes and sissyI held the dreams insideI couldn’t let theName-callers see I’d rather play with wordsThan fight all dayWatching and laughingDancing and singing Careening and preeningOn the snowy plainsOf my journal –LE
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Seeking Its Level
Seeking Its Level As a stream windes downLooking for the seaSo life seeks outIts own conclave-ity Parallels between life and waterAre ancient and universalThey both seek their levelThey both reach for their source Existance cycles from sourceTo level to source – water is lifeNo water – we’re extinct – beliefeSystems – indulged irrelavance –LE
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Anne – Part 10 – Problems In Paradise
Problems in Paradise Some troubling incidents started to present themselves early in the marriage. Anne wanted to handle our finances, and that was fine with me. So, we had joint checking and savings accounts. We both put our paychecks into the checking account and had 10% moved to the savings account monthly. The problems started…
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Manly BS
Manly BS I’m a manThat I amThe morning’s chillBut I don’t care See, my chest is bare‘Cause I’m a manWhen I catch that chillAs I surely will I won’t cryAs I die‘Caue I’m a manUnderstand? To prove myselfI’ll play the gameBear the pain ’causeI’m a man Bull Shit! –LE
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The Sound of Silence
The Sound of SilencePaul Simon Hello darkness my old friendI’ve come to talk with you againBecause a vision softly creepingLeft its seeds while I was sleepingAnd the vision that was planted in my brainStill remainsWithin the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked aloneNarrow streets of cobblestone‘Neath the halo of a street lampI turned…
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Premature Death
Spirit vs Form – A Poor Life vs No Life 11/1/83This poem fits into the timeline of the memoir around this point. Chris (my brother) told me of our tragedy last night, the death of my sister Becky’s baby, only 2 hrs old. Time for another reassessment of my views on life, death, and the…
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