REQUIEM

crates | November 30, 2008

          It seems to me that most people make friends very easily.  I do not.  It is not that I don’t feel the need for friends or that I am not open to friendship, but it seems that there are few people with whom I “click” with to the extent that I can grow close [...]

Building Fences

crates | November 15, 2008

Do you divide your life up into compartments?  Do you have one compartment for home, another for work, perhaps others for different aspects of y our life?  Occasionally I will hear someone referred to as a person who partitions his life.  It is usually spoken of as something that is undesirable.  They said that about [...]

Do We Really Want to Know?

crates | November 13, 2008

I was watching two small children with their father at the coffee shop this morning.  The tiny little girl reminded me of my daughter when she was small.  When the father left he had the little girl on his arm and led the little boy by the hand.
I began remembering when my daughter was that [...]

Rain, Rain…Rain…

crates | November 8, 2008

          This morning as I walked to the beach on a leaf-covered road that wound through a dripping forest, the normally quiet little stream that paralleled my path shouted as it leaped down the hillside.  It had been raining steadily for about thirty hours, but this morning the rain had let up, although as I walked [...]

"Miscellaneous Information"

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crates

Just an ordinary guy who loves: everything biological, photography, science fiction (SF), books, new ideas, interesting people, life in all its aspects. Ok, you can wake up now...