04.26.08

my abilities to live are undoing themselves as i get older. as metonym: the final days of last semester saw me living in front of a computer screen, reading as i typed, producing 80-some pages over those three weeks and forgetting to eat, sleep. i told myself the next few months would be different. i [...]

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mid-knight confession

here the tired begins once more. once more because to speak of beginnings after entrance into past present, present present, future present is itself an echo (and) loaded with nostalgia.
last push to the end. a first push, ironically, to an end. am looking forward to writing (some of) these essays.
and then summer. work, outside / [...]

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04.06.08

me: the headlights on the car actually flicker, they go on and off arbitrarily
brent: they say that faith is like the headlights you see by
me: so what’re you trying to say
brent: that your faith is like flickering headlights
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while referencing the hadith in which the prophet^s clarifies that ‘trusting in god’ (poor translation of tawakkul) means [...]

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