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nemo nisi amicitiam cogniscitur

i found out today that one of my great friends from work is leaving the country, heading south to brazil for a few months. he leaves in a few days. this is after another of my friends traversed to new york for a while, and before that, another to kazakhstan for a year.

there are so many new faces that sometimes i can't keep up, but it's the nature of the beast, i guess, to find that once you're comfortable, you realize you really can't be.

sigh. he'll be missed.

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my most recent adventure with g-glo was sf pride 2006, which was full of great debauchery and free swag. i met some of her friends -- it was a weird kind of vibe since we were on such the same wavelengths. gives me a better sense of who gina really likes to hang out with.

did i mention that we saw twelve naked people? on top of the drag queens, shirtless bois and boobs just hanging out (not to mention the one guy who was in a horse costume), the place as crackling with an energy i hadn't seen before at pride. it was huge; it occupied not only civic center but about six surrounding blocks. and within these blocks, did i mention the nakedness?

i signed up to volunteer as a dog walker, petitioned for equal human rights and marriage equality, and watched a great gathering of people celebrate love for what it is: blind, unconditional, and happy.

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one of the best feelings is when one of your friends calls you up from nowhere and asks how you've been doing lately.

it makes me smile that i can do that to someone else.

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placing yourself in different contexts effectively makes you, it forces you, really, to adapt. however uncomfortable or unsure, in the end, you end up mostly unscathed.

whether in the context of a workplace or with friends, in a relationship or by yourself, or in any other smattering of time and space that one may consider, adaptability is the forte of the human spirit. you adapt to change by coping, by denying, by abusing, by being curious and by being stubborn. adapting is getting to know your environments, your people. adapting is eventually finding what it is you like doing and specializing. adapting, to be concise, is living.

whatever it is life throws at you, you adapt. it's that simple.

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simple pleasures for simple people: walking down the street after a long day at work, feeling a cool breeze and enjoying some crispy potato puffs and a sparkling orange beverage, watching the sun paint the town marvelous colors.

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in the shower today i was singing, and it made me feel good.

not many things have that ability, that innate capacity to make you feel better by virtue of their happening. singing made me miss singing. sleep makes me realize just how important it really is. and the joy, the pleasure i have in the simple act of eating -- there's an ineffable quality in the simple things. simple things are your best friends because they're always there, and they're always going to be there in the same manner.

it's why sometimes you go for the fries and the burger instead of the salad and the whole grains, why chocolate rarely has bad memories, why seeing bubbles make you smile.

that ineffable simplicity is wonderfully intangible and ephemeral.

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i wish i had a friend like charlie rose. imagine the drunk stories he would tell.

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"let's" is such a good word. it's a happy word. it's a word that allows, that portends something that people can do together.

"let's."

posted by Open Source Food @ 12:24 AM