Author Archives: Travis


Caught On The Subway

July 7, 2008 – 9:36 am

I am visiting New York city for the mostly annual visit to my wife’s family. We are having a grand time. I love this town! As we were headed to Chinatown from the Upper East side o the subway, I was approached by one Garth Wolkoff. Garth is an English teacher […]

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Just Another Day

June 27, 2008 – 9:14 pm

Walking to my local pub for dinner, down my street the other evening. Looking at the total beauty of things as they are; the street, the curb, the buildings, the pan-handlers, the tourists, the sky, the light. It occurred to me that none of this, nothing at all, nothing that has happened, was happening, or […]

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Quote: Douglas Harding

June 13, 2008 – 11:43 am

Refusing To Separate My Consciousness From Yours
Truly it is one of the unforeseen pleasures of the 1st-Person life to gaze unabashed into the faces of one’s friends, without feeling or thinking anything in particular, and just see them for what they always were - things for looking at and never for looking out of. This […]

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A Day That Changed My Life

June 10, 2008 – 11:03 pm

When I was about twelve, my Mother had a boyfriend.  He was a skinny little guy with the worst luck with animals.  He had been attacked by Pit Bulls and Dobermans, and German Shepards (please note all the plurals, they are not exaggerated.)  He had two metal ribs because a horse he was feeding a […]

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The Only Goal That Matters

June 6, 2008 – 11:44 am

“To say ‘I love you’ one must know first how to say the ‘I’.”
~ Ayn Rand, 20th century philosopher from The Fountainhead

Everything we do in life is built upon one foundation. Every thought, every action, every experience, every story comes down to one seed. That seed is “I.” Everything in existence, that […]

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