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My first example of a fabulous conversation overheard: Fifty-something man with dark brown skin, battered dark blue ski jacket with a faded orange logo on the back, dark watch cap, and way too many other clothes for a sunny June day. He was riding an aged light blue three-speed bike down the sidewalk on Boylston Street, [...] Perhaps I’ll write a poem or short story each week, using only words, phrases, and stories I overhear that week. In the past few weeks I overheard two separate conversations (with different actors) about the recently served prison time of one of the interlocutors. I wish I’d written them down because each was chilling and funny [...] I recently discovered I have a great-uncle and great-aunt I never knew about. When they were young children my great-grandparents left then in the old country and immigrated to the U.S. The little girl grew up and eventually moved here. No one seems to know what happened to the little boy–where he lived and with [...] My quest will be to find and meet as many Manyas in the world as I can and document the experiences. All the non-me Manyas I know of are dead, but that won’t stop me from finding out about them. Marie (aka Manya) Curie, whose museum I can visit. Hmm…I [...] Perhaps my quest will be to learn all sorts of things in the place where each is famous or best known: Spanish in Madrid This could be really fun! Round trip airfare Boston to Paris: $1,500 Leasing a Peugeot 207 for 5 months: $4,882 Chocolate eclair for the road: €4 Les Plus Beaux Villages de France: 151 Visiting each and every one of them: priceless An Idaho woman has just set out to run 50 miles in all 50 states. If you’ve ever seen my try to run, you can imagine how not at all disappointed I am that she took this idea before I could get to it. Oh, and it’s a fundraiser. You go girl! May 3rd, 2010 | Category: Metablogging | Leave a comment
Perhaps my quest should be to train to become a licorice connoisseur. It occurs to me there would be a lot to document for something like that. First on the list would be to find out if there actually is such a thing. If so, then I’d track these folks down and pepper them with [...] You know, I’ve always wanted to drive across the country. Don’t know why…it’s a really long drive. I could take the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway–it doesn’t actually exist in whole anymore, but there are markers still out there, mostly in the south. I know it for a fact. I saw one in, well, either Tennessee or [...] To get me to France (a goal always in the back of my mind) I could visit all the start and finish towns for the Tour de France–for the past 97 years! Or for the tours during my lifetime. Or for those in this millennium. Something like that. Something that would get me to see [...] |
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