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Category Archives: NC
The Dance of Life, the Dance of Love—and those Ups and Downs.
My childhood playground? Funny you should ask. My father owned an eleven-story office tower in Raleigh, NC. Naturally, it had elevators, and the elevators were hands down my very favorite things in that building. In the early 1960s the old … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, City Center, Loneliness, Love, Manhattan, NC, New York, Raleigh, Uncategorized
Tagged Allan Sherman, childhood, elevators, faith, glass, history, humanity, life, love, New York City, Otis Elevators, poetry, relationships, secret places, security, technology, Unchained Melody, women
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I am a godless drifter sailing on the winds of a desperate sea.
This morning brought me memories of my first car, a 1973 Fiat 124 Sport Spider. I had to start writing immediately, because that car…well, I’ll simply say that without that car, I’d have been utterly miserable.
Posted in Automobilia, City Center, Friends, Humor, Italy, Loneliness, Love, NC, Raleigh, Uncategorized
Tagged Aurelio Lampredi, beauty, Bicycles, cameras, cars, children, Colosseum, Depression, Despair, dreams, faith, Ferrari, Fiat Spider, Forum Romanum, Happiness, humanity, Italian cars, Italy, knowledge, life, love, Memories, Miami Beach, Nikon, photography, relationships, Rome, Schwinn, sexuality, spirituality, Transcendental Meditation, transportation, UNC, uncertainty, worry
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For Ian
He went handsomely well with quiet times,
Posted in Friends, Loneliness, Love, NC, Raleigh
Tagged friendship, loneliness, love, NC, Raleigh
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For Georgia
Unlike so many,
Speed, Control, and Happiness
Even after I started to work in my father’s real estate business, he and I meshed well only on our fondness for automobiles; outside of that, our gears frequently clashed. This was so, I think, because he had two … Continue reading
Posted in Automobilia, Family, Humor, Iowa, Loneliness, Love, NC, Raleigh
Tagged beauty, cars, desperation, Fatherhood, frustration, growth, humanity, life, love, manhood, Men, the heart
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I write these words because of you.
I write these words because of you.
Posted in Friends, Loneliness, Love, NC, Raleigh, Uncategorized
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A short stop in downtown Des Moines
Downtown Des Moines: Re-scraping my Childhood Skies By Russ Wollman When I was young, I enjoyed a certain distinction among my peers which had nothing to do with me and everything to do with my father’s ownership of an 11-story … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, City Center, Family, Humor, Iowa, NC, Work
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Infinite Space. InfiniteTime. 