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Have you seen the trailer for the movie World Trade Center. Looks like it's going to be heavy. It doesn't help that the trailer includes the Coldplay song Fix You. Ugh. Talk about tearing at the heartstrings...
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My parents are in town this weekend. So we asked our night nurse to come a bit early so that Laura and I could get out. Nurse would hang with Ira and the parents would hang with Sophia.

So Laura and I headed out. We got on the A train. A couple of stops later this guy gets on. I lean over to Laura and say, "I know that guy but I'm not sure where I know him from."

Laura goes through the list: Church? No. Basketball league? No. The gym? No. Your office building? No.

I think about it. Then I figure it out.

That's. Steve. Nash.
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Do you like the new banner? After reading Laura's post, my friend Jason thought it an appropriate banner. I'll keep it up for a couple of months because it's a good reminder of a simple action that has the possibility of making a huge difference. Check out the link to the left - on my sidebar. It will give you more info on how you can become an agent of global change. Who turns down the possibility of wearing the title Agent of Global Change?
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Coming to NYC for a trip any time soon? Don't forget to come out to Brooklyn. Sure, come to see us but also because Brooklyn is fast becoming a destination unto itself.
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I'm reading A Long Way Down. It's about four people who decide to commit suicide. They just happen to decide to do it on New Year's Eve. They just happen to decide to jump off the same building. And so they meet each other on top of a building. They decide not to jump. One of the characters, Maureen, is a single mother of a chronically ill child named Matty. Matty is a "vegetable". Maureen has cared for him over 18 years.

Midway through the book, Maureen is trying to explain why she gets sad music; why she understands it. While listening to the depressing music, she says,

This is how I feel, every day, and people don't want to know that. They want to know that I'm feeling what Tom Jones makes you feel. Or that Australian girl who used to be in Neighbors. But I feel like this, and they won't play what I feel on the radio, because people that are sad don't fit in.

It's funny, because people think it's Matty that stops me fitting in. But Matty's not so bad. Hard work, but...it's the way Matty makes me feel that stops me fitting in. You get the weight of everything wrong. You have to guess all the time whether things are heavy or light, especially the things inside you, and you get it wrong, and it puts people off. I'm tired of it.

They, the three others who were going to commit suicide that night, decide to take Maureen on a beach vacation. Maureen's thoughts:

I wanted to tell Jess that I hadn't even seen an English beach since Matty left school...I didn't say anything, though. I may not know the weight of many things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible.

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