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thought you should know that i too am thinking about you.
scott

----- Original Message -----
From: Jenelle Anderson
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:01:18 -0700 (PDT)
To: Scott Graham
Subject: miss you

just thought you should know that i'm thinking about you.
jenelle

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I wrote it on a napkin – I said I wanted to be part of a secret society. I said it like 6 fucking months ago. “Like the Stonecutters” yeah, like the fucking Masons and Skulls. We’ll be executing a will in 80, no 60, years, and you’ll say, “Do you still have the watch?” and we’ll all be like “Fuck yeah,” I still have it and raise our arms up and say “What the fuck, hell yeah!” We’re in. I wrote it on a napkin and slipped it in a new book I lent to a friend who turned out not to be. She still has my book.

S*
2004.05.28

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2004.05.02 12:21 KST (EST + 13 hrs): Seoul, Republic of Korea

Sunday morning reflections of the night gone by...

Swirling times. The endless pursuit of something vague, ethereal, incomplete, but ours to hold when the songsmith says it's time. Night air carressed the party-goers and the stars kissed their every cheek. Twenty-seven crucifixes in the distance, the post-coital sky danced a delicate array of red and pale shadows hidden behind walls of lovers kissing unshaven faces, torsos, thighs and necks. A comforting stroke. Roasting bounty, sipping, inhaling the goodness of the darkness, we laughed and dropped chopsticks onto glass jars filled with the memories of all good times come to have gone. And our bellies hurt not from the long hours of excess, but the unstoppable standing, unretractable magic contractions of our collective abdomen. Lick the syrup from the world. Tap into the goodness that puts you over the edge. Give it a hug and hold it's hand down a sandy beach, rolling green mountain-side while ocean waves roll towards you like destinations unknown.

From here to there,

S*

Fave current album(s): "The Grey Album" - DJ Danger Mouse
Current read(s) in progress: "A Scientific Romance" - Ronald Wright, words

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[To a special friend on her 25th]

There's a time in our lives when a distant social clock starts ticking and althought we realize that we may not be as timeless or invincible as we thought, we nonetheless have the gust to sail many an ocean yet. Twenty-five is one of those points: we're not old, per se, but the sum of our experiences has made us strong, determined, spherical individuals. And we come to the actualisation that it's quite nice to be well-rounded, well-grounded and occasionally astounded by the world and the poeple with which and whom we've inadvertantly surrounded ourselves.

Life reflects nicely that way and it takes the quietude of monumental milestones to allow us perspective enough to step back, relax and smile at the stretch of curves and corduroy road behind us, knowing that the next jaunt could be full of lilts or clear and smooth as an unmuddied lake. As long as we keep in mind that we are the raindrops and not the ripples, warm waters actually become a pretty good place to be.

Twenty-five is a time to reflect, to laugh, to grin and to give thanks for the footprints we've left, smiling, open-eyed at the virgin beach ahead. Take it by the reigns, stare into the sunshine and know, Jenelle, that you have good friends, a beautiful family, a vault of treasure in your heart and that people love you in the purest sense.

I wish you all the best at the junction of life's quarter-marker. Stay well, because like that old adage aptly reminds: all's well that ends well.

With hugs and love, yours,

Scott
2004.05.10