dear world, this is adam.
give him the same love that you've given shaina, karl and i.
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the first post is either a) the most profound or b) the one that makes you roll you're eyes, shun me, and cancel my membership.
so hopefully i fall somewhere in between.
i'm the odd man out, in this group. if we were sitting around a campfire i would be the quiet guy, poking the fire with sticks. i grew up far away, beside the quiet waters of nanaimo- where the ocean is always kept calm by surrounding islands, holding back the waves.
i spent 21 years there, and it wasn't until i left, and came back, that i finally went to the top of a downtown apartment building to watch the fireworks, lights colliding with the rippling tides, flashing the ordinary people as they cheered and hooted. hmm. and to think i used to be among of those people, huddled together on the rocks of swylana lagoon in a mass of faces. next time i watch fireworks, i will be. i think that community is watching fireworks with the mass of ordinary people, rather than looking down on it.
funny story, that was the topic of my first (decent) blog ever, back when i lived a block away from the water and wrote on myspace. i've come a long way since last summer.
so now i live in abbotsford... where the air is thin. and chilly. ask me again, in twenty years, what is beautiful about this town, and i will probably have a better answer. all i can come up with is the colors of the leaves scattered on the ground, in the fall... and the trees outside my backdeck thickening enough to cover the air between my townhouse and the road, always busy with the sighs of passing cars. oh yeah, i met jamison here, as well. my first impression of him is material for another day.
thats me. well... thats kind of me. thats where i came from. lets sit around a campfire, have coffee and discuss me later... no, lets talk about 90s music instead. third eye blind, matchbox 20, lifehouse, collective soul...
i like this idea
-adam
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dear shaina and karl.
this is adam. he is a poet. enjoy!
love,
he-man.
nice to meet you adam! you fit right in; you can come to the campfire inside our little house, and when i see you silently poking away, i will sneak over and sit beside you and ask you questions you never thought you'd hear someone actually ask another person. (and all the while, my homemade 90s mix cds will be on shuffle in the background and every so often one of us will go "oooh yeah!" and laugh about a song we forgot about and can't believe we forgot about)
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