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I Still Write With Pencils

I still write with pencils-- and have learned not to erase; just to lightly cross-out, saving my edits for another frame of mind. Life is not only forward but sometimes back... like old friends and people who helped me to the next rung on my ladder. My first love.

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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton

Date: 4/12/2018 2:32:00 AM

I break pencils and tear holes in the paper ...but I get your drift.

Joe Dimino
Date: 4/12/2018 7:27:00 AM

Pencils are made to be broken. As for the holes in the paper...well...just your take on recycling: thank you, Leanne, for all your great comments today. You really made my day!

Reason A. Poteet

Date: 4/11/2018 7:02:00 AM

Interesting thought, Joe, how often I've wished I could go back and find something I remember writing; but I wad them up and pitch them or press delete on the computer. Enjoyable read.

Joe Dimino
Date: 4/11/2018 7:21:00 AM

Thank you, Reason; I think it has to do with expanding one's concept of time and space. Not trying to suggest that I am there by no means. In Outer Space there is no up/down, forward/back (all relative)--on earth we think in terms of either or...when in a greater experience it can be both at same time.