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  • If it ain’t one thing …

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    Normally if I have my pants down and an attractive blond woman says, ‘Wow, that’s huge”! I feel pretty good about things. Shoulders back, head up, pirate smile and a gleam in my eye. Of course, if this woman happens to be a medical professional with a latex glove and only four of five fingers…

  • Hope vs Expectation

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    Obviously there is a difference between hoping for something and expecting it. The hope that this will happen, that someone shows up, that that is real. Hope is what you have when something is possible yet, not actually certain. Hope has room for you to sigh and say, “Damn, that would have been great/nice/amazing”! Expecting…

  • You created it!

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    So, you are an open-minded person. You believe in free speech, social justice, equality and all such things. You are an activist. You are an example to your children too. You have taught them through words and by example that they should not tolerate being stereo-typed, forced to conform to social norms. Never be pigeon…

  • Big Spoon, Little Spoon

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    There is more to ‘sleeping together’ than sex.  There is the literal ‘sleeping’ part. Although is seems rather obvious up front, the fact is, getting sleep with someone else in the same bed is not as easy as it sounds. To really ‘sleep’ with someone is a learned habit. It takes as much practice to…

  • Re-arranging

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    There is something deeply satisfying to me when I take a space and re-arrange everything in it. Even something at basic as flipping the direction of the place – everything to the opposite side. Ready, set, GO! I often think about movies with the mean drill Sargent making his recruits move a pile of rocks…

  • Dear readers –

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    It seems a few of you have gleaned from my mood and musings that a certain level of depression and even desperation are inhabiting me. Seems that a few more of you went so far as to research my earlier posts when I was in a similar state. There, you found the topic of suicide…

  • In the dark

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    It has been at least 32 years since I just sat in a quite dark room and did nothing. Sat still and looked into the darkness. Saw the things in my head as if they were a film projected on the blackness around me. Everywhere I look there is some image I have created in…

  • On being Pathetic

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    pa·thet·ic [puh-thet-ik] – adjective 4. miserably or contemptibly inadequate: There a good many ways that someone could be, act in a way that would earn them the label,  PATHETIC. It’s not so nice a thing be called. Especially from someone you thought actually cared about you. Respected you. Even recklessly believed when they said they…

  • The difference

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    To Paraphrase Gloria Steinem, “I’m not depressed. I’m sad.  “When you’re depressed, nothing has any meaning. When you’re sad, everything does.” Amen to that. I am in the midst of trying out both. I’ve come to recognize the depression cycles. Begin in late January, max out in February and taper off into March. Took me…

  • The Gates of Hell

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    Giancarlo Gori
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    I have been fortunate enough in this life time to visit the Stanford campus, the Rodin garden, and see, touch, experience the Gates of Hell. Over the years since, my belief system has gone through a gyration or two. The location, meaning, implication, existence, grade for, inclusion to Hell has also changed. This morning I…