Category Archives: developing relationships

Thinking About How We Think Others Think About Us

Posted on June 1, 2010 by randomyriad

“Although your idea of what someone else thinks of you is only paranoic, unreal, and illusionary, it is part of your relationship with the person, as much a part of it as the actuality of the person’s real thoughts” Jack … Continue reading →

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Back to Work Blahs

Posted on April 11, 2010 by randomyriad

I am just finishing my spring break week off, and I feel very ambivalent about what I have spent my time doing and going back to my routine of having the middle of my day absorbed by work. I like … Continue reading →

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Here I Am Again Wondering How I Got Here

Posted on April 10, 2010 by randomyriad

My memory is so mysterious and unreliable, shifty, that I have to set up landmarks in my own history to tie it down, but stable points are hard to find, the births of my children, the day Mary and I … Continue reading →

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You Can Still Cross the Water After the Bridge Burns.

Posted on March 30, 2010 by randomyriad

After I read this post at Russian Ramblings. I started thinking about a few friendships I have walked away from because of  some harsh words or some spiky, defensive behavior, or the times when I chased some friends away when … Continue reading →

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My Movie Friend, Kurosawa and Star Wars

Posted on January 12, 2010 by randomyriad

Watching Movies with a Friend As I was watching Kurosawa’s “The Hidden Fortress” a few days ago, I was thinking how much my friend Pat would have enjoyed the two greedy, disloyal, and weak peasants that are the central characters. … Continue reading →

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