Tag: words

• Money-Making Schemes and Metaphors – Thoughts from January 29 and 31, 2023

  

  January 29, 2023 I just want to start this Thoughts paper by telling you, the reader, how much I appreciate what you do. I don’t know what you do beyond reading these words, but I appreciate what you’re doing right now. There are many words you could be looking at and you chose mine. It…

  Brian Kirwan

  March 28, 2024

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  2023, 8 millimeter films, a quarter for grocery cart, Aldi, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Brian, Brian’s space movies, digitizing VHS home videos, Disney World, donuts, drinking in Vegas, exaggerating for comic effect, gas station, getting along with my sister, grocery shopping, I don’t lie, I don’t like poetry, I look like a Brian, metaphors, money-making scheme, my sister, my weirdness, news is useless, news on the screen at the pump, not a unique name, nothing is exactly like something else, one version of my name, parking lot, Patti, perfection doesn’t exist, reading, recent death on the news, Star Wars figures, stop motion films, the reader, thoughts, Thoughts paper, vacations, vacations are not good for my health, Vegas, video commentary, words, writing

• Sugar Makes Me Fat – Thoughts from July 23, 2022

  

  Today I feel fat. I’ve felt fat because my scale said I was fat. My stomach feels like someone attached a sandbag to the inside of my skin. All of this fat shaming is to say that I need to change my routine on my days off. I’ve said this before and here I am…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 14, 2023

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• Morning Routines – Thoughts from July 14 and 16, 2022

  

  July 14, 2022 Patti was having me put in for time off for her birthday in September and she had me going back to work the day after we drive back from Vegas. She does this often. She tells me what days to take off, but doesn’t add a day at the end for me…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 7, 2023

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  2022, aches and pains, addicted, avoiding change, birthday, bloody medical procedures, bodily functions, brushing teeth, bugs crawling, changes, crazy, declining health, eating breakfast, emergency routine, encouraging unhealthy behavior, experimentation, fearing change, grammar checker, handicap, harmful habits, health problems, I must write things down, irregular happenings, itchy, large people, Las Vegas, last minute change, morning routine, obese, Off the Rails of the Crazy Train, Ozzy Osbourne, Patti, people ignoring their health, popping a pimple, realities, relaxation, routine, she told me, shortest morning routine, showering, squeamish, stretching, sugar, surgeries, taking problems seriously, thoughts, unhealthy behaviors, vacation days, vegan meals, Vegas, weight problems, wiping, words, work, zits

• Stressed Smile – Thoughts from March 28 and April 1, 2022

  

  March 28, 2022 I’ve been working on adding exercises and examples to my book. It has added about ten thousand words to it. I look forward to the day when I will have to explain what book I’m working on, but I only have the one right now. I would love to have time to…

  Brian Kirwan

  September 19, 2023

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• Thoughts from August 14, 2001

  

  And these things I say will be self-evident. If that were true, then my words really could hurt me. Words are powerful, words are great, words can heal, and birds can hate. And now sentences that make sense: My mom always told me not to say “hate.” You don’t hate a person you dislike them.…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 23, 2023

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