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Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Mixed and Hybrid Finite Element Methods, Domain Decomposition Methods, Non-conforming Discretization Techniques, Nearly Incompressible Elasticity, Approximation Theory, Subset Selection & Variational Methods in Image Processing.
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Tagged: relationships
night falls down
All I've ever wanted was a warm mouth on a cool night, us wrapped together in fleece and flannel, to feel the unfurling gusts of wind whipping up whisps of hair across our faces. The smell of your lips turn sweet smiles into delectable dishes. Your hand rests on my chest, softening the hurried heartbeat, calming the catastrophe of current events.
I always stepped into the day, downtrodden among the atrocities, reaching out in hopes of one day finding your fingers ready to soothe the ache of destruction. I faced each empty slot of time, relenting to the entropy until you stepped in, ready to remedy the rust that had settled into my bones.
Outside, you lead me to the ground and embrace me as the night falls down around us, splitting at the seams and seeping out a serenade for you and me alone. All the bugs and blades of grass bend toward you to bask in your glow. But your focus stays on me, this fumbling failure fortunate enough to fall into your line of sight. Those eyes pierce through all the pain inside, rejuvenating the well-worn will, springing me up with newfound spirit, safe enough to scream, to laugh, to share these blankets with you. The crickets sing, the air dances, and the light grows dimmer, hazy shades of green and black, plaid and pristine wrists, blue branches leading to your chest and lips and eyes. Your delicate cheek on mine shines against the light of the moon, penetrating through the dark clouds that carry a rain that runs past us.
The hashtags and headlines herald in the horrors of north and south, slicing through my serenity. But with your breath beside me, I find a semblance of stillness. The calm of your caress, the bliss of your heartbeat lets me know I am safe from the world and from myself.
My head winds down, drained of dismay and fueled with a thousand fantasies swirling like so many leaves in the wind. A warm drink and skin and smile. Lips pressing into the flesh of forever. A lifetime encapsulated into a late night with you, my heart a steady drum, my blood a slow stream. Fluid dreams and concrete connections. Pulling me out of a ribcage coma and shielding me from the sun's rays, random bursts of violence, and the gravitational pull of disappointment. It's the clarity of breath, the breadth of belonging, a kiss so pure it hurts as much as it heals.
Let us not linger in the brightness that breaks through the webs of bark and illuminates the trauma of the world. Kiss me until the light leaks out once more, covered in the safety of this dark. Run with me through the black fields before resting again in the shadows. I listen as your heart slows. You wrap your arms around me and I am wiped clean, a blank slate without shame. You invite me to draw closer. I sink into you, close my eyes, and wish for the sun to burn out and bleed black so the stars can burn bright forever.
uninvited skin
"Again I belong to the night
I'm a mess Pull me over
I can't forget her name
Slow me down
It's like you've stolen my soul
So far from heaven now…"
-Issues, Slow Me Down
"I was your prized possession and who was your exorcist?
Thought you was heaven-sent
You left for the hell of it…"
-Banks, Judas
The mind spins at the thought of affection. A desire brought forth those bright blue eyes from behind your fringe. Parting it back and basking in the realization of prayer, God-sent and God-fearing. But mostly fearing your own wants, needs, desires that deviate from the established word. You kept that hidden between kindness and kisses and a fringe of fellowship fell over my own eyes. I wanted to be your back rub. I wanted to taste your laughter. I wanted to get closer to the one who wanted me.
But not that close.
A firm grip on my fledgling innocence, milking it away from me with no choice, no exception, and no time to process the pumping. Building up and blowing out, rinsed in instant regret, falling farther away from the fantasy and crashing into a cascade of concern.
The brain braids together bonds of mutual fondness to detract from this indiscretion, forgetting the words that fell off a cliff, the kisses that cushioned before cutting, the tongue that lied before licking it all up in selfish starvation. Overloaded, overboard, and boring a hole into my chest with your iron-hot hands, singeing all the hair and stealing all the hope from within my heart with your uninvited skin.
A first crush. A last time. A lost signal sped up then jammed in the dark. Mixing chemicals, trusting words, crossing lines, lying in your bed and lying about your intentions. Red lips and nipples and hands, tensed from tugging, a tale tired from being told.
Rise and fall. Rise and fall. Singular in sensation, suffocation, and suffering. Alone in this affliction you thrust upon me.
Carefully selective only to be stolen in sweat and promises of partnership. Three decades dashed as you went down, determined to conquer this basketcase. Cold. Callous. Inconsequential.
An AWOL angel. An MIA messiah. Death waiting above to witness the final climax before climbing down to peel back the chambers of my chest. Thick down your throat, coating you in my trust. A simple spasm of the body. A complex thrashing of the mind. Attempting to reconcile the religion and the regret in the midst of two bodies melding. Had my savior sanctioned this person of faith to flay all my fantasies or was this just a disciple of the devil, deposed in prayer before prying the life from my lips, lungs, and limbs?
No ring, knock, or other notice of entrance. Barged in and banged down my door. Death of dignity followed close behind. A pale horse come to trample my misconceptions of your intentions. Naivety and hope hauled away in the revelation of identity. Ghosted, roasted, and toasted, burned down to the backbone, easily cracked in half under the ramifications of rejection, of need, of confirmation of humanity.
But the only true confirmation was that the devil teases while God taunts. In the face of lethargy and loneliness, when temptation chides chastity, when worship won't wash away desire, when sigils, sermons, and sacrifices can't cut through a calloused brain, we knew we had both failed our father. And that neither one of us were leading by example.
You know, Biblically-speaking.
"Will you ever know that the bitterness and anger
left me long, long ago
Only sadness remains
And it will pass…"
-Sia, You Have Been Loved
Sometimes I feel nothing at all. But when I do feel, I feel deeply.
It might sound odd but I think there is something sweet about quietly aching over someone, whether they stole your heart or broke it. To know that you can come out of the agony to still find a degree of affection.
I could be bitter. I could focus on all the falsehoods I was fed and the eventual foul feelings I felt. But it's comforting to know that despite the hurt, I can manage to bypass the bad feelings and burned bridges to find memories that soothe and suppress the sadness.
To be hurt by someone establishes I ever existed at all. Look, it's right here, marked by all this pain. It makes me feel real.
It was short. But you don't have to know someone very long to leave a mark. I went through a lot of emotions and I definitely felt a lot of anger. Villainizing felt like the only way to make sense of this mess. But that was an emotional place I could never stay in for too long. The anger evaporated but the depression stayed dominant.
But I'm carrying on, mostly because I don't have a choice. And while I used to fixate on all the frustration, I don't think about it quite as much anymore. But when I do, I try to focus on the fun, albeit few, times.
Remembering the cool sheets, the off-brand body wash, the expensive clothing. The smiles and the laughter. Making someone feel good, helping someone forget their troubles for a few hours. Helping me forget my own. The gentle hum of a moan, the labored breathing and soft sucking sounds. The parts that slid together in unison and the jarring surprise of friction. Opening a door I thought was long ago locked.
The mundane and the magnificent. Remembering the skin of another hand, the smoothness of another set of lips, looking into another set of blue eyes and seeing myself in them. Another soul in need. And I want to believe that I did help that soul, if only for a little while.
It was never a Disney movie but that didn't mean it wasn't magical sometimes. There are memories I play back in my mind that feel like surreal scenes. It was never about finding perfection, just possibility. It was good enough to find someone to share their couch and body and life with me, to let me in, to allow me a glimpse of how human beings live and experience, to see the back and forth struggle of desire vs. despair, longing vs. loneliness, education vs. indoctrination.
Stepping back brings clarity. I can see a little better now, although I can't say I understand. I just know I don't want to be bitter. I just want to be better. I still ache, but not necessarily in a bad way.
People cuddle people. Animals cuddle animals. People cuddle animals. I've watched enough cute puppy videos to see the comfort it brings both human and non-human to snuggle up to something else warm and breathing. It's interesting to see that need for safety, security, and stability in another type of creature. When you think about it, you realize that need spans across all cultures, religions, and species.
I know I'm generalizing. Not everyone is affectionate or wants physical interaction and that's okay. I still struggle with whether or not I'm that type of person. I've always liked the idea of touch but in actuality, it makes me uncomfortable. I wonder if it's because I've been starved of touch for all these years and this is my new norm. Maybe I have just romanticized how therapeutic touch can be and maybe I made it more transformational than it really is. Or maybe I'm just naturally distant. Or maybe I'm just selectively affectionate.
But with the emerging popularity of weighted blankets and the undeniable adorableness of otters holding hands, there's something to be said for being close. In the animal kingdom, it's mostly instinct. Survival has a lot to do with it. Safety in numbers. But is it just about the body surviving? That closeness must encourage the head and heart to survive as well. It's not just a physical need but a psychological response. Maybe when these animals get close to another willing creature, it lets them know they are worth surviving.
That instinct must extend to humans as well. I wonder if that's where my desperate need to cuddle comes from. When I was cuddled for the first time earlier this year, I felt special for the first time in my life. And for a man who always feels worthless, it made a difference. I felt I was worthy of touching. I was worthy of getting to know. I was worthy of surviving too.
But now that it's gone, it's also made a big difference. And I wonder if I was wrong about being worthy of survival after all.
It's always been a layer of fat covered by a layer of fabric. People were kept at arm's length to lengthen their stay. No one could ever get inside my brain or beneath my body. I was closed off from the world because I thought it would be easier for everyone. I shrank down so as not to get in the way. But I only ended up diminishing myself.
It's like I've always been shaking hands while wearing gloves. Only feeling the vaguest sense of shape and grip. Basing all my life lessons on what I've learned through leather. I was satisfied enough, knowing that I could come and go with dulled senses, unencumbered, and see others off to continue their journey in the same condition.
And then someone came along and thought it best to slide the glove off my hand. To want to truly touch me. And when it came off, my hand was pale with paper thin skin and nerves still new to the elements. And when we shook hands for the first time, I was overwhelmed by the raw feelings. Like a lightning bolt blasting through me. Tactile information flooded my system, buzzed my brain, and jolted my heart into motion once more. It was the silk of skin, the hills and valleys of veins and wrinkles. The warmth, a soft pulse inside a palm, the quiet buzz of life. It was terrifying and electrifying and once I became accustomed to the feeling, it was addicting.
That's when I began to understand how other people craved the touch of one another. There is so much more to people than a general shape and perfunctory pressure. There were hidden details, secret sensations, invisible chemicals that danced between skin, signaling something inside me to no longer shrink, but to expand.
It's like quenching a hidden thirst, feeding a long-dormant hunger. How could I not want to continue when I never knew this kind of nourishment existed? I couldn't see it as greedy or abnormal. The only oddity here was never knowing this was an option.
But as much as I wanted to continue to consume each sensation, the one who removed the glove decided it was best to slide it on again, unable to cope with the possibility that my skin might be as healing to them as theirs was to me. They only reached out once more, not to wrap their arms around me, but to shake my hand goodbye.
As much as I wanted to shrink again, as much as I wanted to concede to concealing myself, I knew it was no longer a viable option. The glove was suddenly suffocating. The skin-to-skin was too pure, to real to repeal from me.
Still, it hurts to think about what my hand might have to endure to feel skin again. To experience all of the wind and rain, the ache of winter, the burn of summer. The needles of rejection stabbing my fingertips, the jagged edges of a broken heart slicing my knuckles. My skin isn't tough. My nails aren't armor plated. But the seasons are changing and I think I should as well.
I don't want to settle for salutations experienced through stitched fabric. I want to replicate that real feeling over and over again. I want to extend my hand in hopes I can feel human once more, that someone will come along with a firm handshake, see my glove on the ground, and grip me even tighter.
vignettes along a vein
I'll miss the glow of your cheek when you smiled. The thunder of your voice when you laughed. The rhythm of your moans when you…
The scene sets over me like a picnic blanket gently floating to the ground. Your ocean eyes danced in the light of the television, a hunger haloing your irises. Your grin, so wide and wild, pushed up prescription lenses. Your hand found its way to the underside of my arm, running your finger along the veins at my wrists.
There was the awkwardness of initial attraction and cautious approach. It was the pressure of your lips, the warmth of your saliva, the shield of smoke that clung to your hair. It was the fear of moving upstairs and the safety of the dark when we got there. It was the paralyzing adrenaline the first time you put your hand in my underwear and wrapped your fingers around it.
It was my first time with you, with anyone. Scared as all hell until I felt the soft tug, the slow reveal, the gasp of admiration. You ran your finger through the clear liquid and brought it to your mouth. The undulation of your wrist. The waves of nerves that rolled over me like the tide of the ocean until I felt lightheaded.
The fear, shame, tease, and craving for more swirled inside that one concentrated cluster. The heat of your mouth, your two hands working in unison. An onslaught of feeling until shortcircuiting, going numb before climbing higher, swelled with loaded senses and disbelief unfolding before me.
Trusting you with all I had, putting it forward in your palms and feeling assured you would not harm it. Your fingers all over my chest, your mouth at my belly. Gentle kisses, a tickling tongue. Grabbing hold again, your finger running along another series of veins.
Deepened breath, the smell of exertion seasoning our bodies. Moisture rolling off your forehead, me running my hand along your smooth silhouette. Disconnected from thought and apprehension, diving deeper into the realization of occurrence, laughing at awkward changes in position, focusing again on your smile, the purse of your lips, your eyes scanning every emotion, plunging forward with abandon, tongues tap dancing together between two sets of smooth lips, building up layers of pleasure, growing, trembling, cascading.
Learning to coordinate limbs and lungs, scaling to higher planes. Blocking out the world to concentrate on the slippery sounds, the unparalleled sensations, the rush of breath magnified in my ears, the dizzying throb of my heart.
Perspiration perishing fantasy and rebuilding rapturous stimulation in its stead. I did not imagine it would go like this, a tangle of emotions and movement, a buzz of fear weaving between a heaving chest, my body lit up, my limbs uncoordinated but determined. A rustling of hair against smooth sheets, spread out in the open, locked away from the world and locked into each other. It was both unremarkable and exhilarating, everyday hands doing extraordinary things. There was no crescendo of music, no divine revelation. It was grounded in sweat and scraping teeth and muscles that grew tired and all the wonderful explosions in between.
Feeling the rush of pride from making you shudder with my mouth, your body rising and quivering beneath me. I felt strong, powerful, sensual in the moments when you grabbed my hair and pulled me in further. I never knew I could affect a body and bring about a pleasure that bloomed so beautifully. The soft exhalation, the quiet tremors, the goosebumps that spread along your legs and spread a smile across my glossed face. You closed your eyes and let me take you there with my teeth at your back and my salt on your lips, with my brush and your canvas, filling in the lines I'd fantasized about long ago.
I think I'm damn good at this.
I could be naked with you, red marks along transparent skin under an even swirl of hair. You did not turn away but put your hands everywhere with a tender grace. You nurtured my body, put my mind at ease, and took charge of my curvature, making great effort to fit it all in.
We could examine each other without distraction, comparing and contrasting textures and temperatures, playing doctor about twenty years too late. I'd never seen it up close. It was a scientific study, a once forbidden door you allowed me to open whenever I wanted. And I allowed you to touch me wherever and whenever you wanted. My cheeks reddened each time you marveled at it, molding and shaping me with your lithe fingers.
Falling so far into you, reaching nirvana on a firm mattress, sprawled out with no clothes and no more fear of judgment. My head flying away from the moment with only reflection reeling inside me under the covers, covered up with you wrapped around me in a sleepy encore. More lips, more eyes, resting up and failing to resist round 2. And 3.
My body can achieve miracles.
I think I will miss that freedom the most, the permission we both granted each other to lean in for a kiss, to reach over for a handful, to allow each other to have free reign over our vessels. Because for a while, I thought I belonged to you. And I was happy to give you want you wanted.
It wasn't just your body but the body of work I wrote in my mind, ideas to tease and excite you, planning scenarios where I could place my hand in yours, where you would lean in and rest on my shoulder. Sensual times when I could perfect the flick of my tongue, to get to know your needs and never take you for granted. Simpler times on your couch with pizza and a remote, sleepy times with slow back massages in your bed. Quietly and wholly just sharing each other, relying on the other one to give not only physical pleasure but emotional support. Not only removing clothes but removing walls, pulling back the cloth and the cage and feeling the pulse of partnership penetrating both of us.
I hate that you closed that door, that I won't see your bed again, that once I finally found my comfort with you, finally started to feel good about what I could do with you, to you, and for you, you took it all from me. I gave you my body and you only gave me a goodbye. All the plans and excitement and fondness has faded. I can't imagine giving myself over to another.
I'd easily relinquish each release if it would release you from your own hell. We couldn't be further away from your bed and I often fear I couldn't be further from your mind. I've waited patiently in hopes that something would change. That maybe you'd see that we could have been good for each other.
But with each passing day, that hope disintegrates and it dawns on me that you don't want anything to change. You're perfectly happy not having me in your life. With no explanation. No regret. And no remorse. I want to be strong for you but you must not have realized how weak I always was. I'm too vulnerable, too exposed. I want to cover myself up again but even if I did, I'd still feel utterly and shamefully stripped.
tunnel (di)vision
"I can never get out of here
I don't wanna explode in fear
A dead astronaut in space…"
-Marilyn Manson, Disassociative
"The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart…"
-Florence and the Machine, Cosmic Love
I still picture your face in my mind. That perfect night when you gave me that perfect smile that conveyed more than words ever could. There was a whole galaxy in your grin. A whole universe of longing orbiting your eyes. The gravity of your heart pressing down on mine. For the first time, it was a weight I didn't mind bearing,
I still think of you every day. My torso trembles in tandem with my phone. My parched eyes drink in your words. I still savor your touch. The rush is still just as real as it ever was. But for you, the wonder has waned. I've accepted it but I'm not ready to release my feelings. Not quite yet.
I keep your face behind my eyelids to remind me of the time you adored me, this pale stranger with a dark sense of humor. That's when you were still curious about my character and the contents of my head. We stood by my car, us learning, me planning, you drawing closer. The excitement of a fresh heartbeat. The thrill of newfound opportunities.
Together, we looked up to the atmosphere like we were discovering some uncharted something. It was creating fluffy creatures from the clouds and soldiers out of the stars. Connecting new dots and forming figures of faith and fortune in the sky. It was about making sense of the world around us, leading each other to conclusions of closeness and contentment. Your sweet words were like satellites spinning around my soul and I felt like I was floating.
Cloaked in midnight, your smile was a tunnel directed toward me alone. And I was too caught up in the constellation of feelings, too starstruck to see the plight at the end of that tunnel. You were in a world of pain that I could not penetrate or perish. I took your hand in hopes of helping you heal. But you loosened your grip and left me to hurt instead.
Did you ever ponder the gravitational pull of my own pain? How I needed you as much as I thought you wanted me? Did you notice the satellites stray off course? Or did you only have enough strength to stare down your own demons?
I had hoped to feel the swell of your heart but only found a division there, a widening gap that I could not seal. I felt bound to you but you blasted off like a rocket. Now I'm left with a black hole in my chest, pulling in reminders of you and burying them deep down inside, a mix of good memories and melancholia.
I wish I had that smile back. I wish I could see that face again, just once more to burn into my memory. There was such purity there, an innocence. A face that opened up my whole world.
It was cosmic once. Now it just feels like comets crashing into me.
something blue
"Something's missing in me
I felt it deep within me
As lovers left me to bleed alone
Down here, love wasn't meant to be
It wasn't meant to be for me"
-Flyleaf, Missing
"When you close your eyes even then your eyelids are beautiful
for so long there have been traces of you in blood vessels inside my skull"
-Showbread, I Want to get Married
A couple of Saturdays ago, I went to a wedding with an old friend. I didn't know the married couple and all the attendants were new to me but the friend needed a plus one and borrowed me for the occasion. You see where this is going. I just needed to find something blue.
Despite my anxiety around crowds, especially crowds of strangers, I figured it would be a change of pace. A chance to do something different, to ask off work, and dress up a bit. I just hoped I'd be able to squeeze my binge-eating butt into my old slacks. I did…but barely.
The ceremony itself was fine. It was simple, inside a simple church with simple decoration. No blue sashes or neckties. No blue in the flowers. Just a red-faced toddler sitting in front of me and a bellowing baby sitting behind me and they both screamed in unison just as the ceremony began and continued their commentary throughout because my life.
Despite my current situation, I didn't feel too bitter or sad about seeing two flesh become one. I was pretty unaffected witnessing the standard union of two people, in love and full of life. It happens every day. Life goes on. Good for them. The only discomfort came from those slacks. But one moment did stick out to me. The pastor read a quote from Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 that goes:
Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone
Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Having never been in a relationship, I wondered why I'd never been able to find my own plus one. How had I made it 32 years while God made sure I remained lonely? If He had allowed such a declaration to be included in the good book, why have I always been denied the privilege?
While the ceremony was about 30 minutes, the reception went on for three and a half hours. And it was mostly held outside. No blueberries in the fruit plate while the newlyweds went off to be photographed with family. No blue ribbons adorning the arches. Why do people in the south insist on having outside weddings in the middle of summer? I was drenched in sweat and wanted to leave but the girl I went with wanted to stay for the cake cutting and to try to catch the bouquet. Don't get me wrong, the cake was one thing this big boy was looking forward to but in this case, I'd rather have air conditioning than confections. I was a good sport, however, and smiled and blotted my face and tried to inconspicuously unstick my bat-winged balls.
And when it was cake time, I eagerly got in line. No blue fondant. The lady serving the cake cut off the smallest piece possible for me. Oh, sorry ma'am, I thought I was gonna be able to get more than a few crumbs that fell off your knife. I looked at her, thinking she would realize the error of her ways and cut off a little more for me but she just stood there so I quickly dipped out and ate the slice in three bites.
It was a little dry.
Turns out, the bride wanted to wait until it got dark outside so she and her husband could walk out under sparklers. Which meant more waiting, more forehead blotting and being the iPhone photographer for everyone else who knew each other and wanted to blow up Instagram with high school friends in rolled hair and pretty dresses.
Even the girl I attended with drifted away for a while to take pictures with former work friends she hadn't seen in a while. I looked around me and saw everyone with someone else. Girlfriends. Boyfriends. Wives and husbands. Best friends. The caterers and photographers doing their jobs. Everyone with a purpose. I stood by the wall, unsure of what to do with myself. And I felt like there should have been someone next to me. Someone to help me up, to keep me warm, to defend me against my own self-destructive thoughts. Someone to make me feel like I also had a purpose. But the only thing that ever stands next to me is an empty void and that void only reminds me that I don't have a purpose.
Night fell but the heat did not wane. It penetrated through the dark and doled out more sweat for me. All the single ladies gathered around the bride. As she flung the bouquet into the arms of an overzealous 20-something in a billowy yellow dress, I realized I had found my something blue. It was me.
God knows my heart, knows I have a lot of love to give, and yet I always stand alone. Sometimes I think I'm getting close and despite my hesitations to let anyone near, I do because there's always the faintest hope that maybe my person has finally come, that this could be the one to turn it all around. But they only turn me in the direction I've already traced too many times. And I wonder why God would tease and punish me in this way. Denying me is one thing. This just feels deceitful.
I'm not saying I'm more deserving of love than anyone else but I do think I need it more than most. I can't do life by myself. I can't conquer my demons all alone like this.
The ache never really goes away. Sometimes it gets easier to deal with but it's never defeated. Do you know what it's like to see the world through glass, to feel others through gloves? To live life for bitter and worse, to endure sickness and hell, to forever be separating until death does me apart?
To be one strand already broken?
I do.
of tissue and glass
I've been crying a lot lately.
It's mostly been over inconsequential things, like dog videos. And they're cute videos about dogs tucking in babies or hugging other dogs. Just generally being sweet and adorable. It sounds lame on the surface to cry over this kind of thing (What the heck, am I a pregnant woman?) but I just love animals and dogs are just so amazing and beautiful and have pure souls. I've never met a bad dog. And they're just so cute and it warms the coldness I have inside. And when I see those damn ASPCA commercials or the inevitable screen grab of abused animals that are advertised on the web, it breaks my heart. I don't just see the images of freezing puppies chained to a fence or a cat with one eye sitting in the corner of a cage. My mind goes beyond the images. What happened to them to get them in that situation? What cruel person took this innocent creature and tortured it and neglected it? I step into their fur and see the world the way they do. I wonder how long they suffered. I hate that they never got to know love. I worry for them. I wish for them to be okay. And it just makes me so sad that there's so much suffering in the world, especially suffering animals because no one cares about animals. We hear, "Save the Children, Save the Refugees" and I totally agree with that. But you don't hear "Save the animals!" as much.
And then on Facebook I saw this video of this kid who had a mental and physical impairment but this guy at Starbucks gave him a chance and made him a barista and the kid said he felt like his life had a purpose now. That made me cry, too. And I thought that was just really nice of that guy to help out the kid and I thought it was great that the kid felt like he had a purpose. And his purpose was making coffee. And that seems so simple and inconsequential and maybe it is, but to him it wasn't. Maybe it was just the fact that he had something to do, something to contribute to the world. He could help people. It was something so small but he was so grateful for it.
I turn that on myself and I feel like a jerk. I feel like my life has no meaning. I go to work every day and I fold shirts and tell customers their coupons don't work on Levis and they get pissed at me and give me a hard time and then I go home. What am I contributing to these people, to the world, to life? I have dressed a lot of people for funerals, both attendees and the deceased. I suppose you could say by helping these people dress for a difficult situation, I am easing some of the burden. And maybe I am. And maybe they don't think twice about my small contribution. I don't know. All I know is that it's not enough. But should I not be grateful for the little bit I do? Whether I'm pushing coffee or khakis, if I'm assisting someone make their day easier, isn't that enough? Shouldn't we all be helping each other, whether in small or large ways?
I constantly go back and forth between feeling useless and realizing that I am not. Or if I am, I could always do something about it. I could be an activist. I could spread good news. I could give to charity. I could hand out compliments and positive vibes to others. It just never feels like enough because I don't see the effects of my actions. At work, I send people off with their clothes and never see how good they feel wearing their new outfit. I compliment someone's haircut and don't get to know how that might cheer them up if their in a bad mood. I donate blood and never know if it might have saved a life.
I guess this kind of sounds selfish, right? I do all these great things and get nothing out of it! It's not that I'm looking for recognition or accolades. I just want to know that the admittedly little bit of good that I do is making a difference to someone. In the grand scheme of things, we are all useless. None of what we do or say is really going to matter. But some of us can make the littlest blip on the cosmic radar. Your great leaders. Your great artists. Your presidents and advocates. Those who created a lasting change. Those who started a revolution in thinking, working, loving, living. Even all that might not matter once the world explodes. But at least it might ease the burden on others for as long as everything is still standing.
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"Let's type words
Because they amount to nothing
Play it down
Pretend you can't take what you've found
But you found me
On a screen you sit at permanently…"
-Ellie Goulding, Guns and Horses
When you get carpel tunnel from scrolling through your news feed, you're probably following too many people.
It's always interesting to me when I see others who follow hundreds of users on social media. I wonder how they're able to keep up with so many individuals. How long does it take them to get through their feed before they hit that familiar old post they left off on from their last visit?
It takes me quite a while to go through all the ones I follow and I don't even follow that many. But I do get through everyone. I know what they're up to, which is why I followed them in the first place. It means I'm interested in each person. But if you're following so many people that the individual gets lost in the abundance of memes and controversy-of-the-week type rants, then what's the point? What are you getting out of it?
I don't like change so I don't follow too many new people. 'Cause when I follow someone, my feed changes. And it's usually not for the better. It's not so much that anyone is annoying or not interesting. It's just that I'm a douche bag. But I think it's also because I want to be careful with who I follow because I already have a full plate and a limited attention span. If I'm with you, I want to give you all I have. I don't want to follow you and then now follow up with a little communication. I don't want you to get lost in the shuffle. You're more important than that.
I used to assume other people worked that was as well. People got to know me and know what was going on with me and my life. They saw each post, read every word. 'Cause why else would you follow me, right? But sometimes I check on users I follow and who follow me and see they are following hundreds of others. And I realize that, compared to the handful of people I follow, my posts probably bleed into everyone else's. I am probably scrolled past because there's hundreds of images and words to get through and no one has time to dedicate to my long-ass text posts. I always hoped the content would hook them despite the length. But that just isn't the case.
I understand.
But I'm just not like that. And that's when attachments become one-sided. You forget you're not as special to someone as they may be to you. While you're breaking your finger to scroll through the endless fuckjerry's and beigecardigans, I'm focusing on you. And I like your stuff. And you like mine. But only occasionally. And it's hard to understand that your acknowledgement is really just a like-and-run. Nothing really absorbs or resonates. You pepper your feed with red hearts while my heart is grafting onto you. You peruse analytics while I analyze you as a person.
And "liked" become messages become attempts at genuine friendships, which are shrugged off in favor of favoriting a funny quote instead. And I'm let down. And every time your screen name pops up, it pops me in the face. And I realize I've been stupid and have developed feelings for someone who can't tell me apart from the other bearded guys they follow. I feel lame with a quivering stomach and confused heart. I gotta stop this now before this one-sided situation goes any deeper.
I gotta let you go. I unfollow and my feed gets that much smaller. While I deal with my feelings and try to move on with this unresolved relationship, wanting you to know I felt and how much it hurt, I know you'll never notice me bowing out, replaced by hundreds of other memes and montages. And it sucks. But I have to remember that I never really knew you that well in the first place. I have to remind myself my chest ran ahead of my skull. It was my fault, really. Time and Tumblr do not a friendship make.
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The family of a 12-year-old Vancouver boy who has autism is raising money to help purchase an autism anchoring dog for their son.
An autism anchoring dog can make a huge difference for a child like Deklan Nguyen. Children with autism sometimes run off. An autism anchoring dog is trained to lay down and keep the child from being able to go anywhere.
Deklan's father, Mark Montes, said his son has run off many times in the past.
"There was an instance with him years ago at school, running across a busy street, [he] didn't even look to see where he was going," said Mark Montes, Deklan's father. "We've had him run out in church parking lots before. [It's] just that inability to recognize danger."
Deklan used to have an autism anchoring dog, a St. Bernard named Andy. "He calmed me down," Deklan said. "He stopped me from running away."
But Andy died last summer, so Deklan's family is raising money to get him another autism anchoring dog. The new dog they want to bring into their family is named Valor.
Autism anchoring dogs go through special training, so they're expensive, costing anywhere from $30,000 to $35,000. And Deklan's family is just $5,000 away from reaching their fundraising goal.
On Sunday afternoon, the family held a benefit concert and fundraiser at Billy Blues Bar and Grill in Vancouver, with a silent auction and raffle tickets. Deklan even got up on stage and sang a song with his father and the band.
The organization Deklan will be getting his new dog from is based in Portland. If you didn't make it to the fundraiser, you can still donate here.


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The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Mohammed has on Wednesday 10th October promulgate the leader of the five justices of the Supreme Court to hear about the case filed by the PDP and its presidential candidate.
The Justices names are:
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Olukayode Ariowola
Amiru Sanusi
Ejembi Eko
Uwani Aba-Aji.
Alhaji Atiku and his party had together filed their appeal before the court to challenge the September 11, 2019 judgement of the Justice Mohammed Garba-led Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal.
Atiku and his party were not satisfied with the judgement they had regarding the outcome of the Feb. 23, 2019 poll.


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2. She praises you when you're doing something right.
You made grades? Awesome, let's go out for drinks!
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I call/text my big whenever I need help making a choice or if I need to talk through something, no matter the situation.
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Big/little reveal is like Christmas on steroids, but it doesn't end there. Your big will always back you and spoil you where she can. Food, drinks, clothes, drinks, and so on.
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I left my sorority when I transferred, and I left a little behind too. My big watches over her and takes care of her just like she takes care of me.
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I mean, "tries" is the key word here. And that's all that I'm gonna say about that.
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I refer to my big and her boyfriend as mom and dad all the time. My big takes care of me and her boyfriend makes sure I'm okay too; I love them for that.
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I go to her and tell her things that I'm not proud of, and she knows things that other people don't. She's like a vault, or a therapist or something. There's an unspoken confidentiality agreement there.
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Even the impending Storm Ciara didn't put off riders from the Ellen Valley Riding Club as they took part in a ride on Saturday to raise money to help equines caught up in the bush fires in Australia.
The ride was organised by Pauline Allport and started from Cockermouth Rugby Club before heading toward Sale Fell.
Pauline had walked the route in advance to ensure that, on the day, it was passable.
Local vet Amanda Carson had helped the club to identify an appropriate charity in Australia (Equestrian Fire Relief).
She did her vet training and worked there for 10 years.
Amanda still has family and friends there, so has first-hand knowledge of the situation.
Rosettes were given to all riders and Amanda was awarded a prize for raising the most sponsorship.
More than £1,100 was raised on the day.
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Our multi-site group in Pittsburgh, PA is seeking an EM ultrasound fellowship-trained physician to be the EM Ultrasound Director at one of our affiliated hospital EDs
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Vermont Business Magazine Norwich University officials announced that Professors Allison Neal and Thomas Shell each earned a $75,000 Project Award from the Vermont Genetics Network (VGN) for their research projects, totaling $150,000 to Norwich to advance research. Assistant Professor of Biology Allison Neal has been awarded a VGN Project Award for $75,000 for her work titled "Division of Labor in Freshwater Trematodes: The Host Longevity Hypothesis." Previously, she has received a Pilot Award and a Small Award from VGN for her work related to this project.
Neal is a passionate researcher who has contributed to advancing original research within the state. She was the impetus for the "Disease Ecology Working Group" and organized the first Disease Ecology Annual Meeting this past summer. The working group involves three other VGN researchers from Vermont institutions. VGN is using this as a model to try to create other thematic working groups to bring Vermont researchers together.
Neal also includes many students in her lab providing a high-impact practice for Norwich students. She worked with two VGN-funded students during the summer of 2017 and other students funded through the NU Undergraduate Research program. These students have presented their work with her at regional and national conferences, in particular, one student presented at Posters on the Hill. She has also mentored several Honors Program student in her lab in both the Honors Contract course and the Honors Thesis. She plans to include students in her lab this coming summer.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Thomas Shell has been awarded a VGN Project Award for $75,000 for a second year. He has been working on his research titled "Development of Photopharmaceuticals to Treat Head and Neck Cancer" since coming to Norwich in 2017. Shell has published peer-reviewed papers on his work and is actively trying to obtaining external funding.
Last year, Shell worked with three students in his lab that also received funding through both VGN and the Norwich University Undergraduate Research Program. These students have presented their work with Shell at many regional and national conferences. This semester, he has included an Honors Program student in his lab and he plans to work with additional students this coming summer. His research has also provided a high-impact practice for our students.
Over the past decade Norwich University has grown its investment in faculty and undergraduate research of endowed income and reinvested grant overhead to over $800K, to go along with over $4.1 million of externally acquired research and institutional grants managed by the Office of Academic Research. Over 250 students have conducted research since the Office of Academic Research was created in 2007, thus formalizing research activities at Norwich. The stated goal of the program is:
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AirHogs held to three hits in 4-0 loss
July 21, 2013 - American Association (AA) - Grand Prairie AirHogs News Release
St. Paul- Mark Hamburger had a gem of a game for the St. Paul Saints as he shut out the AirHogs 4-0 Saturday night at Midway Stadium. The AirHogs could only get three hits off of Hamburger. Each getting one hit in the game was Ryan Pineda, Andres Rodriguez, and Austin Newell. The offense then seemed stalled for the AirHogs.
Pitching in the loss for the AirHogs was Brandon Bargas who did not have a bad outing. Bargas gave up only three runs, with two of them being earned in six innings of work. He gave up six hits and struck out three Saints. Jakob Cunningham pitched the seventh inning and gave up two hits and no runs. Cunningham also struck out one. Gabriel Garcia was put in in the eighth. He gave up one run on one hit.
The AirHogs and Saints will play the finale of their five-game series Sunday afternoon at 1:05 P.M. at Midway Stadium.
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A leap of faith in logistics' last mile
EVEN in the dog-eat-dog world of the logistics industry, pooches will sometimes have to stick together.
This is the view of former air force officer Vincent Phang, who is now chief executive of home-grown ST Logistics and Toll Group's Singapore executive vice-president for global logistics.
"In our journey to be a market leader here, I consider it imperative that we create inter-operable solutions for industry," he said.
Operating receipts for transport and storage services totalled S$104.77 billion in 2016, almost triple the S$36.28 billion in 2000, going by Department of Statistics figures.
But, with the industry split across 12,510 establishments, market fragmentation is a sore spot.
Add to that the challenge presented by the rise of e-commerce giants such as Amazon and Alibaba.
Armed with big data on customers and goods, they have gone from being purely online retail marketplaces to getting their own hands dirty in the warehouse and delivery business, in preference to relying on third parties.
And there is no end of third parties either.
Besides global titans and small family outfits, the transport and storage sector - which contributed to 7.2 per cent of last year's gross domestic product - has also seen start-ups pop up for the last-mile delivery of consumers' online purchases.
Mr Phang, who used to head operational logistics for Singapore's F-16 fighter jets, said: "With the new technology players - certainly they bring a different element, a different dimension to the game. To put it very bluntly, they upped the stakes for the whole industry. Logistics and the supply chain will change. You cannot find a more exciting time to be in this industry."
And there will be no quarter given to luddites either. Futuristic solutions, such as automated goods movement and tracking on the floor, are already in place at the company's one-year-old Toll City in Tuas.
The five-storey, 100,000 sq m warehouse facility cost S$228 million and is due to open officially later this month.
"If not for the technology, this is just a very big warehouse. With the technology that we apply, we hope to generate, certainly, a lot more productivity and efficiency within the businesses that we have," he said.
"Our investment into the level of technology is meant to address some of the disruptions that we see. . . What's important is for us to continue to experiment, to ensure that we stay on top of things and to see where we can embed those into our operations."
Unmanned forklifts are just the beginning. On top of an alert system that flags potential disruptions to global corridors - from storms over Japan to dock strikes in Israel - a "control tower" at Toll City tracks its trucking fleet across the island.
It can flag idling and speeding lorries, as well as those that are deviating from their routes or venturing into no-go zones such as the Malaysian border.
Toll is also partnering medical-technology multinational Medtronic in a pilot for a hospital smart cabinet, which will be able to track which staff member removed what equipment for whose healthcare procedures.
Mr Phang said: "It is quite granular, but it is only through the detailed application or understanding... that we can then mine the data and get a more detailed understanding of how that supply chain should be run.
"In the process of doing so, we've actually brought significant value to our clients, both with the hospital, in having a much more streamlined supply chain, and, at the same time, triggering the replenishment response from the warehouse and even further upstream, back to the manufacturers."
This is a far cry from the trans-boundary haze crisis in 2013.
He recalled that when public demand for N-95 respirator masks went through the roof, his company had no high-tech war room - and so had to co-ordinate island-wide mask deliveries armed with no more than whiteboards and telephones.
Limited resources
"You talk about last miles - that was the real last mile," he said.
With that experience behind him, solutions like the smart cabinet and fleet tracker are what he hopes will bring to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into the logistics ecosystem.
"It is inevitable that - in Singapore, for example, where there are limited resources, limited real estate, limited labour - that the idea of shared resources, shared capacities, becomes very appealing.
"How that pans out, obviously, remains to be seen, but... as a big company, it is incumbent on us to create some of those solutions that could, in time, perhaps, be inter-operable solutions across the industry."
For example, the Logistics Alliance industry group was formed in July last year. It counts among its members the Container Depot and Logistics Association (Singapore), the Singapore Logistics Association, the Singapore Transport Association and the former Singapore Aircargo Agents Association, now SAAA@Singapore.
"The concept of sharing capacity is important to me, and with the work that we do, there's always opportunity for collaboration, partnership, with some of our SME partners," he said.
"Be it an individual component within the supply chain - it could be in terms of trucking, or it could be in terms of last-mile deliveries - we try to assemble a strong value proposition for our client."
Some of this value "might be that we engage our counterparts in the industry to provide an industry solution".
Citing the fleet monitoring platform in his control tower at the headquarters, he said: "If, in time, we could extend that so that we could build an industry-wide solution rather than a singular company solution, I think that would be very positive for, say, the vision of achieving urban logistics."
Tapping the fledgling urban logistics segment is just the latest step for ST Logistics, which started life in 1970 as Chartered Materials & Services.
It was part of the Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS) group of defence-related companies that was the precursor to Singapore Technologies, which is now owned by state investment firm Temasek.
Taking wing beyond Singapore
But ST Logistics went a different route. It was bought in 2006 by Australia's Toll Group, which was in turn taken over by the privatising national mailman Japan Post in 2015.
Although ST Logistics has a focus on the healthcare industry and fast-moving consumer goods, legacy public-sector clients such as the Singapore Armed Forces remain key too, Mr Phang said.
"With our new shareholders, Japan Post, there's a great desire for us to be more regional, more global and be represented across more markets. And Singapore is one of those core markets that we are looking at developing and investing heavily into.
"The shareholders have been incredibly supportive of the work that we do. Singapore offers other unique opportunities as well, in the market leadership in terms of urban logistics, for example...
"Singapore could be an example of how cities will be in time to come. We have our own challenges of labour and real estate and an ageing population. Logistics and supply chain solutions that we develop in a market like that will be relevant."
With recent collaborations that include e-commerce-related learning exchanges between Singapore institutes and their Indonesian counterparts, Mr Phang figures that neighbouring countries' investments in infrastructure mega-projects are opportunities for regional growth, not threats to Singapore's ports and warehouses.
This is despite the traditional rivalry between Singapore and other hubs such as Port Klang in Malaysia.
"Logistics is not a zero-sum game, the way we see it. It's not about, say, a threat from a different market becoming more sizeable than us," he says.
"It's always about connectivity, it's about our ability to serve our clients across the whole market."


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Tenaciously holding on her shadows,,,
Eyes at 90°, fixed on all the love windows
Both my hands are grasping her soul as it vapour
The same hands want to stop the windows as they close with the better.
My strained mind can't deal with this matter.
Just one mistake, she sets everything ablaze.
our love is fading with the burning ashes,
Nothing left for me to gaze, but just burnt love which left dark smoke on my lashes.
Smoke rising above, with black hearts, its a sign of burnt love. Flowing tears can't quench the fire. This is not what I wanted, it wasn't my desire.
Everything transpiring in my sight,
With love expiring in my heart.
I still shout "I Love You", but she's not there to say "Love you too".The love we had is lost.Ashes are buried in my heart, Her moving shadows dim my bright light.
_"I still hold on those shadows of your past glory._
_I know I have wronged you, forgive me, I'm sorry ."_
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Power of masses in effecting change should not be underrated
A coup happened for the umpteenth time in coup-prone Burkina Faso but stand-in-vacuum military leader Lt Col Isaac Zida has not set a precedent for Africa because it was set by then Lt Gen Suwar El Dahab in Sudan decades ago.
What Blaise Compaore's removal by the masses has done is to confirm Africa's greatest paradox that history repeats itself because the 'dinosaurs' Ambassador William Naggaga cogently described in his recent article, learn nothing from it! True, Zida's action has saved the subversion of a people's popular revolt after mass protests ejected Compaore from power.
It was like reading a script from the overthrow of Field Marshal Gaafar Muhammad Numeiry in the Republic of Sudan decades ago. There was general disgruntlement over a wide range of issues. Ugandans ain't seen nothing yet when they talk of load-shedding. In a country reputed to be one of the hottest places in the world, electricity in the early 1980s used to go off for extended periods.
Air coolers and conditioners are mostly powered by electricity and without them the atmosphere indoors is akin to an oven. Never mind that it is that same country to which, according to veteran journalist and retired senior foreign service officer Jenkins Kiwanuka in his book, Son of a Rat Catcher, Ambassador Ibrahim Mukiibi refused to go but this writer, whom the author, with tongue-in-cheek described as 'a hard-skinned officer' lived and worked for six years!
Numeiry's government increased the prices of sugar, cooking oil and bread all loved by school pupils who promptly took to the streets to protest and were joined by their poorly salaried teachers, followed by the equally frustrated health workers who could not bear the stench of rotting bodies in the morgue because the refrigeration system was kaput.
A general strike then ensued, paralysing the State. The government responded by ordering the police to quell the upheaval, but the Sudan People's Defence Forces, who were ordered to assist the police stayed in their tanks and keenly watched as the police brutalised the demonstrators.
Then extraordinary things happened. The turrets were rotated such that the gun muzzles pointed backwards, which I hear is a signal of surrender! The demonstrators were invited to climb onto the tanks, which then rolled downtown! We rushed to the safety of our residences in the Al Amarat neighbourhood of Khartoum where upon arrival and switching on the TV, the image of Gen El Dahab appeared.
"To save a bad situation from getting worse, the armed forces have decided to side with the people," he roared promising to hold power for one year to allow the process of returning the country to democracy take place. He kept his promise and handed power back to a civilian administration amid impassioned appeals for him to continue.
The breakdown of national authority, as happened in Burkina Faso, often draws international actors into the domestic politics of a country. Ethically, should foreigners enter the domestic political struggles of other countries? Sovereignty has been an inconsistently applied principle. Domestic issues influence the probability of internal conflict but as the Burkinabe have learnt, international forces usually exert decisive influence as well and are often important players in the struggle for democratic rule.
It is hard to discern the objectives of all the players in domestic politics but one thing is clear though the power of the masses in effecting change must never be underrated. The idea that a country's institutions and internal interests are sometimes influenced by international forces is also cogent.
Mr Baligidde is Director of UMU's Rubaga Campus. email@example.com
SOURCE: Daily Monitor