It's hard for an orphan to know who to trust.

[fflo]

Lots of yer orphans aren't orphans until they're older. But it doesn't matter how old you are. And there are lots of ways of being orphanned.

Sometimes I feel like an orphan among orphans.

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It's too cold to go outside. I'm not acclimated.

Comments

sundays suck, no?

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

aside from sundays sucking and contributing to the intensity of the quest, orphanhood is a fascinating phenomenon any day.

being a child of an orphan, i've been observing the evolution of that feeling. sometimes even reading it back into behaviors for which i had no explanations earlier. seeing how orphans refuse to let others disturb their "peace" of solitude and beg to be disturbed at the same time.

then it's hard to figure out if it's all due to my own aging, or to my own peculiar orphanhood: physically and apparently limited to one continent, symbolically unlimited in space or time (orphans don't know what parenting is about; fun never stops).

Re: sundays suck, no?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

earlier today dr arwulf & fellow pitchpeople for donations (it's fundraising week in public radio, as you've perhaps noticed) were painting a picture of our sundays out in the audience with our radios and the old jazz, and i had to allow as how once in a while my midday sunday, if the timing is right, has something homey i can find myself liking that way, me and the radio and the dishes and the coffee and the cats. can't count on it. but it's there sometimes.

but, i do declare, the orphanned of spirit, and the orphannedness of spirit within me: they are to be contended with. what you said about seeing how orphans refuse to let others disturb their "peace" of solitude and beg to be disturbed at the same time. this is a thing. i feel it on both sides.

your own peculiar orphanhood--- yes. yours is surely a combo platter. no substitutions allowed! cheese extra. not available after 2 pm! 15% gratuity will automatically be charged for parties of 8 or more. and restrooms for customers only.