by Tim Girvin | Mar 24, 2006 | Diary
I was hiking up in the hills above Borobadur, and there were little villages, rice fields and households – impoverished, but beautiful and friendly people. Hardworking would be an extraordinary understating… Out there, in the primitive hardscrabble wilds...
by Tim Girvin | Mar 24, 2006 | Diary
coax \KOAKS\ verb 1 : to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering 2 : to draw, gain, or persuade by means of gentle urging *3 : to manipulate with great perseverance and usually with considerable effort toward a desired state or activityin finding the...
by Tim Girvin | Mar 8, 2006 | Diary
I get around Photos by Tim Girvin perambulate \puh-RAM-byuh-layt\, intransitive verb: 1. To walk about; to roam; to stroll; as, “he perambulated in the park.” transitive verb: 1. To walk through or over. 2. To travel over for the purpose of surveying or...
by Tim Girvin | Mar 7, 2006 | Diary
I’m looking for the real thing; but then again, what’s to say that the real thing isn’t merely a “shade” of some other, perhaps more wonderful… similarity. simulacrum \sim-yuh-LAY-kruhm; -LAK-ruhm\, noun; plural simulacra...
by Tim Girvin | Feb 27, 2006 | Diary
We win Canyon Ranch Living in Miami; while the winning is grand, the vibe of Miami is curious. It’s moneyed, but cultural — to the arts — vacant. The sensing is all about the transport of snowbird capital, from the north, to the south, from the far...
by Tim Girvin | Feb 23, 2006 | Diary
After long, stormwashed and cast along, the Wanderer stone was found, buried under tons of washed pilings and logs, hidden, the gyrovague — a stony meandering. Never lost, merely unseen… gyrovague (JYE-ro-vayg) noun A monk who travels from one place to...
