Good to be home, however late. Simpler, getting in and out of places... Jakarta security, while efficient, is still...team driven, hyper- detailed and managed...

mist settling, dusk falls, and light diminishes, to the best time of the day...or one of them... gloaming \GLOH-ming\, noun: Twilight; dusk. Gloaming comes from Old English glomung, from glom, "dusk." wishing well: tsg back: jakarta

I've been working in Jakarta and took a running vacation out to Bali -- here, with my lover, adventuress, that she is. Bird spiders in the lowland, clear dawning, in the volcanic highlands. More bugs, wandering -- along with me...

the night, as I slept, was long: wind driven, rain washed, sea crashing, on the rocks -- a lengthy whispering that took me to the place of the deep dream, the deep dive -- still, a vision -- from me, contemplating you... being here now, it's goodness, in the quietude, still alone, recalling, to your warming expressions and gentle smile. Feeling blessed, in all: with what I know, share, experience and drift to -- in my wandering...with you. The art of love, of loving all, of you, that there is...

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 of these people and their ways, I found a t. A T stone. It was crumblings from some lonesome masonry mill, but where, who knows. Consumed by the verging jungle. ---- And what better symbolic hortatory than the proclamation of the T?...

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 balance point: Example sentence: Each stone has its balance point, but finding the centering for each, in creating the cairn,? takes a measure of coaxing; and the arrogance of the foolishly inclined; for in the end, it all falls down.?...

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 inspecting. _________________________________________________________ Perambulate comes from Latin per-, "through" + ambulare, "to walk." The noun form is perambulation.How about Victoria's Secret, as a new client, speaking of movements...?...

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 \sim-yuh-LAY-kruh; -LAK-ruh\: 1. An image; a representation. 2. An insubstantial, superficial, or vague likeness or semblance. It becomes harder... to distinguish the genuine from its simulacrum. -- Wayne Curtis, "The Tiki Wars," [2]The Atlantic, February 2001 Simulacrum is...