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Nov.23.2012
Back and forth the saga goes. The price gouging and the laments of those who wish their childhood would live forever, please the folks cry, "Not the Twinkie!" In essence I should or could be one of those people to cringe. My lunchbox included those yellow, creamy bits of sugary deliciousness. I...
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Nov.06.2012
I believe in peace. I often lack it in my mind and in my life and so I strive for it, cultivate it. Lately, I find that this cultivation has been at a small standstill. I know I wasn't so nice after Hurricane Sandy--was inflamed by people gouging and hoarding gas and was utterly unsurprised by the...
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Nov.02.2012
I ran from New Jersey for New York City at breakneck speed in my childhood dreams, driving through the Soho art scene on sleepy Sunday mornings on our way to visit my cousins in the outer boroughs. I looked at the thin people and the black outfits with my nose almost pressed to the glass of our...
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Sep.11.2012
Today the sun is shining, the sky is clearly reflecting a shade of blue that makes all the world feel like a fable. It is a stage for weaving tales of goodness and abundance. It is a sky that sings of harvest, even here, in the city where ideas are grown more than fruits. What is true today, was...
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Sep.06.2012
I remember the first cold winter morning that I made my way into a tiny dark room. Years would go by before I'd try it again. The magic of seeing the picture take shape on a blank page stayed with me, even if my desire to work hours in the dark room did not. Life turned digital and although my...
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Aug.29.2012
Sometimes I sit down to write and I swear some spirit of righteousness overtakes me. I go from being perfectly reasonable to being perfectly intolerable. A magical soapbox slides under my tush and suddenly I'm on top of all the legitimate arguments in this world. I wonder what goes on inside me?...
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Jul.24.2012
I have no idea which spelling I prefer, so I switch it up a bit when considering life inside a recent art installation.
From early June until early July I lived inside a wonderful little space within a space. I don't know which cultural icon of habitation I will appropriate next, perhaps it will be...
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May.13.2012
My mother is the only person I write about in glowing terms who I often treat, not so well. From the written word to actions in life a divide can present itself. This year was not idyllic as far as celebrating Mother's Day with Mom. It wasn't terrible or super sweet. We don't have the type of...
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Apr.20.2012
Considering my politics I should be tickled to joy that Occupy Wall Street is pushing for many May 1st actions. I should be excited to celebrate the worker, the common person who makes this world run, because I am one of them. The problem for me is that I would have much rather preferred another...
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Apr.13.2012
I remember the Spring of Rapture.
It was dry and sunny and the wild fires blazed on the mainland while small islands began disappearing from the maps. The prophets were pretty self satisfied, the cartographers were overworked and all in all the Earth turned like it always did.
Somewhere between...
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Nov.02.2011
I was reading the blogs chosen by the Red Room Editors on the topic of Civil Disobedience. I enjoyed all three for their unique depth and honesty. So, maybe instead of going on in this post, I'll refer you to them and suggest that you tweet to your friends and followers. One thing I've noticed is...
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Oct.27.2011
I looked at him with his short haircut and his particular stance. His iphone was trained on my face. Undercover someone was taking my picture. "Hello, police" I mouthed and when he looked at me, I knew it was true. That's not a good feeling.
I'm like most people. I want a calm, quiet life. I want...
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Oct.18.2011
The last week or so I've been blogging a bit about my experience of Occupy Wall Street. Sometimes I'm there, sometimes I'm carrying on with the rest of my life, doing the daily hustle to survive. I'll be posting more, so stop in whenever it pleases you. Last night's adventure can be found here.
And...
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Sep.24.2011
Discipline brings its own calm. Writing, practice, eating, paying the bills, they all swell to overtake me if I don't maintain some calibration of tranquility. I started organizing my blog writing and last week started writing my Street Signals. Of course, I don't look so military, so a return to...
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Sep.16.2011
It's time to shake my tree, time to get my feet moving again, so today I started a new series on my blog called, Street Signals. I figured it's time to organize my website and all the crazy types of writing I put on there. I pity those people who try to keep up with my untamed mind and have decided...
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About Mariette
A writer and photographer and accidental technologist, Mariette's work includes deeply personal poetic stylings to outlier theories on consciousness and technologies. Her focus is on the modern experience of voice via graffiti, the Internet and the politics...
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