Thursday, April 22, 2004

Neglect-a-rino

It's been a week.

In this short dispatch, I have the following notes to declare:

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I don't think you can make blanket generalizations about life. I think the most important factor when talking about life is not the person living it, ..but WHERE they live.

Think about the word necessity. Things that are necessary for life in other countries are not necessary in ours.

I think the only things we need for life in the US is Love and Wealth.

We have everything else almost by default. Furthermore, if we accumulate love and wealth, we would automatically have everything else we could possibly think of as needs.

Those are the ingredients.

In week 1 of marriage I realized what it means to have love. I've got it, and it's great. It's like nothing I've experienced before. Maybe it's just our "honeymoon" period, but everything's been chocolate cigarettes so far.

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In my pre-wifed days, the formula for dinner was:

(flour tortilla + butter) or (bread + peanut butter) or (1 box of stuffing + water)

Today it is filled with exotic ingredients and smells. The sharp, ripe, punchy odor of fresh ginger being grated and mixed with soy sauce. The sound of thin sliced, marinated pork hissing at the bottom of a skillet. The soft, sweet taste of Japanese croquets dipped in some strange, non-tangy-yet-orangey sauce. I could go on ...

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Where there once was two, now there is one. Stronger and happier than the individual parts.