Thursday, May 11, 2006

*Blue


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Originally uploaded by kjshoemaker.
My moto has a first name, its B-L-U-E-!

Ah, reminiscence for those in the know.

*Meet my trusty motorcycle. She has 100cc and great gas mileage. No, with 100kg to lug around she cannot go very fast. Just like me.

North shore sunset hour


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Originally uploaded by kjshoemaker.
I've got a couple pretty shots up on flickr.com
my login is kjshoemaker, as if you couldn't guess so as to find the rest of my pics. I'll try to find a link. But, hey, you all are pretty smart. But i've got pretty beaches AND warm ocean water...


***EDIT: apparently if you click on the photo it will take you right to the rest of my pictures at flickr.com. YEAH!!!

Monday, May 01, 2006

"I" (pronounced like the letter 'e')


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Originally uploaded by kjshoemaker.
Your friendly reporter, live (ok, 2 months ago) from vacation in Brazil (on the border, but still technically Brazil here) at the world famous Iguacu Falls.
Interestingly, the word is really just Iguacu. Why, because "I" (pronounced like the letter 'e') means water.
Why is this interesting? Because the word for water in the spot in Indonesia I work in is, yup - you guessed it, "I" (pronounced like the letter 'e')

Patience and expectations

Motorcycles whiz by, each expecting the other to slow down.
Driving carefully, big and white, surely looking like a clown.
All expect the other to stop and wait, confident they don't want to die,
but none realize that the other thinks it too, so really they believe a lie.
Waiting for things that are better than good,
waiting for things sometimes misunderstood,
waiting for the time when I am who I am,
waiting patiently, eating grass, stupid little lamb.
I cannot wait but must,
counter-intuitively I trust,
knowing mistakes made do not end,
knowing some messages I am not ready to send,
knowing it is only my will that must not break but bend,
knowing that I'll live longer and wiser if I wait and follow rules I too recommend.

rainbows


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Originally uploaded by kjshoemaker.
are quite beautiful, don't you think?

on the boat


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Originally uploaded by kjshoemaker.