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August | 2014 | ordinaryGIANT
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The musings of an ordinary man. August 27, 2014. August 27, 2014. 8220;After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Choke. Waiting for rejection. For the let-down, the “we regret to inform you” form letter. Waiting to be told that your friends and family have been telling you lies; as it turns out, you are not much of a writer after all. Well, the waiting is over. Less about living and more about waiting. At this time...
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I am published. | ordinaryGIANT
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The musings of an ordinary man. November 15, 2014. 8220;They cannot scare me with their empty spaces; between stars – on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.” – Robert Frost. It has been more than two months since I last wrote here. Why the delay? I could blame the lack of posts here on the lack of sleep, or lack of free time, that I have had since my primary task became keeping my child (six months old! Did they hate it, was it that...
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Each breath, a step closer to the finish. | ordinaryGIANT
https://ordinarygiant.com/2015/07/09/each-breath-a-step-closer-to-the-finish
The musings of an ordinary man. Each breath, a step closer to the finish. July 9, 2015. It has been six months since I left the Marine Corps. I own a GPS watch, a decent one at that, the Garmin Forerunner 110. Cheaper, refurbished models. Are another option) which also came with a heart rate monitor chest strap. It tracks distance, pace, elapsed time, lap splits, and heart rate. But it was getting no use without the military forcing me to get up and hit the pavement. The Marine Corps standard of three mi...
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“Riding the Doghouse” by Randy DeVita | ordinaryGIANT
https://ordinarygiant.com/2014/08/20/riding-the-doghouse-by-randy-devita
The musings of an ordinary man. 8220;Riding the Doghouse” by Randy DeVita. August 20, 2014. March 23, 2015. 8220;When you close your eyes, what do you see? Nothing, yet. But the dark stares back. Every time you close your eyes, it sees you.” – Randy DeVita, Riding the Doghouse. Though this story is narrated by a grown man, much of the action takes place in the man’s memory as he recounts summer days spent with his truck-driving father, out on the road. Which was edited by Stephen King. Follow me on Twitt...
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Reading to my son, or: How I Became Mr. Brown. | ordinaryGIANT
https://ordinarygiant.com/2015/03/24/reading-to-my-son-or-how-i-became-mr-brown
The musings of an ordinary man. Reading to my son, or: How I Became Mr. Brown. March 24, 2015. March 24, 2015. BOOM BOOM BOOM, Mr. Brown is a wonder. BOOM BOOM BOOM, Mr. Brown makes thunder. – Dr. Seuss, Mr. Brown Can Moo! My 10-month-old son is beginning to show an interest in books. By Maurice Sendak. Then I ordered The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. To have The Butter Battle Book. So I bought that one, too. And then I bought The Velveteen Rabbit. By Margery Williams, because I rememb...
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About | ordinaryGIANT
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The musings of an ordinary man. Christopher Baumer is the party responsible for ordinaryGIANT. He is a current student in Oregon State’s MFA program and is determined to continue developing his knack for arranging letters well enough to create compelling writing. As a fan of the Oregon State Beavers, the Buffalo Bills, the New York Knicks, and the New York Mets, it is entirely possible that he is the most tortured sports fan in existence. Be a GIANT, and share this! Enter your comment here. Life isn'...
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Poetry, prose, etc. Occasional slips into popular media. It’s hard to dance when you’re not sure if anyone will watch you and then when they do of course you don’t want them to. It’s hard to get in the door, every time, even after years and years of being proud. Are you, really). It’s hard to be alone. It’s hard to catch someone’s eye. But it is ours). Queer: not fitting, sliding in between raising arms trying not to touch others. Wishing they would touch. A bullet is a violation of this). June 14, 2016.
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grief body – #3 | poetry, prose, etc
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Poetry, prose, etc. Occasional slips into popular media. Grief body – #3. 8211; the grief body hoards pain like a refugee twice-traumatized by bombs and rubble. it wants to remember waking up screaming, always. it holds ancestor memory of land gobbled up gas and shells and falling rock. it holds infinite pain ground glass-sharp and fine, greedy to hold it forever. The grief body is tender before it is cruel, but never after. December 1, 2016. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Digging T...
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grief body – #6 | poetry, prose, etc
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Poetry, prose, etc. Occasional slips into popular media. Grief body – #6. The grief body is very tired and wants to go home to forget, but it has to keep working. December 4, 2016. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Brian Marg...
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