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jacob silverman's avatar

You are pretty much settling into a more consistent writing style now. I have noticed that happens, on Substack. You settle down into your regular thing. I on the other hand..... I am The Great Poet. Yes! Me!!!! I am not "jacob" of jacob's Newsletter! I am space! I am eternity! I am ...... ("arrrrg....." great poet dies....)

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curious butterfly's avatar

You are quite literate and you mentioned being proficient at geometry, I think you've got the 3 ARRRS down. You might be a pirate. Buradan sonsuzluğa!

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jacob silverman's avatar

I searched ARRRS and got nothing but I searched the other and I got a Turkish musician. Then I got a warning about a Trojan virus, which was a little unnerving. It sounds like some sort of musical instrument. Also there is similar instrument used in Greece that is a sort of a violin type thing. I actually had one of those because my parents went to Greece and bought it for me. I could not play it, though. I played guitar then.

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curious butterfly's avatar

I wonder what kind of instrument it was. Perhaps a bouzoukia, a relative of the bağlama from Turkey.

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Amazing synchronicity from this article, wow! The comment I just posted to you about Xanga, the girl who I became friends with went to New York, from a West Coast town where we are from and where I went to elementary school!! The school was just the type of community described in the article, with generations of kids attending, where I have fond memories of learning what numbers were and how to write my first sentences, and I made friends with Meaghan and Tiffany. It is a pity some greedy folks got away with destroying the school and all the 70 year old trees to build a new campus. The trees at my school were lifelong friends. We grew up together and I'd look to see how much they had grown whenever I drove by. There was a place next to the school called Miracles Café where we would go on Saturday mornings for waffles with powdered sugar and a strawberry smoothie with whipped cream, we'd play checkers and they had live guitar music.

"Heartbreak is inevitable; joy is not. So when you have a moment to savor something special, even if it is fleeting, even if it is ending, it is a reason to smile."

Yes that's my childhood in a small coastal town and also Substack where I've met wonderful people. It is a reason to smile. :)

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