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This really says it all. My conversation with our food editor as we left the fair after walking around for 3 hot hours, sampling fried foods:

CP: "I feel sticky."

Food Ed: "I feel sticky on the inside."
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from my 24-hour personal retreat]]> Lizzie . . . http://courtneyperry.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry080925-224414

. . . ready to snap at a moment's notice
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It will be very hard to face the photo department without them.

Mei Chun (left), Richard (right), Erich, David and Walter---you WILL be missed. We love you.

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Pics on the drive from Midland to Alpine. Before getting pulled over. Before the cops showed me the photo of the 7-foot 4-inch bull snake they had just found dead on the 2-lane highway. Before I got off with only a warning. Before I listened to this song:

Oh troubled heart
Always looking for release
Troubled mind
Wanting just to find some peace

The roads you choose now
Are but guides to show the way
So mark your path ahead of you
And take time to stray

We choose the life we make
Each hope and each mistake

You might not know you're home 'till you've landed
Fight as you may to understand it
When you let go of how you planned it
Your two feet may tell you where you're standing

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RNC, thou hath wrought havoc upon me.]]> la danza de la lluvia http://courtneyperry.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry080821-082959

Something happened last weekend that hadn't happened in a long time . . .]]> on the way back from Austin . . . http://courtneyperry.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry080819-153753



Driving back to Dallas from Austin. Just get into view of the skyline. See black smoke. Stop. A house fire. Thankfully, the 70-ish-year-old owner is not home, but I'm afraid he'll be quite sad when he gets there. Neighbors try to fight the blaze with garden hoses. A noble but futile effort.]]> all-pervasive sky http://courtneyperry.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry080815-142218

colors so deep they are felt, touched, tasted . . .]]>