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Let’s Create Some Beauty

David Price
3 min readNov 24, 2021

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Ateeq Ahmed, Fireflies captured with a long exposure camera.

Today I went to Dunkin’ Donuts and saw a clearly homeless guy sitting on the side of the road and picking up change. Eventually I saw him stroll into Dunkin, as he was counting his change to buy something I began to get super annoying and talked to him over and over again even when he didn’t really want to talk. Since he had maybe $1 in change I bought him a coffee and bagel and asked him to sit down with me.

He told me a lot about how people are usually very mean to him because he’s homeless, how drugs turned him into the person he hated, he lost his mom to cancer, he never knew his dad and he just wants to be someone his mom would be proud of (along with another hours worth of conversation.)

Handing me a crumpled up receipt he apologized for having shaky hand writing, smiled, and left. I opened his note…. ‘I wanted to kill myself today, because of u I now do not. Thank u, beautiful person.’ “

— Casey Fischer

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When you talk about the masculine, which style of the masculine are you talking about? Are you talking about Old Cronos Saturn who would eat his own children lest they ever challenge his authority?….

And if you look towards myth you can also be blown away by the colorful array and variety of the masculine figures. What about Jonah who went into the belly of a

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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