 
   
  
    - abandonment 
- absolution 
- antagonism 
- awaking from a beautiful dream to harsh realities 
- barbed-wire fences 
- breeding indifference 
- broken guitar strings, lost piano keys 
- cement walls and fluorescent lights 
- cognitive dissonance 
- condescension and lack of encouragement 
- deforestation 
- disappearing cultures 
- excessive complaints, and oftentimes our complete failure to recognize privileges 
- feelings of alienation, purposelessness 
- forgotten, marginalized people 
- influence of popular opinion, underdevelopment of ideas and imagination 
- insignificance, but only sometimes 
- intolerance and devaluing of diversity in anything 
- la douleur exquise 
- l'espirit de escalier 
- lonely highways 
- maliciousness and an unwillingness to forgive 
- misunderstandings and quick judgements 
- nostalgia for things that can not be reclaimed 
- premature deaths 
- reluctance towards exploring what is new and unknown 
- remembering and forgetting 
- rooms without books 
- shattered glass 
- that I cannot touch the stars 
- unnecessary competition 
- walls and boundaries 
- when beautiful things lack appreciation 
- wilting flowers 
         sep 6 2010 ∞
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