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Monday, November 27, 2006
Finding The Guru (from "A Slip Of The Tongue")
I've been wearing this mood ring
wondering about my emotions and about how out of control I am with myself. my mother-in-law left this morning for Benson after several arguments and misunderstandings forever to be left to the objective observers to decide who was right and who was wrong. here's the scenario: I'm a drunk and my mother-in-law is an imaginative OCD and my wife feels trapped in this small 1400 square foot apartment. somehow we are raising three children. yesterday I was at the Double Tree hotel (really a corporate hurrah hurrah) and I ended up at the lobby gift shop. there was this guy there named J. and we started talking about my problems at home and he told me that I should express to my wife and my mother-in-law what kind of man I really am. thinking of lions in Africa I nodded to him and left the gift shop. when I went home that night the tension swam in pools of wine and sharp tongues. now my mother-in-law is home and I am too. but as I am sitting here wondering about gurus and chance encounters I am also wondering about what it really takes to come to terms with an angry mother-in-law and what I will have to do to make this family work.
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