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    <title>Gather: Articles by Nick Y.</title>
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    <description>Recent Articles on Gather by Nick Y.</description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:29:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>and so I am free</title>
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      <description>all of the things that keep me up at night 
 will pass away before I do 
 life is full of things 
 some things make me glad  
 and some make me sad 
 but aren’t they all just one big nuanced thing 
 along . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:20:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-08-29T11:20:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>then things changed...</title>
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      <description>He was a man who felt like a small boy inside a man’s body 
 it worked out okay for him this way for the first 38 years 
 he was comfortable and cared for  
 he chose not to confront many adult realities . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:49:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-08-23T12:49:40Z</dc:date>
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      <title>so much sweeter for the knowing</title>
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      <description>I have so many advantages 
 I am on an unbalanced playing field 
 my life is as easy as falling out of bed 
  
 I was almost rich once 
 but now thats gone away 
 people are after me 
 they want their . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:45:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-30T14:45:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>hold on to joy</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977399270</link>
      <description>life is a poem 
 pain, joy, anger, love, hurt, wholeness 
 all things are necessary 
 but choose to let your energy flow to the ones that work for you 
  
 hold on to joy 
 let go of hurt 
 fulfillment . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:36:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-16T14:36:21Z</dc:date>
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      <title>what are the odds of that happening?</title>
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      <description>I lay next to you   

  your heart touches my heart  

  I am so at home with you  

  the person that I am when I am with you is the best version of my self that I know  

  I don't have to . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:41:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-13T16:41:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I live it in love</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977396834</link>
      <description>this moment  

  is all I have  

  it belongs to me  

  this moment  

  is precious to me  

  when it's gone   

  it's gone forever  

  this day is my day to live here on earth in . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:38:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-13T16:38:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>thank you Jen</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977396831</link>
      <description>I wake up again with thoughts of you  

  warm and excited  

  I am feeling so much for you  

  it will be one week tomorrow since we first met  

  it seems like I've known you all my life  
 . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:35:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-07-13T16:35:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Oh Love</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977385214</link>
      <description>Oh love  

  oh love  

  a white hot star has landed in my life  

  two days!  

  I have never felt this before  

  I have loved before  

  but not with such immediate intensity  

  her form   . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:12:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-29T14:12:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>beautiful balance</title>
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      <description>knowledge of my mortality 
 gives me a perspective on life 
 a little more serious  
 if only because I feel the importance of each moment 
 nothing should be waisted 
  
 mistakes will be made of course . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:53:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-24T12:53:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>It's not all fireworks and infatuation</title>
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      <description>There is fog on the bay this morning 
 thick and white and intimate 
 hiding the distances and softening the colors 
  
 I just woke up 
 I need a nap 
 Noele cooked dinner at her house last night 
 really . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:46:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-20T13:46:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I will not settle for less than this</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977376135</link>
      <description>I think perhaps I am asking too much from [life] 
 do I expect to meet someone wonderful? 
  
 seems they are few and far between 
 I may never meet a mate that is right for me 
 one who is sexy and smart . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:27:29 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-18T04:27:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>love thine enemies</title>
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      <description>love thine enemies 
 the ones who hurt you the most 
 feel the pain 
 each moment matters 
 even under the dentist's drill 
  
 my life is precious 
 I will live, I must live 
 in love 
  
 I grew . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:05:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-16T13:05:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How do I think of women?</title>
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      <description>How do I think of women? 
 are they people or objects 
 I feel drawn to them but when I get close I feel disappointed, even repulsed 
 I think of women primarily in terms of sex 
 there is some kind of . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:58:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-14T05:58:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The City Meets the Sea</title>
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      <description>I live in a place of great beauty and mild ugliness. I live at the edge of a giant city, where the city meets the sea. All cities are toxic and they can't help poisoning whatever they touch. So the . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:30:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-10T13:30:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>LOVE</title>
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      <description>Life is a poem 
 sometimes a dark poem 
 sometimes a stupid and wasteful poem 
 sometimes it is a very beautiful poem 
 the greatest poetry in the world is love 
 love is what we are all seeking 
 it is . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:01:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-05T06:01:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The end of regret (the beginning of love)</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977361115</link>
      <description>The end of regret 
 the beginning of honesty 
 moving forward  
 no looking back 
 I was dragging a huge sack of the past behind me 
 now I look at each moment and feel totally present 
 I feel alive and . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:26:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-04T13:26:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Be Honest. Tell your self the truth.</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977360266</link>
      <description>Be Honest. Tell your self the truth. 
 What is real? 
 What do you believe? 
 Separate what you wish were true from what you know to be true. 
 No wishful thinking. 
 No seeking comfort in fairy tails. . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:17:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-06-03T13:17:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>into the light, into the truth...</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977333105</link>
      <description>Hmmmmm..... 
  
 Getting better? Seems like it's becoming more comfortable to be alone 
  
 I don't know 
  
 I have positive people in my world  
  
 I have people a situations that bring me great . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:38:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-27T10:38:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>What I am feeling as I spend some time being alone</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977331907</link>
      <description>shame (feeling that others will judge me or assume there is something wrong with me because I am not in a relationship) 
 self hate 
 inadequacy  
 insecurity 
 pain 
 sadness (feeling unwanted) 
 lack . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:13:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-25T13:13:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Death Poem</title>
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      <description>grey cloudy sky  

  splash of red bleeding into the cloth  

  split by knife hook up the belly  

  despair of mouths that drip honey on the carpet  

  flies stick to lips  

  legs locked in rigor . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:15:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977327855</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-20T13:15:51Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Another Sunrise</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977307644</link>
      <description>Another sunrise...  

  I see so many of them these days  

  I suppose that a life that is full of challenges and learning and growth and joy and heartbreak can cause some restless nights  

  at least . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:11:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977307644</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-11T13:11:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>What is a life worth?</title>
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      <description>How do we settle our accounts with the people that we have loved and lost? 
  
 People hurt people; 
 My wife hurt me and threw me away like a piece of trash.  
 I hurt Linda and Val. I drew them in with . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:25:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-08T05:25:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>A Difficult Experience</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977303798</link>
      <description>I just got back from Alex's 18th birthday party at Becky's (my) house. 
  
 Doug was there. I am hurting from the experience. 
  
 I got to hang out with Bradley. That was great. But I was . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:44:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977303798</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-07T12:44:08Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Alone III</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977302271</link>
      <description>Who knows the path I should take? 
 do I trust my self to find the right way? 
  
 I am standing alone in the world 
 that is all anyone can do 
 we are all alone for all time and for ever 
  
 we may . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:10:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-05T12:10:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I am getting closer to who I actually am</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977301490</link>
      <description>Things are changing  

  for the better  

  married to Becky for 10 years  

  put me on a path   

  a pattern  

  nightclubs and restaurants  

  spending money  

  flashy, fake  

  focus . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:11:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977301490</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-04T14:11:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>character ID-page: Female Love Interest to my Leading Man</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977300655</link>
      <description>her life is in balance  

  she works with something creative and artistic  

  she may be a painter or a sculptor  

  she lives near the ocean   

  she swims regularly for exercise  

  her style . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:39:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977300655</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-03T12:39:58Z</dc:date>
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      <title>My Ideal Self</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977299804</link>
      <description>my life is in balance 
 my music program is successful and growing with four teachers teaching full schedules 
 I teach ten classes a week 
  
 I am performing in clubs three nights a month 
 I am creative . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:09:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-02T12:09:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>For Jen #2</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977298648</link>
      <description>Home alone 
 it's been an active time 
 seems like I have been drinking too much lately 
 Had a crazy day on Saturday 
 band rehearsal with the girls  
 had some beers with an old friend who is vary . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:24:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977298648</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-04-01T04:24:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Voice of God in my Head</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977297088</link>
      <description>Something is about to happen  

  the sand is shifting  

  my life has been moving in a direction for some time  

  now I feel the wind has shifted  

  my fortunes are going to change  

  because . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:28:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977297088</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-03-30T13:28:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>I hugged my ex</title>
      <link>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977296414</link>
      <description>I hugged my ex 
 My heart is a mystery to me 
 how can this be? 
 I have spent two years hating her with every cell in my brain 
 but now  
 like a flipping a switch 
 the hate is gone 
  
 all the shit . . .</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:57:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977296414</guid>
      <dc:creator>Nick Y.</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-03-29T15:57:17Z</dc:date>
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