Freshman Year at Harvard University

"Weight"

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"beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

so behold,

rossi

Ghosts and Memory

Photo found here.

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A ghost is an apparition, a faint trace of a person that is believed to appear or become manifest to the living. 

In other words, it is the manifestation of memory recalling the existence of a person formerly present.

In the same manner that memory is a shade of the past, a ghost is a shade of one's memory of a person.

Ghosts are very real. They only seem "dead" because they are hazy projections of memory.

They are the authentic living dead.

And I saw one today.

"Josiah"

One should really be amazed at how easily the human brain can invert reality to the extent that memory becomes imagination and the living becomes perceived as already dead.

to my brother Josiah, whom I love,

rossi

Touch Up: One after the Next

Minimalist bed from the collection "Living Divani". Found here.

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Evidently, I am not very up-to-date with the Internet. I know about Facebook, Google, Gmail, and all that is basic. Sure, you may call me a minimalist.

But it's more accurate to say that I can be pretty averse to technology, skeptical at least. For example, during the summer after our freshman year, my boyfriend registered a Skype account for me because I refused. In doing so, he taught me a new French word: "rossignol". According to WordReference.com, this has several meanings, which include "nightingale", "picklock", "bit of junk", and "out-dated merchandise". Unfortunately for me I have a very acute boyfriend who has an even more acute sense of humor. As was the case, all of these definitions pertained to me and were spot on. So there you have it:

"I, Rossi Lamont Walter, Jr., am indeed out-dated merchandise."

Now, slowly but surely, I become integrated with modern times and the fuller functionality of the Internet. I redeployed the Bucket, which you are now reading. I finally got a Flickr account. Through this, I became acquainted more deeply with Picnik. I don't know if I should thank someone or just be content that all of these services are free. I guess I could send a positive user report. I am very fond of those.

Change is change is change, I suppose. At least I keep others updated about my out-dated habits. At any rate, here is a photo taken of my school with my Android phone and edited in Picnik.

"The Yard"

Things just get curiouser and curiouser.

to be continued,

rossi