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Life Changes

April 29, 2024

My oldest son has moved back in with us for about 6 months. He and his wife are divorcing. The current place they have is

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April 2024 Reading

April 26, 2024

Neve, cane, piede- Claudio Morandini  (2016) Story of an old mountain man/hermit, Adelmo Farandola, who hates being around others. He lives alone high up in an alpine valley,

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My Brother Charles

April 22, 2024

My oldest brother passed away sometime early sunday morning. He was 68.   After my mom passed away a few years ago, I thought it would be a

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.