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Monday, September 18, 2006 

Wart & Peace by Clint

Today was a good day. I uprooted a wart that has been waxing and waning on my finger for the past six months. After several different methods of removal, I decided to try the straight application of salicylic acid. That treatment started two days ago. The bottle, being a puny entity, suggested a single drop be applied twice a day and proceeded to claim it would be a journey of about five weeks.

That is all well and good, but what of the microwave generation that wishes the fungi removed about 4.7 weeks sooner?

Needless to say I drowned the wart in acid like a drunkard drowns his sorrows--straight, for two days, and to the disregard of loved ones' behests.

By this evening, the infected area had softened up. Probably not anywhere near enough to remove even the top-most epidermal layer, but since when has raw meat not-yet-ready to be partaken of really stood in my way? So, I grabbed my trusty pin needle and pair of tweezer and set to poke-tweeze-repeat mode.

I hurt. I bled. I got light-headed. I physically removed all empirical traces of the wart.


I now have a crater in my finger reminiscent of high-altitude photographs of strip mines. It's a lack I love. I would do it all over again if I had the chance--masochistic satisfaction, friends. In fact, I cherish the moment so much, I chose to continue it and even memorialize it through a little something I like to call art.



Wow.

I too remember the satisfying days when one has oft applied one's shade-tree wart remover to arrive at the pinnacle moment of wrangling, pleading, prying the insidious rogue cells from the body. A real purging triumph...fulfilling in many arenas.

Congratulations, wart-less friend.

Such imagination - I never would have seen a tree in that, or a mouth. Bravo!
Kara

Nicole,
I can't believe clint let you do that to yourself.

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Listening

  • Halos + Lassos - Half-Handed Cloud


  • Lost and Safe - The Books


Watching

  • How Should We Then Live? - Dr. Francis Schaeffer & Frank Schaeffer


  • True Romance - Tony Scott


  • Murderball - Dana Adam Shapiro & others


Reading

  • The Once and Future King - T. H. White


  • Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading - Eugene H. Peterson


  • Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin - Cornelius Plantinga


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