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May.20.2013
May 20
Martinizing
The price of upkeep scares me, it daunts me even. I pay the initial cost, I have bitten that bullet of required outlay; the continued charges for maintenance push my face in the mud until my ears clog. Avoiding the need of perpetual...
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May.16.2013
May 16
Life Events in Burlap
Two left feet in a gunnysack allows no forward motion and creates only a windmill that screws us into the ground. There is more perspective, front and back, more view, but nothing to do with it, nowhere to go....
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May.09.2013
May 9
The Little Black Dress
The holes in my pockets cause me to feel naked. Though it is an inside pocket and no one can see through I feel exposed, my thinking changed and for that matter chained, one link looped through the next. I start with a hole...
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May.02.2013
May 2
Reguess
When in my sarcasm I suggested that you ‘guess again’, I realized that you were in fact guessing, guessing about everything, guessing in order to create a process of elimination, a tool on which I now recognize you entirely depend. Guessing as...
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Apr.27.2013
April 27
Blinded
Alcoholism hits me like a kind of blindness. I stagger through the living room cursing anyone who changes familiar placement or published timetables. Just like every aspect of this disease, shocked sightlessness, is mine to deal with. ...
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Apr.05.2013
Nepo says that when he was young he talked fast and loud.
Sometimes, I still do.
What he did not realize until much later in life is that “I kept talking faster and louder to the world around me because I couldn’t hear the world within me.”
A profound sutra.
When I read those words, I...
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Apr.05.2013
April 5
Please Sir
Gratitude is a thing which collects and solidifies, it’s pink and I can walk around on it. Some days it is a broad highway and other times a winding spindling track. Ever present if I am mindful, gratitude roots out pests and pestilence while...
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Apr.03.2013
April 3
Unfettered
“The difference between a demand and a request is apparent to everyone.” A drunk once said this and I hold it to my heart. I can not be bullied or swindled into a corner; neither will I allow you to put a rope around my neck...
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Apr.01.2013
April 1
Why is it so hard to be me?
I have everything I could wish for. I have love and friendship, I have talent and ability. What more could I want? I don’t want more, I want to learn how to overcome fear and live with disappointment. Abundance...
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Mar.30.2013
The princess was young, beautiful, spoke English better than Maggie Smith, carried a smart phone everywhere, and we were her guests. One of the most modern countries in the world, India also remains one of the most traditional. It...
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