Adrift on stormy seas Where is home? It is nowhere and everywhere. It is in the bombed buildings of Sumy in Ukraine. You think - what a beautiful street. Now filled with people fighting to save lives. Broken trees. Blasted walls. A hand sticks out from under a coverlet, to protect the modesty of the … Continue reading Protesting, Week Five
Standing in the snow adds a certain certainty Protesting. This week’s recap. It was snowing today. Almost icy rain, but the sky smiled upon us and rain that had blown through in the early morning was now snow. Easier to hold a paper sign in the snow, although I was splashed by a truck going … Continue reading Protesting, Week Three
A Holiday Post I’m spending a lot of time on the Substack, so have been remiss in posting on the website. But must do both! It’s amazing how free time suddenly becomes a realization of all the things that do get left undone in the day to day of going to work and pretending that … Continue reading To Free Time and Darkness at the End of the Year
Upbeat: cheerful, optimistic Downbeat: pessimistic, gloomy - in music, an accented beat, usually the first of the bar For various reasons, I’m going to start a series of “things” that are upbeat. Things - I do love abstract, blank words - but what else to call them? Articles? Thoughts? I read a piece - there’s … Continue reading Upbeat
I was reading something by Tom Cox, whose writing makes me feel like there is a point to things and began thinking. That is to say, started to organize and categorize all the ideas and thoughts that one wakes up with. The feelings and scenes and characters that sink away, the crash landing from dreams … Continue reading Feed the Birds
A Tale of Two Burgers A short retelling of the ancient legend of burger 1 and burger 2. Once upon a time, there was a small child who had been brought up to eat and drink, while checking carefully for any possible poisons that might have slipped in. This was fairly normal, or so the … Continue reading A Tale of Two Burgers
Happy holidays! There – said that with the requisite amount of enthusiasm. I like the holidays. All the things it is supposed to mean – not the shopping, not the stress – but the actual joy in someone’s face when they are happy for a moment and you helped. The warmth in the face of … Continue reading Mistrals gagnants
2.2.22 Nobody gets the life they intended. It sounds so grim, right? But actually, maybe it’s a good thing. I was reading something about looking at times in your life when good things happened, when there were shifts, and suddenly things changed. To try and look back, and think about what led to those changes. … Continue reading Holding On To
The 20th anniversary of…that day. What a complicated memory. You try not to think about it, but then you do. It’s true what they say, that you remember exactly where you were when you heard. 20 difficult, troubled years – and many of the same problems are the same. Or worse. NYC was never the … Continue reading 20 Years Ago
I'm working on a new blog post, etc. etc. blah blah. While sending work emails for the work that pays the rent. And looking out the window. Always looking out the window. And then I came across this song. It was one of my favorites when I was a teenager. This entire album actually. Albums. … Continue reading Memories and Irony
