Cooler weather triggers vivid nights, busy with colorful dreams. Characters dance behind flickering eyelids – brilliant, startling, flashing, strange and frightening, oddly juxtaposed – unidentified, out of context figures holding hands and wearing masks of monster, friend, animal, god and demon. Waking in the cool dark of morning you know you have slept – […]
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Nothing ever really prepares you for the loss of a loved one—especially a parent. No matter the personal tumult—or tenderness—that you shared over the years, when that moment comes, you will react. For me, the feeling is one of mild numbness and, at the same time, relief. I am definitely sad, but I am also […]
death, grief, parentsBlessed Day
I am thankful for many things in my life, but none more exalted than the fact that several decades ago, a plainspoken Mennonite man and woman brought into this world a beautiful, shining girl child—that I would one day come to call “Rags”. It took several decades after that for our lives to collide, but I […]
Three Things
I looked out of our front window early this morning. Three things – first — the small neighbor girls, who are so curiously enchanted by everything about us — who, using their hands to shade their eyes spied, giggling, through the glass of our front door, stealing a glimpse into the secluded magic that must […]
children, love letter, seasonsFirst Kiss Day (8/5/2006)
I longed for your lips, your love, your body, all that is the reality of you ~ until the time of us arrived. Fire for you has scorched through my veins every moment since. Sweetest Angus, I’ll never forget looking into your eyes that day. We sat at the little table where the embarrassed man […]
kisses, love letters, memoriesSonorous Song of Summer
Their song of love echoes electric — they make instruments of their own bodies. The brooch of their abandoned carapace, a horrific delight. I wore them, proud pins, on my childish clothing and in sun tangled hair, beguiled by their terrible claws and bulging eyes– a bejeweled decoration of hot Summer given to me by […]
gems, history, instruments, love, memories, musicThe Sweet Earth
Today I read there are only 59 adult wolves left in Yellowstone. And f~@#ing Exxon spilled 54,000 gallons of toxic sand tar oil into the Yellowstone River. Perhaps it is better to just go out and wander into her deep heart than despair indoors by reading the news?
The Man With A Camera Phone
“Come outside and look at this weather” “What is that guy doing across the street in the pouring rain, and what is that blue flash coming from his hand?” The sky was full of swirling black and gray, angry and wet. Giant drops fell onto the sidewalk and the wind moaned. The thing the man […]
Technology: The Ghost in My Machine
Ironic as it is, me writing this blog post via my high speed internet connection, I am increasingly disenchanted with all of the frustrations that come with staying on the bleeding edge of high tech this and digital that. Nothing is ever “good enough” to make due for more than a year. Just when one […]
technologyClub Twenty Seven
[frame][/frame] Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Curt Cobain, Amy Winehouse. Talented and troubled. Too young to leave, too pained to live. Shooting stars, enduring consequence.