This is where I dump many random thoughts, true, but each piece here has origins in life around me.
It has been rare that a Facebook post made it to my blog. Normally, the direction of flow is the other way. Here, however, is one that originated there as a musing sketch… Have you noticed that in, I will unoriginally call it, “The Religious Experience,” people always describe some kind of “soul death” in … Continue reading “No Surrender”
Is not always what it may seem to be. If you have more freedom, you also face more challenges. We might think that an incarcerated being has many more barriers, but look at the size of the rooms and buildings in which they remain. Now, look at the size of your own freedom to travel. … Continue reading “Freedom”
In the hospital emergency corridor everything was too brilliant and I did not want to look down at my body. I could not feel it. I could not move it. The physical pain was gone. But a horror much worse had replaced the pain. A million knives ice and fire, electrified, would have felt better. … Continue reading “I Thought I Was Dead”
I have had many of epiphanies. So when I say “The” epiphany, I mean to single this one out as something particularly magnificent. Epiphanies seem to come in a sequence, each one unlocking new possibilities, but also seemingly never ending, no resting place, always moving. Yet finally, now, a break away from orbit new knowing! … Continue reading “The Epiphany”
I must apologize for the absurdly long break. My health received several lightening strikes: I ground the side of my face into some decomposed juniper sleeping in Tuolumne after being blinded and burned from no sunglasses all day, yet I didn’t know I was so affected and failed to wash my face the next day … Continue reading “I Am Back”
I am having adventures faster than I can write about them. I am kind of a sweet and happy Jack Kerouac. A voyeur, merely, like he, but I accept it. He was, of course, a better writer. I am pretty mechanical. Like he, I want to maximize the info per word. I am annoyed by … Continue reading “Getting Ready To Go Out Again”
Since I’ve been having random sneezing and coughing fits, I have not been Ubering. This means I have not made enough to pay for my next week’s rental! No, I am not up to any 12 hour day make up days, either. More like 6. Not feeling quite well yet. It is not only potential … Continue reading “Storing Old Junk Is Like Wearing Old Tattoos”