February 2012
9 posts
“It takes a rare, dispassionate intelligence to see the self from outside, a...”
– Jane Rule
Validation
In the streets everyday, walking people with running lives, people who I recognize quite easily - complex, scarred, courageous, funny, inadequate, but trying.
Is that me?
Is that you?
The Circular Coincidence
I am reading this great post-modern autobiographical fiction (an oxymoron, I know. We all know) written by French-Canadian author Clark Blaise called “I had a father”, who talks about his complicated and conflicting relationship with his father through descriptions of all those places he has been in his life, always chasing something more than what he hoped for. The book isn’t...
Love, please come my way
Dusty memories
Long forgotten words
Only spoken yesterday,
Or was it a day or two ago
Of all things fixed in
the receding stones of time
All I recall is the red and good wine
And a passionate yearning
For just that word
you know, happiness,
Feel effects of it
Like the glorious sun
On a silky ginger fall afternoon
Like warm crusted pies
tantalizing the front of your tongue
Like...
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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all you know on earth, and all you need...”
– John Keats
“The glamorization of militaristic nationalism in America mirrors European...”
