I’m exhausted: physically, mentally and emotionally. And truthfully, that is not a bad thing. What is keeping me going is a spiritual experience I’ve been embracing. I know corny. Especially considering that I’m agnostic. Probably….I think. Which, if you’ve been paying attention at all, is consistent with most of my life: a belief in something greater than myself and… [Read more…]
December 3, 2011
Still one of my favorite things I’ve written in the last 12 months. It is All here. I turn my back. The Wind whispers poetry and passionate promises through Her riggings. She needs Him. Her love and passions are unconditional. Unquenchable.I look toward the sea and the Grace moored. Flags buffeted by the salt air… [Read more…]
November 28, 2011
Estrangement alienation: separation resulting from hostility alienation: the feeling of being alienated from other people estranged – alienated: caused to be unloved estranged – Having become a stranger, of one who formerly was close, as a relative, friend, lover, or spouse to arouse especially mutual enmity or indifference in where there had formerly been love,… [Read more…]
June 13, 2011
My grandfather died last August. His death significantly changed my worldview. Ralph’s death helped me see the mythology of my family is not the reality. And honestly, it pissed me off. It pissed me off because for the first time I was able, with the guidance of a caring but uninvolved friend, to see the… [Read more…]
December 2, 2009
Every day in school was not about education or learning but rather it was about getting enough air while not being seen. Everything I did in school was about trying to survive.
December 3, 2011
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