The Curse of Idealism

What’s interesting about my perspective in contrast with others’ perspectives is that perception is often a long long way from reality. And the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve really realized that my sadness comes from my idealism.…

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This Desert Life

I find I have less and less to say with my own voice. The wide applicability of that comment is hard to underestimate. Most music is dying for me, but the few songs that aren’t say everything I could possibly…

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Hope

“Get busy living or get busy dying. That’s goddamn right… I find I am so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel,…

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For the Last Time

I am doing your dishes for the last time trying not to drop tears or nasal runoff into the too-hot soapy water I see each crack groove, nick, chip, scratch in each plate and could tell you where it’s from…

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…It Pours

This is getting absurd. The Counting Crows show was a great experience overall, despite manifesting as an emotional woodchipper that forced me to hysterical tears during at least six songs. I’ll write up that whole situation at some point –…

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When it Rains…

A prevailing theory behind the recent series of events to befall my life is that I am actually the living incarnation of the Biblical figure Job. Suffice it to say that this theory just got a big boost from recent…

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Fugue State

Humans are adaptable creatures. This is usually cited as a great strength of our ridiculous species, a reason for hope and even celebration as we embark on conquering new vistas and narrowing distant horizons. And yet there are great drawbacks…

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Submitted Without Comment

Our conversation was short and sweet It nearly swept me off-a my feet And I’m back in the rain, oh, oh And you are on dry land You made it there somehow You’re a big girl now Bird on the…

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Paving the Past

“Well you can fall for chains of silver and you can fall for chains of gold you know you fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold well you promised me everything and then you promised me thick and…

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