As bad as I felt last night at this time is as good as I feel tonight. What a difference, as they say, a day makes. I have just rattled off over 3,000 words (~12 pages) tonight, in a remarkably…
Category: Awareness is Never Enough – It Must Always Be Wonder
It All Makes Sense
This post is an antidote, a message in a bottle, a documentation of a sensation and a perception about the world that is here and irrevocable. It’s something that I may lose, but no one can take away from me.…
When the World is Silent, the Mind Comes Alive
Twice a week, I drive to New Brunswick from Princeton, a 16-mile jaunt that usually takes over half an hour to complete because of the nature of driving in New Jersey. I head up there in the 8:00 hour to…
Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine
Today (defined loosely as from noon yesterday till right now), I: Took delivery on a flat-screen television, which will hopefully never have network or cable TV thereon. Spoke to my parents on the phone. Listened to Barack Obama’s speech and……
Out Here in the Fields
There is a quiet communion about the world as it is meant to be. I write this while sitting in a pasture, llamas in the distance, gentle winds overwhelming the wheaty grasses of the Central Valley of California. Not connected…
Glide Series Finale
Last night, I had one of the most transparent dreams of my entire life. Fresh from some emotional goodbyes at Glide in real life, I dreamt that a bunch of people I knew in my life, consisting primarily of Glide…
A Poem on the Journey Homeward (or: Something Other than Duck and Cover)
I finished a book tonight that would’ve been more fitting to finish on my last day of work and it was all I could really think about as I was walking home from the train doing one of those walking…
Our Month with Cancer
One month ago tomorrow, Emily and I were driving up from Fresno and talking about life and her family. We’d just spent a restful New Year’s weekend with a partial incarnation of the Garin Clan and noticed that her Mom…
Cleanup on Aisle 6
Coming up from the train this morning, I walked my usual path through Powell Street Station, winding to the right and up the mini-escalator to a little landing before the second mini-escalator. On said landing were two orange cones, pretty…
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There’s this great scene in a recent great movie (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) about timing and the house-of-cards nature of our worlds. One thing bounces just the wrong way, leading to another thing bouncing just the wrong way,…