Improbable Possibilities |
The sun's already set. It has entered another land. Left us and introduced itself to others. Folks we see in newspaper pictures, television transmissions. My daydreams are often, if not totally, c...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:07:00 GMT |
Preliminary Healing |
Isolation is illness. Absolutely. Completely. Be good to those around you. Welcome them. Embrace them with arms and with your spirit.Our only way through life is with one another.Through pain, di...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:51:00 GMT |
A silly man writes silly words for the whole silly world! |
Been a long time. Such a long time and it's still hard to set words down. To acquiesce and indulge myself once more in digital permanence. It's a Tuesday evening. Sweaty. Our graceful electric fan rub...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:07:00 GMT |
A Wind Has Been Blowing Today |
I wear hats so my hair does not do horrible and horrific things. But, perhaps, I shouldn't care. Winds will blow strong and sometimes my hats are lifted into the sky and I mutter a quick curse. My ...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:38:00 GMT |
A Baker's Dozen ( times three! ) |
Can we have a hallelujah? How about three dozen! I hope we can, and we will, you know?! Today is our everything! Today is our only breath! And we have this second, this whole moment, to embrace o...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:00:00 GMT |
9/25/06 |
Just for fun. For the freedom to change channels, observe scripted grins, deaths, divorce. Freedom to buy another compact disc. Turn it up! Drive on into ever setting suns. A dusk dawning every s...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:54:00 GMT |
A Lovely Game of Twister |
* * *TODAY'S ADVENTURE . . . In which Ryan lays thought on too thick, or not thick enough, depending, of course, on how terribly, or successfully, the following sentences are interpreted and understoo...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:40:00 GMT |
Reception |
"...as the thinker receives and gives a thought,as the singer sings in the common air." - Wendell Berry, from "Some Further Words"Who responds to the pen tapping paper?The echo of pressed ke...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:00:00 GMT |
This is it. And so much more. |
Forget the bricks, the mortar, the sacred stained glass. Forget the American flag propped next to the baptismal. Forget the wooden pews, the clothes, the fancy power point presentations. It's you a...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:04:00 GMT |
Cheers! |
Return to Chicago. Quiet streets of Lincoln Square. Strange how silent. Cat is alive and well. Yesterday the drizzling grey morning walking cobbled streets toward Leesom St. Bus direct to Dubli...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:38:00 GMT |
