Say goodbye to Alexandria leaving... |
Sitting in a cafe on a balmy Easter night...I am established at a hotel, prepared to embark tomorrow morning on a solo exploration of Louisiana's longest trail. Being down in the Deep South is like vi...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:19:00 GMT |
A Statement of Simplest Gratitude |
Four years ago, on the day after election day, I quoted Bob Marley's "Natural Mystic" to sum up what I felt: "Did you hear the first trumpet? Might as well be the last. Many more will have to die. Man...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:25:00 GMT |
The east wind sighs, the fine rains come. |
"Brutus, thou sleeps’t. Awake. Brutus, thou sleeps’t. Awake." - William Shakespeare
The above comes from an anonymous letter (actually written by Cassius) to Brutus...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:53:00 GMT |
Something I feel is important... |
Tonight at 7 on MSNBC, Keith Olbermann is going to speak about the recent terrorism bill that President Bush just signed - a law that, in effect, ends our right to habeus corpus; though we may never p...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:17:00 GMT |
Swept into sleeping by the hum of a rainstorm |
Today's had a happy beginning. My heat came on in my apartment, and it felt very good. I had HOT shower (something that's been far from a certainty). My cup of coffee was perfect.&nb...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:37:00 GMT |
True love leaves no traces. |
It's cusp time - frost time. I've been sick for two weeks. I feel trapped in my body, unable to transcend coughing at dawn, spitting things out that don't float. There's poetry to th...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:05:00 GMT |
A pseudo-intellectual's adventure in Chicago. |
I live in Chicago now...I can't sleep in the afternoons anymore (there is too much of a buzz). My apartment was once an old hotel, and I feel very at ease there.
Funny, I thought I had something...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:37:00 GMT |
And we won't go home when it rains. |
And with a bow, I take my leave.Another end of another year. They are flowing like water now. There's a bittersweetness to this that I find ultimately very poetic.Anything to add a few lines to the bo...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:37:00 GMT |
Late afternoon, Coastal Range |
Patricia and I are searching for Forsythe Park, Savannah. The air is hot, pleasantly humid, and we are far from home, sitting in a library.
Tonight - backpacking on the coast.
Posted by on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:35:00 GMT |
A brief hello from the earth's rim: |
It's been a long time since I've written here. It's all been great, really, blurry, full of soft rain, wind. Went on holiday to SF, spent Christmas with the lovely Patricia (and her madre)...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:26:00 GMT |
