Earring graveyard revisited |
Over the last few weeks I have stumbled into the earring graveyard a couple of times. One recovered earring presented itself far from the form I remember 28 years prior. This earring, tarnished a bit ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:58:00 GMT |
the human race |
I once read a Brazillian novel called "The Passion According to G.H", in which an upper-class woman finds a cockroach in the maid's bedroom. G.H means genero humano, Portuguese for human race. G.H i...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:25:00 GMT |
cooing and rain |
Its early and I cannot sleep. I awoke in the darkness to the sound of the clock ticking loudly and the morning doves cooing. My mind was working and I couldn't turn it off. I just heard the first pla...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:46:00 GMT |
tonight |
It's hot and sometimes unbearable, almost impossible to breathe. Its always muggy, the air so thick you can see it; thick wet, not thick smog. It's heavy, heavy on the lungs. Some might say sultry a...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:16:00 GMT |
hot days |
Submerged in the body of salted water behind the house, I pretend as though I am a water acrobat. No one is near, no one except the neighbor. Maybe secretly, I am performing for him. I backflip into...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:47:00 GMT |
we're here |
Scout is a badass and as brave as they come! Customs in Portland ROCKS! They took one look at me and my dog and said, "Welcome home, now take that dog for a walk!". Upon going outside the terminal to...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:32:00 GMT |
last day in korea |
April 16, 2007:I awoke this morning at 7:30 after dreaming of naming a son Simon. The sentiment was rather haunting as it carried that memory of the future thing that so rarely occurs in life. By 10:0...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:28:00 GMT |
chet baker and a box i don't have |
Currently in Korea we are experiencing hwang-sa, aka the yellow dust. Hwang-sa is a strange phenomena of dust from the Gobi desert brought to Korea and Japan on an easterly wind. Its rather interestin...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:21:00 GMT |
gift giving |
Whilst in university I took many theory classes, one of which was social theory and focused on the majors: Marx, Engles, Durkheim, and French anthropologist, Marcel Mauss (1872-1950). Mauss's most in...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:05:00 GMT |
acceptance |
After a 16 months of working with the same group of children I am bidding them farewell to move on to the next chapter. The past few weeks have had me preparing for this departure and everyday I have...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:50:00 GMT |
