The Maniac |
A beautiful piece of wisdom from the luminous British thinker G.K. Chesterton:Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:43:00 GMT |
Chaos Theory For The Holidays |
I've been having a major desert experience for the past six months concerning my faith, and during the holidays, the feelings of dryness and emptiness are all the more pronounced. It's so strange to h...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:42:00 GMT |
Studying Stones |
I am out here studying stonesTrying to learn to be less aliveUsing all of my willTo keep very stillStill even on the insideI've cut all of the pertinent wiresSo my eyes can't make that connectionI am ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:42:00 GMT |
Scary Prediction of 1864 |
It seems Abraham Lincoln was much more prophetic and wise than I had known. Check this out:..I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of m...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:48:00 GMT |
5 Years of Rising From the Ashes |
I'm attaching below Ani Difranco's Self Evident poem, which she wrote a week after 9/11. I happened to be in the audience the first time she performed it. I vividly remember her clumsily reaching into...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:37:00 GMT |
You Are Beautiful |
I've been blessed lately with a new client relationship/friendship. I was hired by a hip-hop artist, K~Swift, to design his logo. Swift happens to be a brilliant slam poet, as well as a great musician...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:04:00 GMT |
Finding My Smile |
There's that wonderful line in the totally under-rated City Slickers where Billy Crystal's wife commands him to go away and "find his smile" so that he can come back to his home and job renewed. It's ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:09:00 GMT |
W O W |
Go Marty McConnell! This is one to reflect over, savor, sip like a fine wine:re:generationat the millennial rolling-over pointbaby boomer one-time-hippiesturned parents across these United States groa...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:56:00 GMT |
Floaty Spaceyness |
While I was with my brother over the weekend, I realized that I'm slooooowly disintegrating. Little pieces of me are flaking off, like the emotional equivalent of roasting in the sun too long and watc...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:31:00 GMT |
Thoughts on Heaven |
a la Andrea Gibson, the sage that she is. This feels particularly apropos lately. When I find my own words, I'll speak those, but for now, The Vox Feminisita will have to suffice."Heaven"At 14 years o...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:28:00 GMT |
