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There are corners in my mind reserved for you and it makes me wonder, “how many corners can a mind have?” My mind is a polyhedron and you occupy so many corners it has to keep expanding. At a meeting, she sits across from me, careful not to look anyone… Continue Reading Sunday Morning
“What do you want to know?” “I want to know the secret source of your sorrow.” He says it plainly enough, but I feel my tongue clamp to the roof of my mouth. I smile, look away, pretend to be thinking. He gently takes me off the hook with a… Continue Reading Secret Sorrow
Nick
For tomorrow, or tonight, or heck, why not right now? Post here or on yer own blog, exactly 100 words on “Fragility”. I’ll be back with mine. To inspire you: “…when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have… Continue Reading 100 Words Challenge
It is 1976 and my white hair falls well below my shoulders, skimming the floor and picking up dust when I lean under the bed to pull out the photo album. I run the pads of my fingertips over the front of the album, across the face of the foal… Continue Reading Photo Album
Ah Eden. Paradise lost. Was it ever real or merely a construct of human imagination, a place created in the mind to explain and ease our suffering? A past and future promise that there is a place we can return if only we get “it” right. Yesterday I discovered that… Continue Reading 100 Words on Eden
Oh my god, you thought I died or something, didn’t you? Nope. I’m still alive and kicking, but my wrist did almost fall off this week, and my head did almost explode, and my well-being did fall down a slippery slope, but that’s another story. And holy batman readers,… Continue Reading 100 Words – Hidden Spark OR Velvet Verbosity isn’t Dead Yet
Good morning! I am inexplicably delighted that it is Tuesday. Perhaps because Tuesday is not Monday. Perhaps I am still riding high on the good news of a friend. Perhaps because I am just poking my head out of a long, blue funk, and I always feel hopelessly hopeful (hehe,… Continue Reading 100 Words – Openings
Who are these, my teachers? Not who I expected them to be. Not who anyone expected them to be. Lessons learned on love from a triad and a single journeying man. Lessons learned on parenting from a teenage boy. Lessons learned on patience from an angry, venomous girl. Lessons… Continue Reading 100 Words – Lessons
First, let me just get this out of the way. I got carded the other day. Not just carded. When I handed the guy my license, he laughed and said, “Wow!”. When I asked what the “Wow” was for, he said, “Nothing. I just wasn’t expecting, you know, 1970. I… Continue Reading Watercolors? Who Knew?
Nick
I miss you. I miss your gentle grace, your smooth passion. I miss the deep, cool darkness of your mind, your whole delicious rumpled self. I miss the kisses on the backs of my knees, on the insides of my elbows, and the wonder filled curious touch of your slender… Continue Reading The Tremble in Our Bones
