Inspired by something a friend of mine posted this morning. Every bit of normal is an act of defiance a vain effort to prove that the nothing that mattered yesterday will not matter today and that the living that’s done may somehow carry on because this world we must now get used to is an [...]
It’s hard not to think about. Did you know I was still there? Did you know people loved you? Did you know they came to see you? Did you know we were all looking after you? Did you know you were not alone? Did you know you will always have a home? (28 September 2019) [...]
A sleepy thought from last night. I don’t want a particular place to go I’m looking for somewhere that means something to me I don’t know if I’ll find it because—well, you know… I’ll be happy with someplace to be (25 September 2019—posted September 26) Wishes sometimes have consequences—order now from your favorite [...]
One year later and one month later. Goodnight, goodnight three hundred sixty-five and thirty-one days on You left without a word (at least, the kind I’d recognize) and sleep even now There weren’t many words to the conversation by the time the end arrived We said it all between the lines without questioning There was [...]
Took a few boxes of stuff to Goodwill this afternoon. Yes, I forgot one… I don’t blame myself when I forget the box I packed last night I’ve had the weight of a hiccup in the continuous process we occupy to keep my shoulders hunched and my head down for so long that the lapse [...]
They told me there would be lots of hurry up and wait… I brake for the burn and turn this break in the action is brought to you by an organism lying dormant for 50 years biding its time waiting for the moment to strike Stop. Hold the moment. The choice [...]
Shingles. What the hell?! I’d guess that maybe it’s a reminder to slow down— except things are already at a standstill because that’s the process Or maybe I’ve just said ‘goddammit’ too often lately and this is a lesson in not questioning the Divine Will Either way I’m staying well away from ‘Super Track Urgent [...]
Needs a better title… Present and accounted for thinking about whatever I’m thinking about and not much else I know that wishes sometimes have consequences and I wished that this would all be over soon enough I will live with that but I will understand that there’s more to it all than the wishes that [...]
Closing in on three weeks, and I am still finding these things… There’s not a lozenge to soothe anything but I keep finding them in every purse and pocket in every box and drawer under every cushion Some of them are mints some Brach, some TicTac, some Halls all of them waiting to dissolve into [...]
She would have turned 89 tomorrow… The calendar very helpfully reminds me that tomorrow is her birthday She stopped celebrating years ago but this year she doesn’t get that choice And obviously I’m not going to say anything (10 September 2019) Wishes sometimes have consequences—order now from your favorite local bookstore! IndieBound search: [...]
