There are some faces that you will never forget ( Read more... )

For whatever reason while washing the dishes and getting ready for bed tonight, I was thinking about what the purest kinds of pursuits were. It's not a discussion I could really add much to or I think I can resolve. It's been raging at the very least since Plato and Aristotle, and who am I compared to them? But that's what I was thinking about ( Read more... )

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You'll have different relationships in your life. Some will end with a bang. Others will fade away quietly. They can last any varying amount of time. Minutes. Hours. Days. Months. Years. Some will fizzle into the nothingness from where they began, never to be resurrected. Sometimes because you let them. Sometimes because they just slip ( Read more... )

Maybe it's human nature. When bad things happen, I find myself tracing back my steps trying to pinpoint every possible point of deviation that could have brought me to some other conclusion. Not only are those points much and varied, but they are infinite. There's nothing like a Saturday afternoon car accident in the middle of summer to really ( Read more... )

So today was the last day of business for the Daily Grind. I drove by after leaving the studio. It looks pretty much the same like it always does at night, like the end of so many other days. I took a picture with my phone. The porch is lit. Beyond the windows it's mostly shadows. Above is all dark except for the glowing red and white letters ( Read more... )

It's a good time of day at a good time of year for the kind of thinking I'm doing now. It's coming up on one year since I've been with Amara. Dates. Anniversaries ( Read more... )

The last time I started anything like this, I was in very different circumstances, a completely different stage of my life. Reinvention never goes out of style though. And I think I might need a little bit of that ( Read more... )

The clock and my body is telling me one thing. My mind is telling me another. I'll listen to it tonight. It deserves a chance. And what better time than now when I can hear the rain off the aluminum siding weaving through the rhythm of keystrokes and everyone else is lost in their sleepy lulls ( Read more... )

I was asked not that long ago if I considered myself successful. The question caught me off guard, if anything out of its sheer directness. My mind went in all different directions but given that the setting was a job interview I managed to calmly say, "Yes," without much hesitation. (I got the job but then quit after two days and am still ( Read more... )