Kenneth: what are you underwhelmed by ( Read more... )

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Warm and dry and safe from the rain, listening to friends make music all day, surrounded by my past, present, and future, feeling so content from head to toe. Loving everyone I saw, wanting to hold them close and thank them for being kind and goodhearted and generous in what they do. Listening to the familiar train careening past, slipping around ( Read more... )

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Best New Year's Day ever!

I hardly use this, but I always look forward to my end-of-the-year surveys. Here are my answers from 2005, 2006, and 20081) Was 2009 a good year for you ( Read more... )

Oh abstractions are just abstract

until they have an ache in them. I met
a woman never touched
gently, and when it ended between us

I had new hands and new sorrow,
everything it meant
to be a man changed, unheroic, floating.

- Stephen Dunn

Sometimes talking to Mose is the only thing that unlocks all these stories I'm sitting on ( Read more... )

"i am okay with living according to vacuous and maybe really faulty logic, if it leads me to beauty"
- mose

For the past two weeks, I've been wrestling with moral questions as my work and reading seems to draw me closer to that which I have been circling up until this point: what do I believe? why do I do the things that I do? why am I driven to the particular path in life that compels me? I think I am getting closer to a preliminary answer, a rough ( Read more... )