* Learn to shave better
* Try to shave consistently [i.e. every morning even weekends]
* Exercise at least three times a week
* Read five novels or more this year
* Buy less stuff and spend less money
* Tell no or fewer crude jokes [i.e. it is degrading to your character]
* Do not let writing or reading over dramatize or over affect your life
* In ( Read more... )

The morning is here. Slowly wake up little one as you wonder to your car.
Thinking La Dolce vita. Tonight is another night out.
Warm up - go and get coffee
Look up - to see an old man standing by the window of a rundown house
Cheer up - friends are returning:
Before the day clocks in. Sit alone drinking a hot beverage.
The visuals repeat. Live for ( Read more... )

Much has happen lately. I could write about it all, but somehow that seems egocentric and sure to be less than polite conversation. What does one blog about when avoiding self-lust or lust to speak on yourself.
I fear this piece will only ended up being a scatterbrain blog jumping from one subject to another - that just enters from the olde thought ( Read more... )

Dear Mother.
By the time you read this letter, it will have been too late. I will have totally sold out whatever ideals were left by the slow movement of everyday life. There is a certain unbalance to the holding of moral ideals while living a practical life. I thought, perhaps foolishly, that I could just work to survive while I created something ( Read more... )

I was really worried today as my kitten had her surgery. This morning before eight o'clock, we took the car ride to the clinic. She was most impatient having not been fed. I thought if something goes wrong and she dies, it will take years off my life. A great fear to have something so personal...
I would have to have mixed feelings too about the ( Read more... )

Roommates like the Cider on Thursday nights. The raspberry ice tea at the Pub is good. They need a safe ride home.
Keeping busy. Life can be lonely at times. It is part of the human experience, and can be enjoyable with adventures.
Back at the bar just after 12:00 MIDNIGHT, looking around one finds symbolizes of extreme isolation. On the walls ( Read more... )

I have found work to be boring today. I want to finish reading Herodotus The Histories. Xerxes is on the move and the Greeks are starting to unify.
The vastness of the Persian Empire with all it's diversity will come to bear upon, or rather against, Athens and Sparta. I cannot wait to continue the historical narrative this evening.
After reading last ( Read more... )

I am sick. :S
I am sick to my stomach.
...or is that with my stomach.
...or from my stomach.
No, I assume it is from my writing. The need to work on it. A mental thing - I am a head case.
...or maybe I wish it were that way, so I could be an artist. The suffering artist creating something sad and beautiful.
...but, I know that I am just a regular human ( Read more... )

The story - the cold
Peter paints.....oil bars on circles
I write - pretending to have a theme
Stopped before at the tobacco shop
Picked up pipes to smoke in childlike wonder
Adventurous. Making handmade cigarettes
and ate some pie. We pass hours gleefully
Walking in the brisk autumn air.
We sit with music later.
I begin to write to Piano Man.
Pete finds ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I have funny thoughts. I am not a christian, but I went to Peter's relaxed religious gathering on Monday eve. We came up with a discussion of Christ in heaven trying to eat candy. I like to think of god as foolish, due to my own consideration of faith. A happy fool would please me.
Anyways, the idea came from the Jesus M&M joke. We went ( Read more... )