ITALIA!!!

at least, there is still some excitement. 
I shoot my fireworks for this instead:
Viva Italia!!

The World Cup 2006 is sending waves through Germany and Europe.  What a time to have left...a year before the big party.  USA's only game in K-Town; Brazil's last in Frankfurt.  Frankfurt!  My birthplace for crying out loud!  The semi-finals, 50,000 raging fans, yellow jerseys all around, and alcohol spilling off the sidelines.  No politics.  Just ( Read more... )

A rare sunset from a height I whiz down on wheels almost every day.  The skyline was clearly visible as it occasionally is.  It was a marvel--shortlived--but true.  The way in which the rays shone down on the landscapes of South San Diego Bay differed from a typical, heavenly spectra that exonerates the supreme, benign wrath of the star.  Despite ( Read more... )

And so today my former dark companion revisited me.  El Dolce Bacco, near cousin to my favored Lambrusco, has a sweeter taste than I remember.

Today is the fifty-secpnd Thursday since my high school graduation.  And tomorrow will be one year to the date.  Now that, seems amazingly distant.

Erich Fromm is a great writer:

"Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself; he has awareness of himself, of his fellow man, of his past, and of the possibilities of his future.  This awareness of himself as a separate entity, the awareness of his own short life span, of the fact that without his will he is born and against his will ( Read more... )

Today, I realized something:  that my heart is lost.  Oh, I always feel shamed to reveal these sad, sad ordeals.  I know I'm pathetic.  But I know that I'm worse off lying about not being pathetic than actually being in the act of pathetic-ness itself ( Read more... )

The off-season.  This is what one fears most, I think.  Competition, though intense...is what one lives for.  Who ever says he or she lives for the relief?  Thrive on the (on)season, whether ready or not.  Of course, ready or not, here comes the off-season.  Sigh.  I don't like this.  So undesired.  The long wait...what anticipation.   How cruel it

Today, at 9ish in the AM:

YES!  She's back, mo'fos!!!!!
COI and Marshall's....a chance for figure skating to get back on its feet.
Skating world be relieved, Kwan's return is passion redeemed.

I've done a lot of thinking tonight, and it's not the kind of thinking I like to do.
I had no intention at all of watching any of the World Figure Skating Championships coverage this week, just as I had completely avoided as much 2006 Olympic coverage as I could following the withdrawal of Michelle Kwan.  The absence of Michelle Kwan from Worlds is ( Read more... )