Maybe I feel too lighthearted to think seriously today. I can't really tell. It may just be that my brain has been steadily flooded with endorphins for the last 48 hours or so, resulting in a mild sensation of euphoria and disconnection, or it may be that it's just a nice day, or it may be that my mind feels suddenly, unexpectedly unburdened ( Read more... )

Famous broadcaster Tim Russert died unexpectedly today. It was strange to see television anchormen, who are usually so stern and formal, delivering their broadcasts in tears, with an audible quiver in their voices ( Read more... )

I am now walking with a limp ( Read more... )

That was a question I considered for somewhere between ten and fifteen minutes ( Read more... )

Tonight there was a man on the street with a sign that said, "Do you know where you'll be in 4 million years ( Read more... )

The county is mowing the ditches. It makes me happy to see the big green tractors crawling slowly up and down the road. The weeds and the grasses are getting tall. Things are growing again. Summer is upon is ( Read more... )

When I came out onto the street, there was an empty and withered-looking old man, crookedly slouched and fiercely expositing from one side of a wheelchair, "you'll kill anyone who's in your line of sight, I don't care if it's your own mother," and across the street a young woman exhorting two children to fight, "put her in a headlock, Daniel ( Read more... )

Even darkness is full of lights; the moon, the stars, the blinking fireflies, the flashing lightning of storms passing in the distance ( Read more... )

There's a time when something says to you, in no uncertain terms, "I'm hurt. Stop." You don't have to stop, but that's almost always what comes next if you don't: you stop, whether you like it or not. And then, something bad may happen ( Read more... )

There's a profound sense of being in two places at once, dwelling in a cool, dim, quietly humming box where time moves at an imperceptible crawl, while tremendous forces howl past outside, dynamic, grey, blinding. That's how I spent my day. The air conditioner murmured. My three coworkers sleepily propped up a monotone triangle of rumored " ( Read more... )