Your irregularity brings a halt to our weekend plans. And they were such good plans. We had all the details hammered down, but for a few strays: the kind that are most enjoyable to correct spontaneously. If we could have planned for this years ago, when the first murmurings began, the momentous could have been postponed ( Read more... )

In conversation about this summer's departures, a memory springs forth from the well, brushes the dust off its jacket, and walks in the door. Without knocking or common courtesy, it approaches and sits on my lap. At first it seems wholly unfamiliar. Recognition sets in, in thirsty gulps ( Read more... )

A flash of light allowing a momentary glimpse ( Read more... )

In reading and dreaming about proper digestion, the inescapable facts continue to pop their buck-toothed heads from their prairie dog homes. Always there is some new and glorious lesson to suffer and learn from ( Read more... )

Not all who are lost wander. We reached the summit last night and there are only an infinite number of directions left to go ( Read more... )

Almost like an old saying that never quite went out of style, it takes place again and again. The same disastrous results again, sometimes twice. Unavoidable, it looms right in front of us each time, and the only answer we know is straight into it ( Read more... )

Reach back to a state of life that hasn't existed for fourteen years. My range of motion feels somehow limited as my mind wrestles the fact that it is indeed limitless ( Read more... )

On searching ( Read more... )

A difference shows itself: first as a small crack spreading from end to end on the pavement; then widening, the earth opening a mouth. We argue lovingly about time well spent. One exhausted, the other energetic ( Read more... )

An imminent farewell draws close. It's as though I'm on a high plateau, watching the dust cloud grow larger as it approaches. The inevitable parting of several from one. Another edition in the transient nature of all things. This is nothing novel. All things that have been will cease to be. All things that have retired from existence shall be ( Read more... )