Last night a new sound started. I opened the door and there was a hissing; I put everything on and went out into it. I wasn't cold, I felt strong. The gas station looked beautiful, I wanted to go in and come out with a lantern or have a backpack full of soup to give everyone in there. Heading back west I slipped on someone's driveway, biting my ( Read more... )

how am i gonna get on that other team

i can't have a cat because i'm too calm and grumpy and self-absorbed. how am i supposed to eat or pray or sleep or read or do push-ups or make things when there is a cat walking on my face and jumping out of holes. but now i have a cat. they chanted my name until i had a cat. i didn't think they could do that. dakotah just called about meeting ( Read more... )

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On Saturday I went to one of my favorite woods and went farther in then I had gone before and I stayed there until it got dark. When I'm in the woods I have to tell myself a lot of things so I know what's happening. "They made dead animals and locked up my lake." "The woods can not keep quite." "Deer are nature's horses". And I have to remember ( Read more... )

When I woke up I was still in the hospital and John McCain was still sitting in the chair beside my bed. He didn't know I was awake and he was leaning forward with his head in his hands, crying. I wondered if he was crying about his campaign or because I was in the hospital, and I wished I had bigger hands and that I was a detective or a famous ( Read more... )

o history of houses! o hermits! o hard drives!


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hoarders hiders fighters finders

I tried to read some plays written by a 25 year old but they sucked, maybe because all plays suck. I started reading Job after avoiding it for eight years and accidentally researching it all week but Job makes even less sense than Jesus. I wanted to read a book about talking animals but I've read Animal Farm too many times already and I'm at one ( Read more... )