I’m uncomfortable, this season of silence. The stomach acid I carry and hold deep inside wants release, but that would be violent. Emesis is a terrible thing. It is also no thing to let go slow, or the damage creeps up the esophagus, burns holes, damage to self. Hold it down, keep it in, swallow …
Tag Archives: life
On 44
Every day I’m dying, figuratively speaking. Ossifying. I’d like to think that I’m a vivacious operative of my own destiny, but that’s not exactly the case. If you don’t know what to make of that, you’re not 44. It does me no service to look back and see where I may have gone wrong, or …
Until the End
In 1991, German director Wim Wenders released his magnum opus “Until the End of the World“. It is the penultimate road movie. It follows this young woman Claire on her journey from self destruction to finding her purpose to being a saving angel. It shows that we really are connected. The scale of this film …
Vigil
No matter who you work for, your employer is that bad neighborhood kid that you let into your house because you really, really want your son to have friends. If you don’t constantly keep your eye on the kid, they will steal everything you have and come back for more. Don’t let them take everything.
Typographical Errors
The paragraph of my life is dotted with red-squiggled underlines, each one an automatically-detected error against predetermined protocol. Most of those squiggles are accidental typos that I’ve not had the chance to correct, or that I’ve decided to accept and move on. Some of those squiggles are intentional typos that I’ve laid down for raised-fist …