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"this is the world as best as I can remember it"

Sunday, June 29, 2014

The Heart's Eye

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Beauty blooms  full for  the heart's eye*  to see . *   ὁ νοῦς
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

A Gift from Dad

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I'm driving home from work listening to Terry Gross interview singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier on the radio.  She sings "Another T...
Friday, June 13, 2014

My Son's Closet

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My son's closet is as big as it needs to be, full of books, toys and misplaced articles of clothing. If one were to clear a space ...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Listening to Arvo Pärt's "Kanon Pokajanen"

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*** When I pass, time will no longer have a hold on me. My spirit will find this place, this circle of voices, inhabit it  and...
Monday, June 02, 2014

Times Square

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It's the antithesis of a monastery, assaulting the eyes and ears, trying to draw me out, but instead forcing me to retreat into my...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Rust in Peace

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*** Sometimes I tire of driving this tank peering out of the periscope's finite field of vision turning this torso lifting thes...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Irish Pub

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He sits with his back to me, blue jacketed and tieless, likely in his mid to upper fifties. I see his face because of the mirror at t...
Sunday, May 04, 2014

Ghost Train

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The F train wasn't running due to a malfunction and New Yorkers knew to find a different mode of transportation this particular S...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Inviting Vikings

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The Vikings came, but by invitation.  The peoples of what is now Northern Russian needed assistance to bring order from chaos and turned to ...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Being Kurt Vonnegut

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I don't know doodley squat and here is the proof.  We have been staying at the Resident's Inn on the canal in Indianapolis at leas...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

I am writing now

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For twenty seven years, since the age of eighteen, I have been walking along, not looking back, in order to deal with a certain amount of...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

The Curve

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It's a white balloon that floats from place to place through time and space.  The string remains firmly tied to my corporeal self, b...
Friday, March 21, 2014

The Gesture

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"WHAT'S YOUR INTERPRETATION?" , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. The giant hand gestures at the homeless man ...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Re-Entry

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Life is a fall from a great height, a star-heart birth and journey through endless space. Meandering in the void until picking up spe...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

Purple Foot

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Purple Foot , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** left foot forward right to the rear a quick counter-clockwise spin of the tor...
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

An Utter Fool

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*** My son is asleep in his bed and he is beautiful. He sleeps soundly, at peace, because love tucked him in. Watching him breathe...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Medical School Dropout - a cautionary tale

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Somewhere in the back of his muddled brain he seemed to recollect he'd been a medical student once, before the cognitive decline, t...
Friday, February 21, 2014

High Street

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Driving home 'round midnight on High Street steady rain falls putting a thick shine on every conceivable surface the lane li...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Watching the Wheels

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"People say I'm crazy, doin' what I'm doin'..." or so sings John Lennon, a man and his music that I've grown...
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Sunday, February 09, 2014

The Brothers K

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The Brothers K , a photo by []Aaroneous Monk[] on Flickr. *** I ask forgiveness for everything and from everyone without exception be...
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“Aaroneous Monk” brings to mind the image of a bumbling but well-meaning hermit who continually trips himself up in his overgrown beard as he attempts to battle evil in the world but, more often than not, forgets about the darkness in his own heart. It also sounds similar to the legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, but with a faux-Greek twist. Thelonious was known for being able to maintain two disparate rhythms going at the same time with his hands seemingly disconnected from each other. That kinda sums up my struggle...
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