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

Saturday, August 29, 2015

The Long Bike Ride

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This was cut out of "Sleepless in Seoul"  because it did not involve insomnia or being homeless in the city.  It is simply a...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

This Hoosier Heart

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The  patter of rain synchronizes with the staccato sound of a bouncing ball the occasional swish of a well placed shot (rimle...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Sleepless in Seoul

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It was another weekend in Seoul with only a vague idea about how I would spend it.  It had become a routine of sorts to break up the monoto...
Monday, August 03, 2015

I Will Write a Novel Today

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I will write a novel today or at least a few short stories in an electronic record for future physicians to see. I hear stories of ...
Friday, July 24, 2015

A Creative Spark

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Elias built a house on Minecraft this past week and his excitement about it was uncharacteristically intense.  When he brought me into ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

A Soldier of Moral Certitude

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It is not my fault, the multitude of evils that beset this planet. I am a static being, untouching and untouchable, without malic...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Thunder Road

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When they came through the Rift, the rains came with them. Marko wasn't even close to the freak happening, but saw it on an inter...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015

A Simple Prayer

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A simple prayer  was offered up from a pure heart and the earth was changed as assuredly as if a hurricane  had swept a wide  p...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Be Brave

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So much of our lives spent in vain pursuits with rare glimpses behind the curtain. Rare because we reject them, resisting the ...
Sunday, July 05, 2015

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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Back in early 1991 I was in Basic Training on Sand Hill at Ft. Benning, Georgia, having withdrawn from Indiana Wesleyan University du...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Pain is Universal

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There are times I must leave this planet and speak with the spheres who know the pain of loneliness and isolation. They have ...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Picture Poems and Prose

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I have some good ideas for stories bouncing around in my head but commitments at home and work have put the kibosh on the time needed to wri...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

First Contact

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When the tower appeared in the midst of the city, it was the homeless who made first contact. The evacuations had begun almost immediatel...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

The New Canadians

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When the world ends families from the first nations will be gathered into the Toronto Tower whose concrete skin will fall away in s...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Somewhere in Southern Indiana

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Somewhere in Southern Indiana a basketball floats on a rain puddle at the bottom of a rusty wheelbarrow. High grass swallows it up on...
Friday, May 01, 2015

The Passing of Fr. Roman Braga

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What can one say of the passing of Fr. Roman?  He suffered terribly in a notorious prison camp during the time that Romania was ruled...
Monday, April 27, 2015

The Carpet Store

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The railroad tracks ran alongside my Dad's carpet store on the edge of our small town when I was a kid.  Heading north, they cut throu...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

She Stirs

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She had been sleeping for over an hour, about half way through her typical afternoon nap.  Sometimes a noise will awaken her and she will...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Spring Swings In

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*** Spring swings in once again with her impeccable taste and exquisite use of earthtones. Where there were dirt patches, she has exp...
Monday, March 30, 2015

Tin Rocket

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He stands in the front yard with eyes closed tight, arms pressed to his sides. He has closed out the world in quiet anticipation of ...
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A. Monk
“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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