[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

Elias had a strange energy at bedtime last night, uncharacteristically so.  He did not lie down as he usually does, but stood at the foo...

The Department of Dance:  a satirical look at war Enemies dug in on opposing sides of a valley.  They are at an isolated location that is...

There is a hole in our neighborhood where a tree used to be. It anchored the corner and was the first tree my son ever climbed. ...

Standing on the shore of the sea while seagulls feed from my fingers, watching the waves lapping, lazy-like. The smells on the bree...

Conceal & carry a humble spirit over your heart keeping the safety off and a round chambered so that jostling causes it to go off ...

Last night I met up with an old friend I hadn't seen since my High School days.  She brought along two of her three sons and we g...

Not too long ago a story popped up on my Facebook newsfeed which noted that Kurt Vonnegut's boyhood home in Indianapolis was up for sale...

I have to steal time to write, to think, to feel. If I am not careful I begin to feel like a disembodied eye floating in the hea...

If nothing else, the beautiful backdrops and big skies  of baseball diamonds have filled my heart with good things. T...

A wall of wit holds back a sea of sadness (directing, misdirecting) wallowing in mud from the seep of derelictions (giving, w...

As midnight approaches the entire church goes dark.  All sources of light are extinguished and the people stand in complete b...

Tonight I will be attending the Orthodox service of Pascha which is known as "Easter" in the Western church.  It is a service ...

As time passes and memories fade only the heart  will forever keep what is most precious in this short life. ***

Carpenter bees roam  the dandelions and  purple-flowered weeds  of my backyard, startled  from their perch by  the wheels o...

I'm one of the parents who tends to come to my son's baseball practices and games to help out where I can without having to car...

Night has fallen and the darkness draws close looking for entrance into our home through crack or crevice. The kids are in bed and I...

In February of '91 I was flown down to Ft. Benning, Georgia to start Basic Training at twenty two years of age after talking to a recru...

The ego makes its demands and empties the soul of its substance like a carnivorous T-rex whose flesh has long le...

St. Hoosierus, play at the Hall for us winners... Overshadow us with your courtly might, drive the paint and spring into fli...

An empty space, long as a mile, deep as an ocean, that echoes with the sounds of wants that are mistaken for needs, end- lessly mu...