[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

Limitations, always limitations.  They can break your back.  With limited time and resources to pursue all the possible things I enjoy or ...

He saw her outline through an open fogged-over glass door in the frozen foods section of the grocery store.  Like a restless ghost she ru...

Shooting hoops with my son as the sun sets on our cul-de-sac suddenly realizing that even before I can pivot and shoot not even h...

It truly was a miracle, because love is a miracle.  I have no other way of explaining or understanding it.  Kevin had been struggling ...

I did not have to work this year on the 4th of July which provided for some nice unstructured time with Anya and we took advantage ...

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...