[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

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

Saturday, April 29, 2017

When it Rains

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when it rains it sometimes pours open windows shut the doors hear the sounds feel the floors more is less less is more ...
Saturday, April 22, 2017

The Step Between

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It was there and I could feel it,  the step between .   I had sensed its presence before  in moments of great fear or anx...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Brother's Keeper

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I was feeling the ennui of a late summer afternoon that can be particularly poignant in a fourteen year old boy living on the edge of a s...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Season of Darkness

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The sun broke the curve of the planet and momentarily blinded him in his slow descent through the outer layers of the atmosphere.  Below him...
Monday, March 27, 2017

The Accordion

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Breathing in, breathing out, to control the anxiety of a spinning clock that sends my children careening into the future, their wo...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Between Town & Country

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The neighborhood I grew up in sat on the southern boundary of a town of 2000 souls.  If you looked out our front picture window you woul...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Like a Small Boy

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In my clearer moments I feel like a small boy looking up into the eyes of God the Father and asking Him to tell me the story of how...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

A Goodbye to Coach Crean

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Poor Coach Crean has hoisted up his pants and tugged at his tie one last time in this Hoosier state of basketball-allness. I will mis...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

The Lack of Words

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It is the lack of words that frightens me. All those years of transformative experiences that I left to the capriciousness of memory....
Wednesday, March 08, 2017

The Prodigal

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I am the Prodigal Son, always have been and probably always will be, but the Father waits, my God, He waits and the thought of it ...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

Old Man Suds (2008)

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Old Man Suds was partial to spuds he would eat them when he was able. His sweater was bare no money to spare but he kept a very c...
Friday, March 03, 2017

Steel Sieve

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I am appalled at the thought that so much of what I see and think I understand is both everything & nothing, half-baked in a mid...
Monday, February 27, 2017

The Joke

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Sometimes I would just like to walk off the set. I respect the Director and all, but I'm not always  in for the story He is tell...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Remnants and Remains

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Remnants of St. Val's, head drooping and  hair half gone, to be  plucked and chucked  into the trash can of  an inadequa...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Small Town Dreams

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Most memories I have of the small town I grew up in are drenched in melancholy.  I don't know how else to describe it.  From a rel...
Friday, February 17, 2017

The Wall

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Death is like a black wall that stretches as high and as far as the eye can see. There is space for us to move about, to meet som...
Friday, February 10, 2017

The Double

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I couldn't believe it. It was me, but not just "me." It was me me. I was at a party with some friends, sipping a beer,...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Things Fall Together

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Things fall apart that are not sustained by love. God is love and without Him there is no speaking of what "is" let alo...
Saturday, February 04, 2017

Food for Thought

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He sat in the darkness indian-style in front of the open pantry door.  His flashlight lay next to him shining its light under the bott...
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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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