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

Monday, November 18, 2019

Early Morning Library

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The basketball practice drop off for Elias this morning was a 6am affair that got me to work earlier than usual.  I am not typica...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Paperbacks & Prayers

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Paperback books are like prayer,  you can take them wherever you go.   There is never an excuse to be bored  when worlds are ...
Friday, October 18, 2019

A Beatles Remnant

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I grow old  because Lennon can’t. I carry on with a bit of his slant. Watching the wheels Prescribing the pills An ...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

The Waking Ones

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In the evening hours when others  have found a bed I have found a book, gladly trading  my sleeping dreams for w...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

The Vine & the Trellis

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Icon of the Root of Jesse - 16 th c. Michael Damaskinos This past Sunday the prescribed Gospel reading was the Parable of the ...
Wednesday, October 09, 2019

Hide & Seek

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I love to play hide and seek with the world where I hide so well that I cannot be found. I hunch down between my two ears and pee...
Monday, October 07, 2019

The McCarty Trinity

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After Kevin passed away I was gifted a trove of his sketches as well as pictures of some of his paintings to include a casual portrait...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

The Crow King

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He stood on the bridge  alternating his gaze  from water to skyline skyline to water and then up at the clouds his head in ...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Three Dreams, Same Scene, All She’s

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At least three different times I fell into a dream of a similar setting.  Each time it culminated dramatically, I woke up, and then r...
Tuesday, September 03, 2019

Letter to a Middle School Coach

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Hey Coach D, I feel I need to reach out tonight because of some concerns I have as a parent.  E is extremely frustrated tonight a...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Eating Myself

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The balding head The broken nose The trick ankle and Love of crows All so very ridiculous! The numberless books The...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Early Morning Apocalypse

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The horizon was set on fire by a tremendous fireball ostensibly ending any possibility of life on earth as he sat weeping in his ...
Friday, August 23, 2019

The Joker on a Jacket

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The Joker jacket was laughing at me, gifted by a friend in a dream whose meaning only Freud could guess at. It was just so ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

“a land called Honalee”

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It was the closest body of water to my childhood home at the southern edge of a small town in Indiana.  It could be seen from the h...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

The Stowaway

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He was a stowaway on an intergalactic freighter that had stalled just outside an arm of the Milky Way.  It was during the troubleshooting...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

A Walk in the Park

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“A walk in the park”  means something is easy and I guess it is my 8 year old  daughter holding  my hand, arms swinging ...
Friday, August 09, 2019

And Off I Ran

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I feel like it has been one of my major accomplishments this past year to get Elias to run Cross Country (XC) in middle school.  It is ...
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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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