[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

Sometimes it feels  like he’s  not there (just man-shaped  air) with a hole in his soul and space for despair.

  Like a good Ghibli movie a Japanese grocery store is full of mystery and wonder. The colorful packaging and  ubiquitous kanji is a feast  ...

  I had a dream where I am out and about in NYC reading a nonfiction war book a la Tim O'brien and end up running into Mel Gibson.  I...

  I dreamt I was a bird,  but not just A bird but a bird among birds. We sang our songs  sometimes alone  but usually together. Above the co...

I heard it come from a nearby hospital room as I sat at the nurse’s station writing a note.  It was a man’s voice that was a little gruff sa...

“Lenin Lurking”  was one of the first stories I wrote in my early 40’s when I’d decided that writing was on my bucket list.  I was really pl...

  Sitting on the front porch on a Saturday morning  reading Gene Wilder’s  “kiss me like a stranger -  my search for love and art”. It is pe...

  Yes, that’s me in the photograph, probably around 12 years of age.  I was one of the shortest kids in my class and that didn’t change unti...

  I believe that those who suffer most in this life will be the most radiant beings in the world to come.  It simply follows from the assert...

  An orangish yellow glow plays on the back of the waves as he emerges from the dark water under a moonless sky.  The soft wet sand pushes u...

  When life is normal we ply well worn tracks  of self-deception and comfort in the lie of who we think we are over and against who others a...

  She must find the sea having left her burdens  on the beach latent lives buried in the sand with great effort a cycle repeating endlessly ...

It was an unfamiliar highway at night and the rain was coming down in buckets.   Red lights slurred in an impressionistic swirl of movement ...

  This place more than any other  helps us see what is always present but seldom seen, or so I believe. Like a Midwesterner who has never be...

There was a time when things seemed relatively normal and we could ignore the accumulation of pollutants in  our environment (whether social...

A tin can came rolling across the road blown by the wind causing me to swerve to avoid crushing it on the way home from the hospital.   It g...

January 30, 2021 Tonight we made an ice cream run and since I was driving I popped in my Invisible Touch CD.  My favorites on there are not ...

  The trek through the wilderness had been interminable as day had frozen into night and night had thawed into day in an endless cycle.   It...

  I glanced out the window  and what did I see? A once small boy  now taller than me. ***

When humility awakens and the ego sleeps  the world opens up  like a beautiful book. What was once separated  is now connected in a  dizzyin...