[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

Imagination for a child is his intuitive grasp that what he sees and what he is told he sees is not all that there is and in this sense what...

  I will sorely miss seeing STATION ELEVEN for the first time.   After watching 9 of the 10 episodes alone I hooked my son into watching it ...

  Snow falls from unfathomable heights filling the sky with white points of light floating and flitting at the wind’s whim. Here in the sad ...

  I was heart broken to learn last night that Jim Forest has passed away.  Like my recent post about the passing of Dr. Sheila Hafter Gray I...

  NF is a rapper that has things to say.  His nom-de-rap is simply his initials which speaks to a lack of pretense.  Hello Nathan Feuerstein...

  A colleague from Washington DC informed me last night that my friend and mentor Dr. Sheila Hafter Gray passed away on Tuesday. She was my ...

  It’s on some of the on-ramps here in Columbus, Ohio.  They are stop and go lights on the top of a pole that alternate red and green to con...

  Sometimes there are just no words. You hear the keys clicking. Letters appear on the screen. But they are empty promises to understanding....

I have to say I’ve been a bit taken aback by the new Beatles documentary “Get Back”. It’s such an intimate look that conveys the feeling of...

An honest-to-goodness flying saucer appeared in the sky on my morning commute today, I kid you not.  It was a glorious glowing disk of myste...

  What they  were building  was a  better future  for those  who were  not-quite-human. ***

  The simple hydrogen engine was thrumming underneath him pulling him down into the stasis couch like a full-bodied hug.  Or was it pushing ...

“Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, both now and ever and unto the ages of ages” boomed in his h...

  I live here in the pain and sadness of triumphs then tragedies, of broken dreams and shattered expectations. I live here pushing through t...

  It is a strange and wondrous feeling   to look out one’s window on a quiet morning commute and be struck by  such rich oranges and deep bl...

  The golden glow  of the hospital  at night  passed on my  drive home  to the car’s right. I imagine seeing suffering eyes  without sight w...

  When I forget myself she reminds me who I am, always. ***

  It denotes something that is particularly deadly and has recently been tied to a new Covid variant, but truly it can be tied to a darkenin...

I feel like a lonely bird perched high on a wire seeing the world from  a unique perspective. Wave at me as you pass by. ***

  (or “A Spoonful of Sugar”) Can you say “Galápagos” with the proper accent? It is quite rewarding. You should try it. It’s almost as much f...