[+]Aaroneous Monk[+]

  Ancient Beast of Impossible Derivation we call to your bones and lost sinews to reassemble into woeful vengeance.  Strike down our enemies...

  I’d like to put in a plug for writing.  It has been a lifesaver for me through some pretty dark times, especially in the past few years of...

  There is something undeniably powerful about a Girl Scout cookie thin mint.  Today I saw a nurse’s assistant come into the 6th floor work ...

In the search for grand vistas  or man-made wonders let’s not forget the beauty of us. Even if we wander through galleries of priceless pain...

  Jesus needs His sandwich  and I nearly forgot it in my haste to leave the hospital today. I got as far as the parking garage,  my driver’s...

  Is there a more clear-sighted observer of our modern American experience than Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.?  That is a rhetorical question. I couldn...

  Somewhere near Whitehall I saw an empty can crushed by the side of the road next to car-bought carrion for crows. And a colorful sign welc...

  I saw the cover of Neil Young’s  “Living with War” on a FB post yesterday.  The letters were  stenciled black on a paper sack. I bought my...

  My four year old daughter asked if I would listen to her heart and  so I flattened my large ear to  her chest and listened to it beat. ...

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. ***